Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit Future

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This book contains a masterly survey of the problem of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes. The author has summed up the current thinking on the subject by the Supreme Court of India and other public men interested in this subject. He has also given practical suggestions for tackling the problem of reservation which is facing the country today. He has pointed out the pitfalls and also the way out.

The author has described in detail the miserable condition of the so-called untouchables and depressed classes in India and the remarkable work done by Dr. Ambedkar for their uplift. He has also discussed in detail the contribution of Dr. Ambedkar to Indian social, political and constitutional thought in Indian Polity.

It is a thought-provoking work for thinkers, parliamentarians, social reformers and the Government.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR V R Krishna Iyer

V.R. Krishna Iyer was born in 1915 at Palghat in Kerala State. He was a Cabinet Minister of the Government of Kerala during 1957-58. He became a Judge of the Kerala High Court in 1968 and a Member of the Law Commission of India in 1971. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 1973 to 1980. He believes that law must serve society, particularly the unprivileged. He moulded law to give justice to the poor. Shri Iyer is in the forefront of those who are working for a better world. He has a mission in life and for its fulfilment, he is busy day and night. The subject which is dearest to him is social justice to achieve which he has spent the whole of his life.