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Has caste system hindered democracy and adult franchise in India? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Caste System

India granted universal adult franchise in 1950 to a society organised on graded inequality. B. R. Ambedkar named the tension on 25 November 1949: India was entering "a life of contradictions", with one-person-one-vote in politics and inequality in social and economic life. The question has two defensible answers, and the honest position separates the quality…

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  • The case that caste has hindered democracy
  • The case that franchise has broken caste's monopoly
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