{"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":"2026-08-12T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:53:53","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>\u2014 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\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> mainstream freedom = political independence <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Dalit struggle widens it <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> social equality becomes the real test of freedom<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> freedom hollow while caste enslaves <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> political <i>Swaraj<\/i> incomplete without social democracy <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> spine: egalitarianism as the meaning of freedom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>reformers (<b class=\"pq-sc\">Phule<\/b> \u2013 Satyashodhak Samaj \u2013 education for lower castes \/ women; <b class=\"pq-sc\">Narayana Guru<\/b> \u2013 temple reform \u2013 \u2018one caste, one religion, one god\u2019) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Ambedkar<\/b>\u2019s theory (political democracy without social democracy = contradiction; no nation without fraternity) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Ambedkar<\/b>\u2019s action (Mahad Satyagraha 1927 \u2013 public water \/ civic rights; separate electorates \u2013 Poona Pact compromise; ILP + Scheduled Castes Federation \u2013 organised base) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> forces mainstream nationalism to confront untouchability <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> feeds constitutional safeguards (abolition of untouchability, equality provisions)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b class=\"pq-sc\">Arun Shourie<\/b>: Ambedkar\u2019s stand anti-national <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> rebutted by <b class=\"pq-sc\">Omvedt<\/b>: anti-caste movements more consistently democratic + nationalistic than the elite Congress<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> the Dalit struggle did not reject the nation <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> it asked the nation to rest on equality + dignity<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> moved India from <i>Bahishkrit Bharat<\/i> (exclusion) to <i>Prabuddha Bharat<\/i> (equality + fraternity)<\/p>\n<\/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":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1104\/revisions\/4698"}],"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}]}}