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What did Dr. Ambedkar mean when “he said that in politics we will have equality, and in social and economic life we will have inequality”?

Class 8th NCERT - History Part-II 12. India After Independence

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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, chairman of the Drafting Committee, pointed out that political equality would have to be accompanied by social and economic equality. By political equality, he meant the universal adult franchise which gave equal rights to all citizens. By socio-economic inequality, he meant that the discrimination which was prevailing in India since ages and needs to be eliminated from the society through equal political rights regardless of their caste and income.

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