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What have been the functions of democracy in India ? Has democracy been successful in eliminating some of the traditional social inequalities ?

  • UPSC 2000
  • Politics and Society in India

Democracy in India was adopted not merely as a method of choosing rulers but, in B. R. Ambedkar's phrase, as an instrument for producing drastic change in the social and economic spheres. Robert K. Merton's distinction between manifest and latent functions is the sharpest way to audit what it has actually done — and then…

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  • Manifest functions
  • Latent functions
  • Has it eliminated traditional inequalities?
  • Conclusion

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