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The volume looks into certain critical issues challenging India in the present and its future prospects. It ponders over the question as to what holds back India from utilising its rich resources and emerging as a shining model of democracy in the world. With case studies, it takes up crucial concerns like the black economy, the State giving in to business houses and marginalisation of sections of the population. It examines internal security and police reform, ...
The volume contains essays that probe the need for electoral reform in the Indian context in order to deepen the democratic process, strengthen the instruments of public accountability and guarantee opportunity for meaningful voter participation. It critiques the electoral system in India throwing light on the electoral process. It views the increasing influence of money and muscle power and corruption in elections, the pernicious behaviour of elected ...