India @ 75: A Changing Electoral Democracy [Hardcover]

India @ 75: A Changing Electoral Democracy explores Indias democratic journey from Nehru to Modi, focusing on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and beyond. Blending history, analysis, and theory, it offers fresh insights into the evolution of electoral politics in the worlds largest democracy.

Sunil K Choudhary is Professor of Political Science and Director (Honorary), Centre for Global Studies (CGS) at University of Delhi, India. He has to his credit at present 7 Books, 53 Research Papers and 310 Research Publications and Presentations. His last book title,The Changing Face of Parties and Party Systems: A Study of Israel and India was published in 2018.

Examining the relationship between elections and democracy, this book attempts to study the transformative nature of Indias electoral democracy during 75-year of its working. Amidst celebrating 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav', the book highlights the changing politics and the political cultures as manifested in transforming nature of parties and party systems from 1950s till contemporary times, thus covering the First Lok Sabha election to the Seventeenth Lok Sabha 2019 amidst continuities, conformities and changes in Indias electoral landscape.

Marking a shift from Nehrus Modern India to Modis New India, the book underlines the realigning vote, voter and voting at the backdrop of transcending issues and narratives along with changing modes of electioneering that have shaped the nature of government on the one hand and democratic governance on the other. Presenting Indias electoral democracy from the perspective of new directions, dimensions and developments linking it to nations key democratic upsurges with new conceptualizations, theorizations and generalizations, the book could be seen as a Grammer of Indian Polity.

This title has been co-published with Aakar BolCÅ