Partition refugees who arrived in India challenged the laws that various provincial governments enacted to " regulate " and " rehabilitate " them. By looking at one of the earliest and key cases concerning writs that emerged out of Sindhi refugee legal challenges to the Bombay government's land requisition scheme of 1947–48, this article suggests that partition refugees helped to shape the legal and constitutional landscape of newly independent India. www.academia.edu/35764223/NATION_MAKING_IN_PARTITIONED_INDIA_Refugee_Legal_Challenges_to_the_Bombay_Governments_Land_Requisition_Housing_Scheme