UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2016 · Q3(c) · 10 marks
How did Dr. B.R. Ambedkar try to seek a political solution to the problem of caste in India?
- Chapter
- Caste and Ethnicity after 1947
- Topic
- Ambedkar and the Dalit Movements
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