Forty Years of Worlds Largest Democracy - Hardcover

G.N.S. Raghavan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8121203325 ISBN 13: 9788121203326

Publisher: Gyan Publishing House, 1990

Synopsis

Foreword IX Chapter 1 Five Hundred Million Electors Universal Adult Franchise Reduction in Voting Age Women's Participation Chapter 2 Electoral System Divide and Rule : Separate Electorates Reservation of Seats Anomalies of First-Past-the-Post Voters' Capacity for Judgement Chapter 3 Growth of A Complex Polity Political Parties and Alliances Emergence of Regional Parties Stars in Political Wars 1989: Tense Run-up New Political Configuration Northern 'waves' and the South Other Highlights A 'Hung' Lok Sabha Shifting Scene in the States 1990: A Mani General Aspects of stability Election Chapter 4. Issues inand Beyond - 1989 Poverty Literacy Corruption Electoral Reform Secularism and Minorities Common Civil Code Castebased Quotas: Mandal Report Centre-State-Local Body Relations Freedom of the Media Foreign Policy Chapter 5. Psephology Arrives in India Reading the Voters' Mind What Brings the Voter Out How the Indian Voter Decides

About this edition

• Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 8121203325
• ISBN 13: 9788121203326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 141