Indian Politics In Transition From Dominance To Chaos

Contents. Foreword. Prologue. 1. Transition. 2. Spectrum. 3. Manifestoes. 4. Issues. immediate and remote. 5. Outcome. 6. Diagnosis. 7. Assembly elections 1993. Epilogue. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. The present work examines the subterranean subtleties that play their role in the development and change in the party system. The sustenance of the present and the future party system is ridden with speculations and tied up with the issues which are both real and ephemeral. From all standpoints it appears that a healthy and progressive party system is essential for the progressive realization of democratic norms and steady development of institutional paraphernalia. Here is a comprehensive and indepth study of the evolution and development of party politics in its correlation with general elections. The factors and forces operating in the transition of party politics during 1952 1993 have been identified. Evidence has been garnered and collated for establishing the cogency of the arguments. Conclusions have been drawn on the basis of empirical data. Besides this work analyses the nature of party system which has varied over time. It has sometimes been a one party dominant system and at other times a two party system or a multi party system and now a chaos followed by the 1993 fiasco where the assembly elections have destroyed any semblance of a system. The given political scenario underlines the dire need of a coalition government at the centre as an inevitability in the existing equation of political parties in the Lok Sabha and it seems to be the only alternative to the traditional one party rule mode in the multi party situation obtaining in our country for averting the chaos. 360 pp.…