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020			_a9780143444602
040			_cAL
041			_aEnglish
082			_223 _a320.954 _bDESR
100			_aMeghnad Desai _9215021
245			_aRaisina model _b: Indian democracy at 70
260			_aGurgaon _bPenguin Books _c2018
300			_a xxx,193p. _bPB _c21x13 cm.
365			_b₹299.00 _c₹ _d₹299.00
520			_aMeghnad Desai reflects on Indian democracy as it completes seventy years of colourful, eventful and energetic parliamentary existence. Pulling no punches, Desai looks at the history and evolution of Indian democratic institutions, pinpointing their achievements, but also their repeated failure to live up to the standards envisaged by the nation's founders. Drawing on his own career as a Labour peer in Britain's House of Lords, Desai has the rare understanding and familiarity with the process of politics, and is able therefore to identify its universal features and zoom in on its uniquely Indian aspects. This is a candid, reflective and unsparing view of the precepts and practice of Indian politics. It traces at the evolution and growth of identity politics, coalition governments and single-party rule and the differing political narratives of the north and the south. The Raisina Model is a critical and frequently uncomfortable meditation on India's contemporary political culture.
650			_aDemocracy _9213858
650			_aPolitical Science _9215022
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