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To kill a democracy : India's passage to despotism / Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roy Chowdhury, Debasish, author.
- Keane, John, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--India.
- Democracy.
- India--Politics and government--2014-.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- With a unique narrative combining moving life stories and scholarly insight, this book offers a radical re-appraisal of Indian politics. The book demonstrates why Indian democracy is of global importance and why its pathologies are a cause for alarm: as much for India as for the future of democracy the world over.
- Contents:
- A distant rainbow
- Health of a democracy
- A million famines
- Ground realities
- Motion sickness
- Writing on the wall
- A new slavery
- Vote, or else
- Chremacracy
- Elective despotism
- Justice defiled
- Bad news
- Remaking the people.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-258827-3
- 0-19-192529-2
- 0-19-258826-5
- OCLC:
- 1257084140
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