Caste in Indian Politics, and Role of Dr B.R. Ambedkar in Indian Politics of Casteism

Politics is an ineluctable all-embracing activity through which we preserve and amend the general rules under which they live. Indian democracy being the largest in the world, has survived from the major challenges posed by widespread illiteracy, poverty, secessionism and communalism with several problems that have felled the fledgling democratic institutions of so many post-colonial societies and since Indian society has being highly segmented along the lines of castes, religion, class etc., it eventually prevents the true working of Parliamentary democracy and puts a glaring feature of Indian politics which is largely shaped by the cultural diversity, social, ethnic, caste, community and religious pluralism, known tradition of the countrywide movement with a unique contrasting approach of party

Indian politics is caste ridden politics; caste is long in the tooth and notable foundation of social stratification in India and interestingly we see some specific castes to be given superior place with social and economic entitlements that were denied to the lower caste of people. The basic objective of this paper is to analysethe caste in Indian politics and role of B.R. Ambedkar as social reformer and leader of downtrodden classes, how it become a major cause of serious concern and become obstacle to the national integration. This paper concludes with suggestion to overcome these challenges.