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How India Became Democratic - Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise (Hardcover)
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How India Became Democratic - Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise (Hardcover)
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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.
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