Bhartiya Bhasha, Siksha, Sahitya evam Shodh

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PARADOXICAL CONNOTATIONS OF “BACKWARD CLASSES”

    1 Author(s):  MANIPAL SANDHU

Vol -  5, Issue- 1 ,         Page(s) : 8 - 16  (2014 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/BBSSES

Abstract

The varied connotations and interpretations of by whom, to whom and how reservation be granted landed the drafting committee into a paradoxical situation over definition of “backwardness”. At the time of the drafting Article 16(4) (Article 10(3) of the Draft Constitution) there occurred a considerable discussion as to who were the ‘backward classes’ for whom a special provision for reservation in jobs was made in the constitution. Some members believed that this term meant only the ‘ex-untouchables’, some thought that it covered a broader group of people who were educationally, economically and socially backward regardless of their religion, race or caste and some believed that it included only the members of historically disadvantaged groups.

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  1.   Ibid. p.46.
  2.   Constituent Assembly Debates, Vol. I, pp.99-103.
  3.   Ibid.
  4.   Constituent Assembly Debates, Vol.IX, pp.696-697.
  5.   Ibid.
  6.   Ibid.
  7.   Ambedkar, States and Minorities, 1947, pp.17-26.
  8.   Ibid.
  9.   Ibid.
  10.   Ibid
  11.   AIR 1951 SC 226.
  12.   Article 15 (4) of the Constitution provides: “ Nothing in this Article or in clause (2) of Article 29 shall prevent the state from making any special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.”
  13.   Constitutional Assemly Debates, Vol.IX, pp 701-703.
  14.   Ibid.
  15.   Pandit Nehru Speech in the Constituent Assembly, cited from K.M.Munshi, Pilgrimage to the Freedom, Vol.I, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, 1967, p.209.
  16.   Ibid.
  17.   E.G.Thakur Das Bhargava, Parliamentary Debates, Part II, Vol.XII,9719, M.A. Lyyanger at 98/7.

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