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Discuss Ambedkar’s ideas on ‘annihilation of caste’.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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Annihilation of Caste (1936) was written by B. R. Ambedkar (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar) as a presidential address for the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore. The hosts withdrew after reading it, so he published it himself. The title is deliberate: caste was to be destroyed, not reformed.

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