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1. See Mahendra Prasad Singh, ‘Political Arrival’ in Seminar, New Delhi, No. 243, November 1979: 12–18, a special issue on Harijans guest-edited by MPS.
2. See B. Shiva Rao et al (eds.), The Framing of India’s Constitution: Select Documents, Vol. I, New Delhi: Indian Institute of Public Administration, 1966: 287–310.
3. I must clarify that I use the term ‘basic structure of the constitution’ in a general sense, not in the sense of the judicially constructed constitutional theory of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution since the Supreme Court judgement in Keshavananda Bharati V State of Kerala in 1973 and further elaborated in various other judgements since then.
4. Constituent Assembly Debates: Official Report, New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, 1999, 3rd reprint (New Delhi: Jainco Art) Book No. 2:31.
5. Ibid., 32
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., p. 33
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 34
11. Douglas V Verney, ‘From Quasi-Federation to Quasi-Confederacy: Transformation of India’s Party System’, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Vol. 33, No. 4, Fall 2003.
12. M.P. Singh, ‘Foreword’, in Rekha Saxena, Situating Federalism: Mechanisms of Intergovernmental Relations in Canada and India (New Delhi: Manohar, 2006: 9–10.
13. CAD, op. cit.: 34.
14. Ibid: 34–35.
15. Ibid., : 36–37
16. CAD, Book No. 5, op. cit: 978.
17. Ibid : 979.
18. Shyam Singh Shashi, (ed.), Babasahem Dr. Ambedkar: Sampoorna Vangamay, Khand 2 (Trans. From English), New Delhi: Ministry of Welfare, Government of India: 208.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., pp. 185–87.
21. B. R. Ambedkar, Thoughts on Linguistic States (Aligarh: Anand Sahitya Sadan, 1989, reprinted).
22. Ibid., pp. 16–17.
23. Ibid., p. 17.
24. Ibid., pp. 10 & 18–19.
25. Ibid., pp. 12 & 22.
26. Ibid., p. 22
27. Ibid., p. 52.
28. Ibid., p. 52.
29. Ibid., p. 18.
30. Ibid., p. 44.
31. Ibid., pp. 53–55.
32. From my memory of reading Ambedakarana’ but cannot readily cite the source here.
33. Shyam Singh Shashi (ed.), Babasaheb Ambedkar, Sampurna Vangamay, Khand 2, op. cit., p. 194.