Democracy and Diversity: India and the American Experience

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Shankar K Bajpai
OUP India, 2007 - Political Science - 312 pages
This volume is a comparative study of the Indian and American experiences of democracy. They deal with institutions and ethnicity, idea of the nation-state, linguistic diversity, minorities question, political parties and democratic practices, federalism and decentralization.

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Minorities and Indias Democracy
144
Democracy within Parties and the Accommodation
192
Federalism MultiNational Societies and Negotiating
225
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Shankar Bajpai is the Former Indian Ambassador to the United States, China, and Pakistan.

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