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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. First published by HarperCollins in August 2007. [1] [2] The book covers the history of the India after it gained independence from the British in 1947. [1] A revised and expanded edition was published in 2017. [3]
The Argumentative Indian is a book written by Nobel Prize winning Indian economist Amartya Sen. It is a collection of essays that discuss India's history and identity, focusing on the traditions of public debate and intellectual pluralism. Martha Nussbaum says the book "demonstrates the importance of public debate in Indian traditions generally."
Democracy in India is the largest by population in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Elections in India started with the 1951–52 Indian general election . India was one of the first few countries in the world which adopted universal adult franchise right from independence, giving women and men equal voting rights.
Cosmopolitan democracy, also known as global democracy or world federalism, is a political system in which democracy is implemented on a global scale, either directly or through representatives. An important justification for this kind of system is that the decisions made in national or regional democracies often affect people outside the ...
Swaraj is a 2012 book by the Indian social activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, who credits several people with writing it.Published in several languages, including English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Marathi and Malayalam, the book questions the existing democratic framework in India and proposes a way how the people of India can achieve true Swaraj (self-rule).
Northern Book Centre. ISBN 978-81-85119-39-7. Borgström, Bengt-Erik (1980), The patron and the panca: village values and pancayat democracy in Nepal, Vikas House, ISBN 978-0-7069-0997-5; Stone, Linda (1988), Illness Beliefs and Feeding the Dead in Hindu Nepal: An Ethnographic Analysis, E. Mellen, ISBN 978-0-88946-060-7
The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture And The Nation is non-fiction book written by Ramon Magsaysay Award-winning journalist Ravish Kumar [2] on India's democracy and its backsliding under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution.India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the president of India is the head of state & first citizen of India and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government.