Elections in India: Behind the congress comeback

Article Abstract:

The leaders of the opposition Indian National Congress (INC) and the public were convinced of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (BJP-NDA) victory in the April-May 2004 Indian parliamentary elections. The causes and political repercussions of the surprise victory of INC, which captured 145 (27 percent) of the 543 seats in parliament as against the BJP, which won 138 seats (25 percent), are discussed.

Elections, Reports, Bharatiya Janata Party (India), Indian National Congress

---

The crisis of Indian secularism

Article Abstract:

Concepts about Indian secularism of humanity and the equality present here inspite of religious and communal differences are presented. Congress's political dominance slipped in the late 1960s and with it India's secular principles began to be shattered.

Evaluation, Secularism

---

India's unlikely democracy: Six decades of independence

Article Abstract:

The article describes about democracy in India, which has grown and consolidated in the past sixty years even though it has faced many challenges like the flaws in protecting ethnic and religious minorities, suppression of sections movements and poverty.

Public affairs, Economic aspects, Religious aspects, Autonomy, Autonomy (Political science), Democratization, Indian history, 1947-

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: World religions and democracy: Hinduism and self-rule. India's unlikely democracy: The rise of judicial sovereignty
• Abstracts: 'Monkeywrenching' and the processes of democracy. Politicising the quotidian. What's wrong with ecofeminism?
• Abstracts: Hong Kong: the perils of semidemocracy. The advantages of radical reform. Sovereignty and uncertainty in Ukraine
• Abstracts: Influences on deficit spending in industrialized democracies. Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Prerformance
• Abstracts: Photo essay: Thailand's underground war. Photo essay: beggars, traders, and givers: ownership in Senegalese society

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.