Thinker
B. R. Ambedkar
B. R. Ambedkar is central to 40 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2025 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
40Questions
2009–25Years tested
I & IIPaper
8Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside B. R. Ambedkar
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
annihilation of caste 12graded inequality 9identity politics 6purity and pollution 5social mobility 5cultural assertion 4social exclusion 4untouchability 4affirmative action 3constitutional morality 3dalit assertion 3equality of opportunity 3identity assertion 3political mobilisation 3social justice 3atrocities and violence 2atrocity and violence 2counter-culture 2
Where B. R. Ambedkar appears in the syllabus
Every question on B. R. Ambedkar
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2025
- How Dalit movements in India have facilitated their Identity formation? Analyze.
- In what respects have the constitutional provisions changed the socio-economic and political conditions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India? Critically examine.
- Which measures would you suggest for preventing caste conflicts in India ? Justify your argument.
2024
2022
2021
2018
2017
- Compare the pressing problems of a dalit poor family living in an urban slum with a similar type of family living in a rural setting.
- How have the struggles against untouchability changed their forms and perspectives from Gandhian to Ambedkarite positions?
- What, according to you, are the two fundamental axes of social discrimination in Indian society? Are they changing?
- Write a note on Education and Equality in India.
2016
- Anti-Brahmanical movements during the colonial period
- Different forms of Dalit assertion
- Empowerment through ‘Right to Education’
- Examine the role of protest movements in changing the status of Dalits in India.
- How has B.R. Ambedkar identified the features of caste system? How is it different from the mainstream treatment of caste features?
2015
2014
- Dynamics of Contemporary Dalit movements
- How do caste and class come together in creating the category of extreme poor?
- What do you understand by social movement? How has the mobilization by Scheduled Castes helped them in constructing a new identity?
- Write some of the important social reforms in India for the removal of untouchability.
2013
2011
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