PYQ Vault · Paper 1 · Indian Political Thought
Political democracy could not last unless social democracy lay at its base – B.R. Ambedkar. Comment.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
social democracy = way of life (liberty + equality + fraternity, inseparable) — trinity cannot be split (liberty w/o equality = rule of few; equality w/o liberty = no initiative; both need fraternity) + caste destroys fraternity at root — contradiction from 26 Jan 1950: one vote vs one value (political equality + social/economic inequality) — “top-dressing” on undemocratic soil — preconditions (no glaring inequality, constitutional morality, public conscience, minority protection) — society oppresses deeper than state — rights need moral/social base, not law alone
Body flow
same Constitution = instrument to convert political into social democracy (FRs, DPSP, reservations); Granville Austin — “social document” → political form can build the social base, not merely wait for it
Counter-view
R1 caution holds — one vote must steadily become one value dete R2 democracy lasts only as its social base deepens → an unfinished task
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
