Democracy in India

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Democracy in India is the largest by population in the world.[1][2] Elections in India started with the 1951–52 Indian general election. India was the 19th most

V-Dem Democracy indices in 2023 with a score of 0.399 out of 1.[3]
Flawed democracy.[4]

Democratic backsliding

See also: Democratic backsliding by country § India

According to

autocratisers in the last 10 years".[6] Free political speech is limited.[7] Gerrymandering is another challenge to democracy in India.[8][9]

History

See also: History of democracy § Indian subcontinent

Early

Diodorus writes two centuries after the time of Alexander the Great about democratic states in India,[11] but lacks evidence for elections considering the word "democracy" around the 3rd century BCE could mean any autonomous state.[12][13] Later in 10th century the election of local representatives for the village bodies during the Chola Empire is claimed in Vaikunda Perumal Temple's inscriptions.[14][15][16]

See also

References

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  3. ^ V-Dem Institute (2023). "The V-Dem Dataset". Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  4. ^ Dutta, Anisha (22 June 2023). "India secretly works to preserve reputation on global Democracy Index". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Pillai, Shreeya and Lindberg, Staffan I. (2021) "Democracy Broken Down: India" in Democracy Report 2021: Autocratization Turns Viral pp.20–21. V-Dem Institute
  6. ^ "India Is 'One of the Worst Autocratisers in the Last 10 Years,' Says 2023 V-Dem Report". The Wire. 7 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Democratic Backsliding in India, the World's Largest Democracy". V-Dem Institute. 24 February 2020. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  8. ^ Forbes India Investigation: India's most gerrymandered constituencies, Karthik Shashidhar, 2019
  9. ^ India 'gerrymanders' Kashmir region in redrawn electoral map, 2022
  10. ^ Robinson, 1997, p. 23
  11. ^ Diodorus 2.39
  12. ^ Larsen, 1973, pp. 45–46
  13. ^ de Sainte, 2006, pp. 321–3
  14. ^ R., Nagaswamy (2003). Uttaramerur. Chennai: Tamil Arts Academy. pp. 12–16.
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  16. ^ Vaikunta perumal temple inscriptions, Uttiramerur, TN and democratic election practices 1000 years ago, Navrang India, September 02, 2022
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