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B R Ambedkar’s Multiple Consciousness and the Framing of the Indian Constitution

ICL journal, 2023
This article will analyze the way in which B R Ambedkar's lived experience and jurisprudential commitments framed the discursive structure of the Indian Constitution and reformulated prevailing conceptions of liberal constitutionalism to reflect the ...
Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox
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Anticipating the Threat of Democratic Majoritarianism: Ambedkar on Constitutional Design and Ideology Critique, 1941–1948

Studies in Indian Politics, 2023
This article analyses B. R. Ambedkar’s works written between 1941 and 1948, and it discerns a central set of concerns and arguments in this otherwise diverse corpus.
R. Govind
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“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination

American Political Science Review
This article presents a new theory of majoritarian domination drawn from Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s critique of majoritarian tyranny during the decades preceding British India’s decolonization. Ambedkar’s critique of British colonial pluralism and Congress-
V. Naresh
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Ambedkar's Political Philosophy

This study is organized around a set of key concepts that Ambedkar, the Indian thinker and leader of the socially marginalized, proposed to reconstruct public life, factoring in oppression and degradation.
Valerian Rodrigues
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Ambedkar's Agonism

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2019
Abstract In focusing primarily on B. R. Ambedkar, this essay will reconstruct and interpret the work on hostility and antagonism that was central to his political thought and writings. As a thinker, Ambedkar remained singular in taking account of the full and potential measure of violence predominantly in caste relations, but also beyond,
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Dr Ambedkar’s idea of human rights and its scope of teaching in social work education: from text to context

Social Work Education
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Ambedkar henceforth) is not merely known as the chief architect of the Indian constitution, social activist, philosopher, and social reformer but also as a great human rights defender in India.
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Ambedkar as a political philosopher

2021
This chapter argues that Ambedkar his writings is engaged, among others, with such questions as the mode of reproduction of a political community made of equal and free citizens; the meaning of enablement to people who are caught in complex marginalities; the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism; justice and preferential considerations;
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Ambedkar, Tarde, and the Social

2023
Abstract This chapter explores how Ambedkar’s early essay, ‘Castes in India’ articulates a conception of the social that draws on and modifies the arguments made by Franz Boas and Gabriel Tarde. It argues that the essay criticizes the concept of race while also distancing itself from what was then usually posed as the alternative to race—
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Ambedkar’s Legacy

Abstract This chapter attempts to take stock of some broad aspects of Ambedkar’s legacy, which has been significantly shaped by history as well as contemporary social, economic, and political forces. The spread of education among Dalits and rise of a Dalit middle class that extended to constitute a sizable Dalit diaspora abroad; a ...
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

2021
This chapter looks at some of Dr Ambedkar’s major ideas and contributions, including the Hindu social order, as he started his academic journey from critically analysing caste and its manifestation in different forms. His passion for democracy, equal rights to women, nation and nationalism, constitution-making, etc.
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