01544nam a2200181Ia 4500 9365 9365 9781108435642 320.954 SAD-W Sadanandan, Anoop Why Democracy Deepens : Political Information And Decentralization In India New York Cambridge University Press 2017 ix, 192p. includes references and index 'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected - was marked by social hierarchies and economic vulnerabilities. Decades of socio-economic changes since then would transform this old order, albeit unevenly across Indian states, to decisively shape the development of democracy in the country. Why Democracy Deepens relates how these socio-economic changes have deepened democracy in India beyond its topsoil. Drawing on his research in villages and states, Anoop Sadanandan explains how socio-economic changes have heightened the need for local voter information, and have promoted grassroots democracy in some Indian states. By exploring the pivotal political developments in the world's largest democracy, the book puts forward a theory of local democratization. Politics And Government Democracy India Decentralization in Goverment BK ddc 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2018-03-26 OP 2018-02-28 1 2 320.954 SAD-W 49897 2019-09-23 00:00:00 2019-08-23 2019-04-18 BK