Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy

by Sumantra Bose

Book Overview

A nation of 1.25 billion people composed of numerous ethnic, linguistic, religious, and caste communities, India is the world's most diverse democracy. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork and experience of Indian politics, Sumantra Bose tells the story of democracy's evolution in India since the 1950s--and describes the many challenges it faces in the early twenty-first century.

Over the past two decades, India has changed from a country...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050665
• ISBN13: 9780674050662
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"