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According to Ambedkar, democracy or state socialism is an agreement to social and economic changes for eradication of the inequalities and discrimination prevailing in the society. The purpose of the study was an attempt to understand the Ambedkar’s idea of state socialism. In an effort to achieve this goal, it was important to address his confrontation to all the main stream powers. However, why did he choose state-socialism in comparison to the scientific socialism of the Marxists? In what sense his ideas contribute towards achieving his main goal of annihilation of castes? The article also tried to examine how solid and practical the idea of state socialism was in principle. It examined that how the Indian socialists remain impractical in their economic interpretation of Indian society to establish the social democracy in the region.

Keywords

State-Socialism; Ambedkar; India

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