Why Democracy Deepens : Political Information And Decentralization In India
By: Sadanandan, Anoop.
Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press 2017Description: ix, 192p.ISBN: 9781108435642.Subject(s): Politics And Government | Democracy -- India | Decentralization in GovermentDDC classification: 320.954 Summary: 'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected - was marked by social hierarchies and economic vulnerabilities. Decades of socio-economic changes since then would transform this old order, albeit unevenly across Indian states, to decisively shape the development of democracy in the country. Why Democracy Deepens relates how these socio-economic changes have deepened democracy in India beyond its topsoil. Drawing on his research in villages and states, Anoop Sadanandan explains how socio-economic changes have heightened the need for local voter information, and have promoted grassroots democracy in some Indian states. By exploring the pivotal political developments in the world's largest democracy, the book puts forward a theory of local democratization.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 320.954 REC-N National Seminar on Reconstructing democratic concerns in modern India | 320.954 REG; Regionalism in South Asia | 320.954 RET- Rethinking state politics in India: regions within regions | 320.954 SAD-W Why Democracy Deepens | 320.954 SAM-N Neo-liberal strategies of governing India | 320.954 SES-C Caliban : reflections on indian politics | 320.954 SHA-; Political instability in India |
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'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected - was marked by social hierarchies and economic vulnerabilities. Decades of socio-economic changes since then would transform this old order, albeit unevenly across Indian states, to decisively shape the development of democracy in the country. Why Democracy Deepens relates how these socio-economic changes have deepened democracy in India beyond its topsoil. Drawing on his research in villages and states, Anoop Sadanandan explains how socio-economic changes have heightened the need for local voter information, and have promoted grassroots democracy in some Indian states. By exploring the pivotal political developments in the world's largest democracy, the book puts forward a theory of local democratization.
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