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028			_a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. _b: 4794/23, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: TB1910
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100			_aYadav, Yogendra.
245			_aMaking Sense of Indian Democracy. _c/Yogendra Yadav.
260			_aRanikhet _b: Permanent Black _c , 2020.
300			_axxxi, 390p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aYogendra Yadav combines the insights of political science with the political sense of an activist. This book invites us to take a fresh look at India’s first Republic, 1950–2019. The first section provides a historical overview, the second a comparative overview situating Indian political practices next to those in diverse countries. The third focuses on theory and method to look at the specific nature of the Indian state; at polls, predictions, and psephology; and at the virtues and limits of anthropological fieldwork for understanding political praxis. The last section proposes electoral and democratic reforms that seem desirable and feasible if Indian democracy is to persist. Indian politics is usually written about by journalists and scholars. Yogendra Yadav is almost singular in the Indian political world. Possessing the apparatus of a University Professor, he is also a respected TV commentator, a psephologist, and an thinker. All these aspects are apparent in this book. How did we end up here? This book responds to a question that troubles every student of Indian democracy today. It does so by tracing the history of India's creolised democracy placing its record in comparative perspective assessing the relevant theoretical and methodologies saying what is and what is not to be done.
650			_aPolitical Science
650			_aSocial Science
650			_aIndian Democracy
700			_aYogendra Yadav.
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