Aakash Singh Rathore‟s Ambedkar‘s Preamble is an enriching and appealing addition to the scholarship on Indian constitutional history.5 The book is premised upon challenging the established mainstream dissemination concerning the authorship of the Preamble (Nehru‟s Objective Resolution as a forebearer of the Preamble.) He argues that the most legitimate claim of authorship of the Preamble lies with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. He does so by (i) tracing the making of the Preamble (From July 22, 1946, to November 26, 1949), (ii) excavating the key preambular concepts (Justice, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Dignity, and Nation), and (iii) looking at them through Ambedkarite discourse (his life story and his corpus of work). Most of the available book reviews of the work are panegyric and have not critically engaged with the central argument of the book.
