Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET July 2018 Political Science
Who said, in the context of the States Reorganisation Commission Report, 'The lambs are shorn of the wool' and 'They are feeling the intensity of cold'?
AJ. Nehru
BB.R. Ambedkar ✓ Correct
CR.N. Rau
DK.T. Shah
Correct answer: (B) B.R. Ambedkar — B.R. Ambedkar made this remark about the States Reorganisation Commission Report.
Explanation
★B.R. Ambedkar made this remark about the States Reorganisation Commission Report.
★He felt the report ignored the importance of smaller states in safeguarding the interests of minorities.
★With the abolition of separate electorates, minorities were left exposed, like lambs shorn of their wool in the cold.
★He criticised the report for pushing all speakers of one language into a single large state.
★He preferred linguistic diversity spread across several states rather than huge unilingual ones.
★He drew a sharp distinction between 'one state, one language' and 'one language, one state'.
★Nehru, B.N. Rau and K.T. Shah were figures of the constitutional era, but this image is Ambedkar's.
★Ambedkar set out these views in his 1955 tract Thoughts on Linguistic States.
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