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The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture And The Nation is non-fiction book written by Ramon Magsaysay Award-winning journalist Ravish Kumar [2] on India's democracy and its backsliding under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [3] [4] [a].
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. First published by HarperCollins in August 2007. [1] [2] The book covers the history of the India after it gained independence from the British in 1947. [1] A revised and expanded edition was published in 2017. [3]
Cosmopolitan democracy, also known as global democracy or world federalism, is a political system in which democracy is implemented on a global scale, either directly or through representatives. An important justification for this kind of system is that the decisions made in national or regional democracies often affect people outside the ...
Democracy in India is the largest by population in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Elections in India started with the 1951–52 Indian general election . India was one of the first few countries in the world which adopted universal adult franchise right from independence, giving women and men equal voting rights.
In 2023, according to the Freedom in the World report by Freedom House, India was classified as a "partly free" country for the third consecutive year. [31] [32] The V-Dem Democracy Indices by V-Dem Institute classify India as an 'electoral autocracy'. In 2023, it referred to India as "one of the worst autocracies in the last 10 years". [33]
Democracy is "a whole way of life lived in dignity". The book focuses on the decay in the social foundations in India. The social injustices, restrictions and struggle for livelihood make the government more powerful and greatly affect the meaning of elections for Indians. [5]
Multitude is divided into three sections: "War," which addresses the current "global civil war"; [1] "Multitude," which elucidates the "multitude" as an "active social subject, which acts on the basis of what the singularities share in common"; [1] and, "Democracy," which critiques traditional forms of political representation and gestures toward alternatives.
Whole-process people's democracy is a primarily consequentialist view, in which the most important criterion for evaluating the success of democracy is whether democracy can "solve the people's real problems," while a system in which "the people are awakened only for voting" is not truly democratic. [40]