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Why Democracy Deepens: Political Information and Decentralization in India
Anoop Sadanandan
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hardcover. Why Democracy Deepens explains how socio-economic changes in India are shaping its politics to promote grassroots democracy. Num Pages: 202 pages, 29 b/w illus. 3 maps 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JPF; JPHC; JPHV; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected - was marked by social hierarchies and economic vulnerabilities. Decades of socio-economic changes since then would transform this old order, albeit unevenly across Indian states, to decisively shape the development of democracy in the country. Why Democracy Deepens relates how these socio-economic changes have deepened democracy in India beyond its topsoil. Drawing on his research ... Read more
'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected - was marked by social hierarchies and economic vulnerabilities. Decades of socio-economic changes since then would transform this old order, albeit unevenly across Indian states, to decisively shape the development of democracy in the country. Why Democracy Deepens relates how these socio-economic changes have deepened democracy in India beyond its topsoil. Drawing on his research ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107177512
SKU
V9781107177512
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About Anoop Sadanandan
Anoop Sadanandan is a social scientist and an assistant professor at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship, Syracuse University, New York. He specializes in political economy and comparative politics, and has an abiding interest in India.
Reviews for Why Democracy Deepens: Political Information and Decentralization in India
'… Anoop Sadanandan's book brings a welcome focus back to grassroots democracy and to villages … Sadanandan's explanation of decentralization and democratic deepening is an attractive one.' Ronojoy Sen, Pacific Affairs