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The Foresighted Ambedkar

The Foresighted Ambedkar

Ideas That Shaped Indian Constitutional Discourse

Anurag Bhaskar
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‘A great man in Indian politics’
—Dr Ram Manohar Lohia on Dr Ambedkar

Dr Ambedkar’s role in the cause of social emancipation has been researched and written about extensively. His part in the drafting of the Indian Constitution between 1946 and 1950 has also received considerable attention.

In The Foresighted Ambedkar, Anurag Bhaskar argues that India’s Constitution was drafted not just between 1946 and 1950 but over the course of four decades. Dr Ambedkar was the only person to have been involved at all the stages related to the drafting of the Indian constitutional document since 1919. These stages bear the imprint of his contribution and role.

This book seeks to focus on Dr Ambedkar’s influence on the Indian constitutional discourse from 1919, when he entered public life, until the actual writing of the Constitution and even beyond. Covering the different constitutional moments as and when they happened, it highlights Dr Ambedkar’s role in those moments.

A seminal work of intellectual and constitutional history, this volume demonstrates why Dr Ambedkar is rightly called the ‘Father of the Indian Constitution’.

Imprint: India Viking

Published: Apr/2024

ISBN: 9780670097401 (Hardback)

Length : 400 Pages

MRP : ₹799.00

The Foresighted Ambedkar

Ideas That Shaped Indian Constitutional Discourse

Anurag Bhaskar

‘A great man in Indian politics’
—Dr Ram Manohar Lohia on Dr Ambedkar

Dr Ambedkar’s role in the cause of social emancipation has been researched and written about extensively. His part in the drafting of the Indian Constitution between 1946 and 1950 has also received considerable attention.

In The Foresighted Ambedkar, Anurag Bhaskar argues that India’s Constitution was drafted not just between 1946 and 1950 but over the course of four decades. Dr Ambedkar was the only person to have been involved at all the stages related to the drafting of the Indian constitutional document since 1919. These stages bear the imprint of his contribution and role.

This book seeks to focus on Dr Ambedkar’s influence on the Indian constitutional discourse from 1919, when he entered public life, until the actual writing of the Constitution and even beyond. Covering the different constitutional moments as and when they happened, it highlights Dr Ambedkar’s role in those moments.

A seminal work of intellectual and constitutional history, this volume demonstrates why Dr Ambedkar is rightly called the ‘Father of the Indian Constitution’.

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Paperback / Hardback

Anurag Bhaskar

Anurag Bhaskar is a legal scholar whose work spans constitutional law, social justice, access to justice, and court administration. He is an Adjunct Professor at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, where he oversees the activities of the Dr B.R. Ambedkar Chair on Constitutional Law and Social Inclusion. He is also Adjunct Faculty at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, and Affiliate Faculty at the Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School. He previously served as Additional Registrar and Director of the Centre for Research and Planning at the Supreme Court of India.

Bhaskar holds an LLM from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Law from O.P. Jindal Global University. He has held research fellowships at Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford and has presented his research at Melbourne Law School. A recipient of the Bluestone Rising Scholar Award from Brandeis University, his scholarship has been cited in three judgments of the Supreme Court of India. He is a co-founder of CEDE, which has arranged more than 500 internships for law students from marginalized communities since 2021.

Bhaskar is the author of The Foresighted Ambedkar: Ideas That Shaped Indian Constitutional Discourse (Penguin, 2024), which was among the final recommendations for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2025 and on the final shortlist for the Kalinga Literary Festival Book Awards 2025 in the English Debut category. He is also co-editor of Justice for the Nation: Reflections on 75 Years of the Supreme Court of India (Thomson Reuters, 2024).

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