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Is social democracy a precondition for political democracy? Comment.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 10 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

On 25 November 1949 B. R. Ambedkar warned the Constituent Assembly that from 26 January 1950 India would enter "a life of contradictions" — one person, one vote resting on a social order denying one person, one value. Social democracy is not a temporal precondition but a sustaining one: political democracy can be installed on…

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  • Ambedkar: the missing base
  • The sequence runs the other way
  • What political democracy did to the social order
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