Democracy in India : current debates and emerging challenges / edited by Lancy Lobo, Jayesh Shah
- Bib ID:
- 7504267
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Indian Democracy : Its Strengths and Weaknesses (2016 : Vadodara, India)
- Description:
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- Delhi, [India] : Primus Books, 2017
- ©2017
- xxi, 197 pages : graphs, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9789384082949 (hardback)
- 9384082945 (hardback)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9789386552372 (POD)
- 938655237X (POD)
- Summary:
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"In an attempt to understand the maturity of democracy at the grass roots, the Centre for Culture and Development (CCD), Vadodara, undertook a longitudinal study of elections. As an extension of this interest, the centre organized a national seminar, 'Indian Democracy : Its Strengths and Weaknesses'. This volume brings together select papers from the seminar" -- Acknowledgements.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Debating democracy in India
- 3. India - a 'flawed' democracy
- 4. Democracy, nationhood and the accommodation of ethnic conflicts in India
- 5. Democracy, diversity and discrimination in India
- 6. Indian democracy at the grass roots
- 7. Political awareness and participation in the Gujarat Assembly elections, 2012
- 8. Judicial activism in India
- 9. Judicial review of legislative actions
- 10. Media and democracy
- 11. Indian democracy in crisis
- 12. Prevailing discrepancies between economic growth and development
- 13. Deliberately misleading
- 14. Social movements
- 15. Civil society and its paradoxial consensus.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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