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India has always been a land of contrasts and marvels. Today it contrives to be a functioning democracy in the midst of a society that remains inherently hierarchical. In order to grasp this paradox in all its dimensions, Jean Alphonse Bernard resolved to revisit the realities of India now in the company of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59). Tocqueville in India explores the enduring dialogue between the State and Society. Following neither Fukuyama nor Huntingdon, ...
Because the story of modern India begins then, with the last British charter. By virtue of the G. O. I (1935) Act, London opened wide the field to Indian political parties and their first ever competition for the votes of 30 million men and women at the 1937 elections. At a stroke it introduced into the body politic of an ancient nation, endowed with an age-old heritage of civilization, the virus of modernity.Thus undivided India entered the faithful transition ...