Mr. Achyut Chetan
| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellow |
| Field of Specialization: | History |
| Name: | Mr. Achyut Chetan |
| Official Address and Designation: | Lecturer in English S.P. College, Dumka Jharkhand 814 101 |
| Telephone (O): | 91-6434-222246 |
| E-mail: | achyutchetan@gmail.com |
| Duration of Grant: | Nine Months |
| Project Title: | An Intertextual Analysis of the Constitution of India through A Study of the American Roots of Ambedkar's Constitutional Thought |
| Abstract of Project : | |
| As part of my research on the authorship of the Indian Constitution, its gender and caste-politics, I am studying the American roots of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's constitutional thoughts that developed during his studies at Columbia University. His engagement with questions of social exclusion and constitutional rights, I argue, began with his American experience and led him to practice a form of 'constitutional patriotism' as opposed to mainstream nationalism. Conventional constitutional studies catalogue a list of formal similarities between the American and Indian constitutions, and create a discourse of borrowings, hierarchy and derivatism. As an alternative, during my Fulbright-Nehru fellowship, I wish to extend the literary theoretical concept of 'inter-textuality' into constitutional studies, and understand Ambedkar's constituent power in drafting the text with the help of the concept of 'intratextualism' as developed in the context of the American Constitution. | |
| Academic Background : | |||
| Ph.D. | English | Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan | 2007– till date |
| M.A. | English | Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan | 2005 |
| B.A. (Hons.) | English | Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan | 2003 |
| Professional Background: | |||
| Lecturer in English | S.P. College, Dumka, Jharkhand | 2008—till date | |
| Guest Lecturer | Visva- Bharati, Santiniketan | 2007 | |
