This is a painstaking intensive study of three political parties of India. The Indian National Congress, the Communistjk Party of India, and the old Bharatiya Jana Sangh. It purports to examine whether ideological assumptions colour organizational structure of the parties. The author brings out how various parties are based on a ‘kept’ cadre which has no relationship to the ideological image a party presents kbeforek the public. Partieshave a kway, a common ...