Caste, Ambedkar, and Contemporary India

Making of the Constitution > Page 1

A Constitutional History of India 1600-1935 / Keith Arthur Berriedale. London : Methuen & Co., 1936.

One of 1,000 photolithographic reproductions of the Constitution of the Republic of India, which came into effect on January 26, 1950, after being approved by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949. The original of this elaborate edition took nearly five years to produce. It is signed by the framers of the constitution, most of whom are regarded as the founders of the Republic of India. Page 453 has the signature of B.R. Ambedkar.

A criticism of Montagu-Chelmsford proposals of Indian constitutional reform / Pandit Madan Malaviya. 1918.

Documents and extracts illustrative of the British period of Indian history. vol. 1 (Mainly constitutional) Calcutta : R. Chatterji, 1912.

Indian Constitutional Documents, vol. ii / Panchanandas Mukherji. Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co., 1918. Includes the Government of India acts, 1915 & 1916; including references to older statutes, together with an introductory account of the present working constitution of British India and a brief preliminary study of English political institutions.

Report on Indian constitutional reforms. London : HMSO, 1918

 

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