Dr. Ambedkar and Empowerment-Constitutional Vicissitudes

The goal of the upliftment of backward classes has been uppermost in India’s national consciousness for more than a century now. One of the persons most intimately involved in the struggle for this upliftment was Dr. Ambedkar. As part of the celebration of his birth centenary year (1991-92), the University of Poona organised a seminar on Dr. Ambedkar’s legal philosophy and on the related contemporary thoughts. Some of the papers presented at the seminar, and some more contributions elicited from scholars of eminence, have been put together and published under the title, Dr. Ambedkar and Empowerment- Constitutional Vicissitudes. The essays concentrate on three topics: (a) Dr. Ambedkar and constitutionalism, (b) Dr. Ambedkar and social justice, and (c) Dr. Ambedkar and federal equilibrium. The book has thus three parts, with a foreword, a preface and an introduction added.