Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET October 2022 Political Science
Arrange the following books written by B.R. Ambedkar in ascending order. Choose the correct answer from the options below.
- 1. Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
- 2. The Annihilation of Caste
- 3. The Problem of the Rupee: Its Origin and Its Solution
- 4. Thoughts on Pakistan
A1, 3, 2, 4 ✓ Correct
B3, 1, 2, 4
C4, 1, 2, 3
D2, 4, 1, 3
Correct answer: (A) 1, 3, 2, 4 — The correct ascending order is 1, 3, 2, 4: Castes in India (1916), The Problem of the Rupee (1923), Annihilation of Caste (1936), Thoughts on Pakistan (1940).
Explanation
★The correct ascending order is 1, 3, 2, 4: Castes in India (1916), The Problem of the Rupee (1923), Annihilation of Caste (1936), Thoughts on Pakistan (1940).
★Castes in India came first, a paper Ambedkar presented at a 1916 anthropology seminar in New York and later published in 1917.
★The Problem of the Rupee followed in 1923, his doctoral thesis on the Indian currency question at the London School of Economics.
★Annihilation of Caste appeared in 1936 as his powerful undelivered speech against the caste system.
★Thoughts on Pakistan was published in 1945, examining the demand for Pakistan and India's political future.
★The list shows the range of his scholarship, from economics and anthropology to caste and constitutional politics.
★His LSE and Columbia training gave his economic writing unusual rigour for an Indian thinker of the time.
★Ambedkar earned doctorates from Columbia University in New York and from the London School of Economics.
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