Ambedkar

Forgetting Partition: Constitutional Amnesia and Nationalism

Author(s): 
Kanika Gauba
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Economic & Political Weekly
www.epw.in/journal/2016/39/special-articles/forgetting-partition.html

History’s silence resonates in the textual silence of the Indian Constitution on the immense scale of violence and exodus accompanying the partition of the subcontinent, despite the contemporaneity of partition and constitution writing. Clearly discernible on a closer reading of the Constituent Assembly's debates are implicit influences of partition on key constitutional decisions, such as citizenship, political safeguards for religious minorities and provisions creating a strong central tendency in the union.

Social and Political Ideas of BR Ambedkar: liberalism in a creative mould

Bidyut Chakrabarty
Routledge
2018

Social and Political Ideas of BR Ambedkar: liberalism in a creative mould

Bidyut Chakrabarty
Routledge
2018

Ambedkar, Gandhi and Patel : The Making of India's Electoral System

Raja Sekhar Vundru
Bloomsbury
2017

Ambedkar and the Neo-Buddhist Movement

Wilkinson, Theodore S
Thomas, M M
Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society by the Christian Literature Society, Madras
1972

From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on Ambedkar Movement

Eleanor Zelliot
Manohar
1996

Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India

Gail Omvedt
Sage
1994

Destiny of Untouchables in India: Divergent Approaches and Strategies of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Shriram Nikam
New Delhi Deep & Deep
1998

Dr. Ambedkar: Life and Mission

Dhananjay Keer
Popular Prakshan
1990