Volume : 9, Issue : 2, FEB 2023

DR. B. R. AMBEDKAR'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE MODERN INDIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM

LIPIKA PAL

Abstract

B. R. Ambedkar was great intellectual and social reformer. In his early stage of career, he realized the plight of untouchables. The political philosophy of Ambedkar assists in renegotiating the crisis of western political theory in particular and leading the fights of the people in general. Ambedkar has arisen as a major political philosopher with the rise of Dalit movement in contemporary times. He emerged on the Indian socio-political area in early 1920s and remained in the head of all social, economic, political and religious efforts for up liftment of the lowest layer of the Indian society called untouchables. Besides, he made an outstanding contribution as an economist, sociologist, legal illuminator, educationist, writer, parliamentarian, and advocate and human-right activist. He was an iconoclast and researcher, who effectively mobilized, energized, unified the untaught Indians against all social and political suppressions and oppressions. This study encapsulates the political philosophy and its relevance to the modern indian political system of Ambedkar.

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