PYQ Vault · Paper 1 · Making of the Constitution
The making of the Indian Constitution is described as an attempt towards ‘social revolution’. 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
intent shaped the core design → Preamble (justice, liberty, equality, fraternity) — Fundamental Rights attack discrimination, untouchability, forced labour — Directive Principles seek welfare state, economic justice, education, social security — universal adult suffrage = revolutionary democratic step — reservations for SC / ST / backward classes = historical injustice addressed — Austin: a social document; Part III + Part IV = “conscience of the Constitution”
Body flow
revolution by constitutional, peaceful means, not sudden upheaval — Ambedkar: political democracy must rest on social democracy — persisting inequality can betray it
Counter-view
R1 description holds: a legal and moral framework for social route P ‘:. °.: transformation R2 revolution in design and intent; its completion lay in society, not in the text alone
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
