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Comment: The purpose of the 42nd Constitutional Amendment was to make the economic and social democracy explicitly visible.

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  • 10 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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The claim is the amendment's own self-description: its Statement of Objects and Reasons proposed to spell out expressly the high ideals of socialism, secularism and the integrity of the nation. B. R. Ambedkar had warned that political democracy cannot last without social democracy at its base. The question is whether the 1976 "mini-Constitution" served that…

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