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Political democracy could not last unless social democracy lay at its base – B. R. Ambedkar. Comment.

  • UPSC 2017
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  • Indian Political Thought

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The line comes from B. R. Ambedkar's (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar) closing speech to the Constituent Assembly on 25 November 1949. It was the third of his conditions for keeping democracy alive in fact, not just in form, after holding to constitutional methods and refusing hero-worship. The statement is less a moral appeal than a prediction…

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  • Two Kinds of Democracy
  • The Union of Trinity
  • The Life of Contradictions
  • Testing the Claim
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion
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