Kishan Kumar Das, LL.M, Madhusudan Law University Deepika Palatasingh, LL.M, Madhusudan Law University ABSTRACT The Constitution of India was envisioned not merely as a treatise of governance, but as an emancipatory manifesto designed to dismantle deeply entrenched social hierarchies. However, traditional Indian jurisprudence has frequently defaulted to a paradigm of formal equality, often inadvertently perpetuating patriarchal and systemic inequities through ostensibly neutral legal...