PYQ Vault · Paper 1 · Indian Political Thought
Discuss Ambedkar’s ideas on ‘annihilation of caste’.
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
caste = “division of labourers” (occupation by birth, denies choice/dignity) — rests on endogamy + purity-pollution + scriptural sanction (Vedas/Shastras/Manusmriti) — graded inequality — blocks united resistance, weakens nation — destroys public spirit /opinion /fraternity (“virtue caste-ridden, morality caste-bound”) — democracy impossible on such soil — inter-dining /inter-caste marriage useful but insufficient — socialists wrong to treat caste as secondary to class — cure: destroy religious sanction → “religion of rules” to “religion of principles” — law as disinfectant — casteless order on liberty- equality-fraternity
Body flow
partial reform (inter-dining, inter-caste marriage) vs root destruction of religion; class-only socialist view vs caste-centred analysis
Counter-view
Conclusion ri annihilation = ending the religious-ideological basis of caste, routes not softening it R2 replacement by casteless democratic order, “one man, one value” — Limaye’s Communist Manifesto parallel
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
