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How did Dr. B. R. Ambedkar try to seek a political solution to the problem of caste in India?

  • UPSC 2016
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

B.R. Ambedkar approached caste primarily as a problem of political power rather than one soluble by moral appeal or gradual reform alone — his lifelong project was to secure the Depressed Classes guaranteed political representation and constitutional safeguards independent of caste-Hindu goodwill.

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  • Separate Electorates and the Round Table Conferences
  • The Poona Pact and the Break with Separate Electorates
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