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How India became democratic : citizenship and the making of the universal franchise

Shani, Ornit, author

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\"How India Became Democratic explores the greatest experiment in democratic human history. It tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of universal adult franchise in the world's largest democracy. Ornit Shani offers a new view of the institutionalisation of democracy in India, and of the way democracy captured the political imagination of its diverse peoples. Turning all adult Indians into voters against the backdrop of the partition of India and Pakistan, and in anticipation of the drawing up of a constitution, was a staggering task. Indians became voters before they were citizens - by the time the constitution came into force in 1950, the abstract notion of universal franchise and electoral democracy were already grounded. Drawing on rich archival materials, Shani shows how the Indian people were a driving force in the making of democratic citizenship as they struggled for their voting rights\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Suffrage India History. / Representative government and representation India History. / Citizenship India History. / Democracy India History. / India Politics and government 1947-
• ISBN: 9781107068032

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JQ292.S468 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE