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To kill a democracy : India's passage to despotism / Debasish Roy Chowdhury, John Keane

By: Roy Chowdhury, DebasishContributor(s): Keane, JohnMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2021Description: vi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9789390742790Subject(s): Democracy -- India | Despotism -- India | -- India Politics and government -- Since 2014DDC classification: 320.454
Contents:
A distant rainbow Health of a democracy A million famines Ground realities Motion sickness Writing on the wall A new slavery Vote, or else Chremacracy Elective despotism Justice defiled Bad news Remaking the people
Summary: Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi-style populism. The book details the much deeper historical roots of the present-day assaults on civil liberties and democratic institutions. Democracy, the authors also argue, is much more than elections and the separation of powers. It is a whole way of life lived in dignity, and that is why they pay special attention to the decaying social foundations of Indian democracy. In compelling fashion, the book describes daily struggles for survival and explains how lived social injustices and unfreedoms rob Indian elections of their meaning, while at the same time feeding the decadence and iron-fisted rule of its governing institutions. Much more than a book about India, To Kill A Democracy argues that what is happening in the country is globally important, and not just because every third person living in a democracy is an Indian. It shows that when democracies rack and ruin their social foundations, they don't just kill off the spirit and substance of democracy. They lay the foundations for despotism.
List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals (Gifted) - June 1st to 30th 2024
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A distant rainbow
Health of a democracy
A million famines
Ground realities
Motion sickness
Writing on the wall
A new slavery
Vote, or else
Chremacracy
Elective despotism
Justice defiled
Bad news
Remaking the people

Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi-style populism. The book details the much deeper historical roots of the present-day assaults on civil liberties and democratic institutions. Democracy, the authors also argue, is much more than elections and the separation of powers. It is a whole way of life lived in dignity, and that is why they pay special attention to the decaying social foundations of Indian democracy. In compelling fashion, the book describes daily struggles for survival and explains how lived social injustices and unfreedoms rob Indian elections of their meaning, while at the same time feeding the decadence and iron-fisted rule of its governing institutions. Much more than a book about India, To Kill A Democracy argues that what is happening in the country is globally important, and not just because every third person living in a democracy is an Indian. It shows that when democracies rack and ruin their social foundations, they don't just kill off the spirit and substance of democracy. They lay the foundations for despotism.

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