How India became democratic: Citizenship and the making of the universal franchise

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"How India Became Democratic explores the greatest experiment in democratic human history. It tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of universal adult franchise in the world's largest democracy. Ornit Shani offers a new view of the institutionalisatio...

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Main Author: Shani, Ornit
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge CUP 2018
Subjects:
Suffrage
Representative government and representation
Citizenship
Democracy
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