How India became democratic : citizenship and the making of the universal franchise (Record no. 60990)

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ISBN 9780670090754
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Classification number 324.60954
Item number SHA/H
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Personal name Shani, Ornit
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Title How India became democratic : citizenship and the making of the universal franchise
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Place of publication Haryana
Name of publisher Penguin Random House
Year of publication 2018
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Number of Pages 284p.
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Summary, etc 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.
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Topical Term Suffrage-India
-- Politics and government
-- Democracy
-- Representative government and representation
-- Citizenship
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Kannur University Central Library Stack 29/03/2021 599.00 324.60954 SHA/H 52475 BK

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