Transforming India Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy

Name: Transforming India Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy
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ISBN: 9780674050662

ISBN-10: 0674050665

ISBN-13: 9780674050662

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sumantra Bose

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A nation of 1.25 billion people composed of numerous ethnic, linguistic, religious, and caste communities, India is the world's most diverse democracy. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork and experience of Indian politics, Sumantra Bose tells the story of democracy's evolution in India since the 1950s--and describes the many challenges it faces in the early twenty-first century.Over the past two decades, India has changed from a country dominated by a single nationwide party into a robust multiparty and federal union, as regional parties and leaders have risen and flourished in many of India's twenty-eight states. The regionalization of the nation's political landscape has decentralized…

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List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Sumantra Bose is Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.



Introduction: The Uniqueness of India's Democracy



From Independence to 1989



The Transformation since 1990



Democracy in West Bengal



The Maoist Challenge



The Kashmir Question


Conclusion: The Future of India's Democracy


Notes


Glossary of Names and Terms


Acknowledgments


Index