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Democracy and Transparency in the Indian State - The making of the Right to Information Act (Paperback)
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Democracy and Transparency in the Indian State - The making of the Right to Information Act (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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The enactment of the national Right to Information (RTI) Act in
2005 has been produced, consumed, and celebrated as an important
event of democratic deepening in India both in terms of the process
that led to its enactment (arising from a grassroots movement) and
its outcome (fundamentally altering the citizen--state
relationship). This book proposes that the explanatory factors
underlying this event may be more complex than imagined thus far.
The book discusses how the leadership of the grassroots movement
was embedded within the ruling elite and possessed the necessary
resources as well as unparalleled access to spaces of power for the
movement to be successful. It shows how the democratisation of the
higher bureaucracy along with the launch of the economic
liberalisation project meant that the urban, educated, high-caste,
upper-middle class elite that provided critical support to the
demand for an RTI Act was no longer vested in the state and had
moved to the private sector. Mirroring this shift, the framing of
the RTI Act during the 1990s saw its ambit reduced to the
government, even as there was a concomitant push to privatise
public goods and services. It goes on to investigate the Indian RTI
Act within the global explosion of freedom of information laws over
the last two decades, and shows how international pressures had a
direct and causal impact both on its content and the timing of its
enactment. Taking the production of the RTI Act as a lens, the book
argues that while there is much to celebrate in the consolidation
of procedural democracy in India over the last six decades,
existing social and political structures may limit the extent and
forms of democratic deepening occurring in the near future. It will
be of interest to those working in the fields of South Asian Law,
Asian Politics, and Civil Society.
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