explain the evolution and growth of democracy in india
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In India Industrialisation has been perceived as synonymous with development by the
elitists in pre‐colonial period and later by the elite leadership in the post independence periods of
State led growth and market led growth. Agriculture has been perceived an area of diminishing
returns. Industrialisation has got greater emphasis in Development at the cost of Agriculture and
Rural Development Schemes. The Chasm between the rich and the rural poor has continued to be
widened during the periods of Market led growth and Government led growth. Poverty has
increased and the number of poor is not coming down. Rich are getting richer. The growing
development chasm is putting strains on the Indian Democratic system. Politics of violence is
rearing and consolidating. Largest segment of people are dependent on agriculture and related
professions. India has reasonable base in agriculture; in its achievements and has still untapped
potential. It is time that we start paying greater emphasis on agriculture and its related
infrastructure which would open greater avenues of employment for the rural poor and close the
gap between the rich and the poor. The experiment of re‐emphasis could begin from Bihar where
agriculture potential is high and new industries have been shy of coming. Let Bihar not be
following the elitist based concept of Industry for Industry’s sake.
The advent of Political Democracy in India was unique and distinct. The Constitution of India
as adopted in November 1949, created a democratic republic and pledged to secure justice,
liberty, equality and fraternity for all its citizens. Universal adult franchise was provided at
one go, compared to the very limited franchise under which the elections of 1937 and 1945–
46 were conducted. Provisions were built in the Constitution of affirmative action in favour
of the historically disadvantaged sections; and secularism to guarantee the pluralism of
society, culture, civilization, religion and polity. Of the hundred or more countries that came
to liberation in the years following 1947, India was the only one to translate Independence
for the country into freedom of her people. India has since strengthened the Political
Democracy by giving constitutional sanctity to the Panchayati Raj in Rural and Municipal
Bodies in Urban areas, creating 3 lakhs elected units of local self government to which have
been elected no less than 32 lakhs members as many as 12 lakhs of whom are women, and
86000 of whom hold office as President and Vice‐President of their respective local bodies.
The way democracy was brought about in India by a Constituent Assembly constituted
through a limited franchise, would reflect that it was constructed by an enlightened .
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