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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Social and Legal-Justice Philosophy: An Indian Political Perspective

Author(s) Dr R N Tripathi
Country India
Abstract The ‘Justice’ as a poltical though in humans’s imagination always been a universal norms
for creating fair Society, and shaping political, social, and cultural life across civilizations.
While religion, morality, and law have historically provided frameworks for understanding and
implementing Justice, the concept itself resists confinement within these domains.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s philosophy offers a critical lens to examine paradox in the Indian legal
Justice system. Dr. Ambedkar belives, that true Justice could not be materlized within
traditional religious doctrines that sanctified inequality, moral codes that perpetuated social
hierarchies, or legal systems that sustained exclusion. His sharp observation that Justice in the
principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, which he envisioned as the ethical foundation of
democracy. therefore, it emerges as both a higher evaluative principle and a transformative
force shaped by but also standing in critique of religion, morality, and law. By examine the
very idea of Justice within Ambedkar’s Social legal thought, this paper analyse its role in
dismantling caste oppression, promoting human dignity, and guiding societies toward a more
egalitarian order
Keywords Normative Justice; B. R. Ambedkar’s Political Philosophy; Critique of Religion; Structural Inequality;
Field Sociology
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On 2025-08-23
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i04.54146

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