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@article{207918,
        author = {Triza Pritam Mazinder Baruah and Dr. Priti Rupa Saikia},
        title = {DISCUSSION ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE FATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION WITH RESPECT TO UNIFORM CIVIL CODE},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {3},
        pages = {3315-3320},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=207918},
        abstract = {The Uniform Civil Code has remained one of the most intensely debated constitutional aspirations in India since the framing of the Constitution. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Chairman of the Drafting Committee and widely regarded as the principal architect of the Indian Constitution, played an important role in defending the inclusion of the provision relating to a Uniform Civil Code during the Constituent Assembly Debates. His perspective reflected an attempt to reconcile religious freedom and cultural diversity with equality, social reform, national integration and individual liberty. Ambedkar rejected the proposition that the existence of different personal laws necessarily placed them beyond the legislative competence of the State. He drew attention to the extensive areas of civil life that had already been subjected to uniform legislation and questioned why matters such as marriage and succession should permanently remain outside legal reform. At the same time, his intervention displayed constitutional pragmatism: he contemplated the possibility that Parliament could initially make a Uniform Civil Code applicable to persons who voluntarily chose to be governed by it rather than immediately imposing it upon every citizen. This article examines Ambedkar's position in the light of the Constituent Assembly Debates and his broader constitutional philosophy. It argues that his defence of a Uniform Civil Code was not merely an argument for formal uniformity, but part of a larger vision in which law was an instrument of social transformation while constitutional democracy remained attentive to India's plural society.},
        keywords = {Uniform Civil Code, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Constitution of India, personal laws, gender justice, equality, religious freedom, Constituent Assembly Debates.},
        month = {August},
        }