Content: 3Vol. Vol.1(A complete documentation & analysis of Indian parliamentary elections since 1952),(xiv,498p.) Vol.2(A complete documentation & analysis of Indian parliamentary elections since 1952),(xiv,1158p.) Vol.3(:a complete documentation & analysis of Indian parliamentary elections since 1952 ),(xiv,926p.)

The World's Largest Exercise in Democracy, India's Sixteenth General Election, took nearly four weeks to complete. Spread over nine stages, 543 constituencies,8251 Candidates, representing some 300 parties, completed for the ballots of an electorate of 814 m eligible voters.In 8,30,866polling stations,17,20,080 simple,robust and apparently tamper-proof electronic voting machines were deployed.With continent-sized voters, India has learned to pull off virtually flawlessly the biggest, eye-popping democratic exercise with the kind of ease that is a part of its new brand equity.