Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy is a collection of essays written and compiled by Ashutosh Varshney. This book essentially discusses about the deepening of Indian democracy from the time of its formation after independence in 1947. It also talks about the challenges faced by Indian democracy due to its evolution since its inception. The overview of the book talks about the formation and consolidation of India's improbable democracy.

This book handles one of the intriguing political concepts of our nation-Indian democracy. It gives insights into different faces of Indian democracy. Apart from this, the book also explores other themes from its essays, like Hindu nationalism, caste politics, ethnic conflicts and politics of economic reforms.

Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy offers its deep views on various key questions. How federalism has handled linguistic diversity thus far, why governance and regional underdevelopment will drive the formation of new states, how coalition making induces ideological moderation in the politics of the BJP, how political empowerment of the Dalits has not ensured their economic transformation, how social revolution in the south led to its overtaking of the north and how the economic reforms succeeded because they affected elite politics, are the questions that are discerned and explained in detail. This book presents the success and failure moves of Indian democracy. It was published on 1 November 2013 in hardcover.