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🇮🇳 Ashutosh from Satya Hindi reflects on the resilience of India’s democracy over the last 75 years. While many nations that gained independence around the...
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Jun 2, 2022 · India's diverse population and sprawling geography has long sown doubts around how long democracy in India would survive, even as the country marks its 75th ...
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- Carnegie Endowment
Mar 9, 2023 · Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, during his lecture at Cambridge University, said the institutional framework required for democracy is becoming constrained and the...
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- India Today
Aug 15, 2022 · Today marks 75 years since India emerged from British rule. That freedom began with bloodshed, the partition of Colonial India into two new nations and mass migration across their shared border ...
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- Can Indian Democracy Be Saved?
To evaluate India’s democratic downgrading, it is first necessary to define democracy, both because adjudicating the debate over India’s democratic decline rests on conceptual clarity and because democracy undoubtedly connotes normative legitimacy. Democracy is a concept that instantiates a system of government that is “of the people, by the people...
India’s democracy was never very high-quality. The formal exercise of autonomous, competitive elections with a broad range of civil liberties—while it did translate into a mass poverty-alleviation program and the world’s largest affirmative-action program—always had plenty of shortcomings. But democracy also had a built-in autocorrect feature, whic...
Democracy in India, as elsewhere in the world, is not today dying through a military coup or the dramatic, coordinated mass arrests of opponents. Instead, autocrats have learned to talk democratically and walk autocratically, maintaining a legal façade of democracy while harassing opposition and shrinking space for loyal dissent. While India’s form...
Jun 5, 2024 · Even if Mr Modi completes a full term, a fourth one is now less likely. ... he would ensure that India’s government was stable—and he would usher in a new sort of Indian politics, capable of ...
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Aug 1, 2024 · The fate of democracy in India carries consequences for the rest of the world. Arresting the global rise of autocracy will likely not be possible without a return to democracy in India. As the ...
