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Discuss B.R. Ambedkar as a wise democrat.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Caste System

B. R. Ambedkar's claim to be a wise democrat rests less on his advocacy of the vote than on his refusal to mistake the vote for democracy. He read a society of graded inequality as hostile soil for representative institutions, and answered it with both a sociology and a constitutional design.

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  • Democracy as a way of associated living
  • Social democracy before political democracy
  • Constitutional morality, and the warnings
  • Design: rights, remedies and representation
  • Democracy beyond the vote
  • An assessment
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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