Breaking myths on #ConstitutionDay, .
1. Ambedkar didn't write the Constitution, in fact he later disavowed it.
2. The Constitution was largely a cut and paste of British India Act of 1935 which Nehru had called "a charter of slavery."
3. Who wrote it?
1. Ambedkar didn't write the Constitution, in fact he later disavowed it.
2. The Constitution was largely a cut and paste of British India Act of 1935 which Nehru had called "a charter of slavery."
3. Who wrote it?
So Sir Benegal Rau wrote the Constitution. He was a dyed in the wool Angrezi bureaucrat, knighted for his loyalty to the British Empire. He was the main drafter, Ambedkar was chair of Drafting Committee, but not many changes were made to Rau's draft by the Committee.
An excerpt from the talk above on why the @narendramodi govt's obsession with the "formal economy", without fixing the oppressive English colonial state, is a major reason for the slowdown.
@narendramodi The other myth is that Gandhi and "non-violence" gave India freedom. Here is Ambedkar himself dismantling like. He says at some point Attlee will reveal, and he did later on, that Gandhi had "minimal" role in independence. Prescient.
@narendramodi 1947 was a transfer of power from the British to a colonized elite. It is a tragedy that the BJP continues to treat the Constitution as a "Holy Book." Along with treating the Colonial State and English language as sacrosanct. Whither cultural nationalism?
