ISBN: 9788191008562 - history of modern india: the origin of asian democracy (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. viii + 272.

Contents Preface 1 The Indian subcontinent 2 The Government of British India 3 War and the search for a new order 4 A critical decade 5 Indias democratic experience 6 Democracy and development 7 Democratic governance and globalization 8 Problems at home Bibliography IndexDemocracy which drives from the Greek word demos or people is defined basically as government in which the supreme power is vested in the people In some forms democracy can be exercised directly by the people; in large societies it is by the people through their elected agents Democracy is a political system in which all the members of the society have an equal share of formal political powerAsia has the promise of democracy with democratically elected governments in all of South Asia and in many other parts of the region Countries in Asia have adopted different systems and models of democracy that have been influenced by their historical past Indias political experiment as a sustainable and successful democracy should logically provide a workable model for all the other South Asian nations jacket 272 pp.…