{"id":1104,"date":"2026-08-09T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/discuss-the-contribution-of-the-dalit-struggle-to-establish-upsc-psir-2024-1607\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:20","slug":"discuss-the-contribution-of-the-dalit-struggle-to-establish-upsc-psir-2024-1607","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-contribution-of-the-dalit-struggle-to-establish-upsc-psir-2024-1607\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the contribution of the Dalit struggle to establish egalitarianism in Indian society during freedom movement."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 mainstream freedom = political independence -\u00bb Dalit struggle widens it \u2192 social equality becomes the real test of freedom R2 freedom hollow while caste enslaves \u2192 political Swaraj incomplete without social democracy \u2192 spine: egalitarianism as the meaning of freedom<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">reformers (Phule &#8211; Satyashodhak Samaj &#8211; education for lower castes \/ women; Narayana Guru &#8211; temple reform &#8211; \u2018one caste, one religion, one god\u2019) \u2192 Ambedkar&#039;s theory (political democracy without social democracy = contradiction; no nation without fraternity) \u2192 Ambedkar&#039;s action (Mahad Satyagraha 1927 &#8211; public water \/ civic rights; separate electorates &#8211; Poona Pact compromise; ILP + Scheduled Castes Federation &#8211; organised base) \u2192 forces mainstream nationalism to confront untouchability \u2014 feeds constitutional safeguards (abolition of untouchability, equality provisions)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Arun Shourie: Ambedkar&#039;s stand anti-national \u2192 rebutted by Omvedt: anti- caste movements more consistently democratic + nationalistic than the elite Congress<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 the Dalit struggle did not reject the nation \u2192 it asked the nation to rest on equality + dignity rR2 moved India from Bahishkrit Bharat (exclusion) to Prabuddha Bharat (equality + fraternity)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[30],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[57],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1104","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-30","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-indian-nationalism","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1104\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}