Rehan Pande, Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur ABSTRACT For nearly three decades, India’s arbitration regime has promised speed and finality, yet it has often reproduced the very delay and judicial entanglement it was designed to avoid. This paper surveys the legislative and institutional project to transform Indian arbitration from an ad hoc, court-dependent model into a truly institutional one, in which specialized centers, rather than individual arbitrators and overburdened...