AN INDIAN ‘MODEL’ OF DEMOCRACY?

For an elaboration on this theme, see Warren Mark E. (ed.), Democracy and Trust, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1999.

For details, see Pinkney Robert , Democracy in the Third World, Lynne Rienner Publishers, USA, (second edition) 2004.

Chandhoke Neera has written a large number of pieces on this. For example, The Conceits of Civil Society, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003; The Limits of Global Civil Society, in Glasius Marlies Kaldor Mary Anheier Helmut (eds.), Global Civil Society, Oxford University Press, UK, 2002.

Pinkney , op. cit. ., p. 1.

Lipset Seymour Martin , Some Social Requisites for Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy, in American Political Science Review, volume 53, number 1, 1959.

Lipset , Political Man, Heinemann, London, 1960, pp. 84–85.

Almond Gabriel A. Verba Sydney , The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1963.

Almond , Comparing Political Systems, in Journal of Politics, volume 18, number 3, August 1956.

Huntington Samuel P. , Political Order in Changing Societies, University of California, USA, 1968.

Mill John Stuart , Considerations on Representative Government, Liberal Arts Press, New York, 1958, p. 230.

Lijphart Arend , Democracy in Plural Societies, Yale University, USA, 1982.

Weiner Myron , The Indian Paradox, Sage, New Delhi, 1989.

Kohli Atul , Democracy and Discontent, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1991.

Kohli (ed.), The Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2001.

See articles by Manor James , Centre-State Relations, and Lloyd I. Rudolph Susanne Hoeber , Redoing the Constitutional Design, in Kohli (ed.), Ibid .

For example, Baxi Upendra Parekh Bhikhu (eds.), Crisis and Change in Contemporary India, Sage, New Delhi, 1995; Kothari Rajni , Interpreting Indian Politics, in Baxi Parekh (eds.), Ibid; a series of articles by Kothari, D.L. Sheth and Harsh Sethi in the Economic and Political Weekly throughout the 1980s and 1990s like Kothari, NGOs, the Sta teand World Capitalism, in volume 21, number 50, 1986; Sheth , Movements, Intellectuals and the State, in volume 27, number 8, 1992; Sheth , Grass-roots Initiatives in India, volume 19, number 6, 1984; Kothari , The Non-Party Political Process, volume 19, number 5, 1984.

For early history see Graham Bruce D. , Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics, Macmillan , New Delhi, 1993. Also, Basu Amrita , The Dialectics of Hindu Nationalism, in Kohli (ed.), op.cit.