Raisina Model

by Meghnad Desai

Book Overview

Meghnad Desai reflects on Indian democracy as it completes seventy years of colourful, eventful and energetic parliamentary existence. Pulling no punches, Desai looks at the history and evolution of Indian democratic institutions, pinpointing their achievements, but also their repeated failure to live up to the standards envisaged by the nation's founders. Drawing on his own career as a Labour peer in Britain's House of Lords, Desai has the rare understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143444603
• ISBN13: 9780143444602
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: India Penguin
• Length: 208 Pages