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![]() ![]() He goes on to say that Rau’s working draft had used the term ‘Hindustani’ but that the Drafting Committee had made an important change in keeping with the decision reached in the Congress Party’s deliberations and used, instead, the term ‘Hindi’. Ambedkar thought ‘Hindustani should be the language of the Union and of the units’. Rau, who, as constitutional adviser, had prepared the working draft for the Drafting Committee to consider and take forward. ![]() Rajendra Prasad, and in Rao’s case to the papers of his elder brother, B.N. ![]() Both had unprecedented access to public and private archives: in Austin’s case to the collection of Dr. Every student of law has read these books. ![]() Shiva Rao’s magisterial The Framing of India’s Constitution that was published in 1968. The first is Granville Austin’s classic, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, which first appeared in 1966. The answers are to be found in two books, both of which are considered authoritative as far as describing the process of Constitution-making was concerned. This remark suggests something to the amendment other than what Justices Bobde and Swaminathan are implying. Ambedkar testily saying, “What is wrong with Sanskrit”, when questioned by the PTI the previous evening about his initiative. Many newspapers of Septempublished news of this amendment. ![]()
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