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How does the Constitution of India promote education? Do you think that education can be a major instrument of social change? Clarify.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 20 marks
  • Visions of Social Change in India

The Constitution treats education not as a welfare service but as a condition of citizenship. B. R. Ambedkar warned the Constituent Assembly that political equality would collide with entrenched social and economic inequality, and schooling was the chief instrument the framers offered against that contradiction. The constitutional promotion of education is therefore wide; whether education…

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