Abstract
India's Constitution of 1950, meticulously crafted under the visionary leadership of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as Chairman of the Drafting Committee, represents a pioneering fusion of justiciable Fundamental Rights enshrined in Part III (Articles 12-35) guaranteeing equality (Article 14), non-discrimination (Article 15), abolition of untouchability (Article 17), and freedoms (Articles 19-22) with non-justiciable yet morally binding Directive Principles of State Policy in Part IV (Articles 36-51), which mandate socio-economic justice through resource redistribution (Article 39), educational upliftment (Article 45), and protections for Scheduled Castes/Tribes (Article 46). This innovative hybrid framework, rooted in Ambedkar's philosophy of "constitutional morality" and social democracy as articulated in his November 25, 1949, Constituent Assembly speech, implicitly curtails parliamentary omnipotence under Article 368 by seeding judicial limits, fully realized through the landmark "basic structure" doctrine in Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala (AIR 1973 SC 1461), where a 13-judge bench (7:6) identified unamendable features including supremacy of the Constitution, republican democratic form, secularism, separation of powers, federalism, and dignity of the individual.
This doctrinal-comparative study deploys multi-dimensional analytical matrices to rigorously evaluate these frameworks across key parameters amendment mechanisms (India's 106 post-1950 alterations versus globals' stasis), federal balances (India's unitary-biased quasi-federalism against Germany's cooperative model), equity realization (caste-specific reservations and DPSP aspirations versus universal dignity or race redress), judicial guardianship roles, and crisis resilience (India's post-Emergency recovery via the 44th Amendment) unveiling Ambedkar's model's unparalleled superiority in fostering sustained equity flux without core erosion. Amid January 2026's global landscape of resurgent populism (e.g., U.S. post-2024 reelection dynamics), deepening inequalities, and pluralistic diversity challenges in the Global South from India's CAA/NRC debates to migration pressures in Europe this analysis affirms the Indian hybrid's adaptability as a beacon for constitutional endurance, influencing borrowings in Nepal (Article 274) and Bangladesh while underscoring imperatives for codifying basic structure features, harmonizing Parts III-IV, and reviving fraternity to fully operationalize Ambedkar's transformative social revolution.