Deciphering Sikh identity in Constitution

Chandigarh, March 5

Prof Paramjit Singh, renowned sociologist from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, delivered the Annual Shaheed Bhagat Singh Memorial Lecture organised by the Department of Political Science, PU, on Tuesday.

Deliberating on ‘The Making of the Indian Constitution and the Sikh Question’, he mapped the way in which the question of the Sikh community was addressed in the Constituent Assembly debates in four phases — from the founding of the Assembly in 1946 to the adoption of the Constitution in 1950.

He talked about the importance of key events of partition and Gandhi’s assassination in the way the demands of the Sikhs were articulated. — TNS