Introduction 1. Ours is a caste ridden society. Castes play an important role in shaping the voting behaviour of the people. In normal times, it is caste which makes or breaks the government. But in abnormal situations, people vote overriding […]
The Mayawati government of Uttar Pradesh was defeated in 2012. For the defeat of the Mayawati government, there were many reasons. Out of these reasons, we will try to explain how the issue of fertilizer subsidy was responsible for the […]
What is Law? Law is the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties. Modern laws are enacted by representatives of […]
The UN security council has 5 permanent members. These permanent members are the USA, England, France, Russia and China. We call them P5. India is aspiring to become one of the members of the UN’s security council. The question is […]
Political Scholars believe that developing countries usually have a coup. A coup means sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power from a government. But the richer democracies do not have the coup normally. Three arguments are often advanced for the […]
The Honourable Supreme Court of India attained the celebrity status of ‘supreme defender’ of The Constitution of India, probably, on the day it came up with the doctrine of ‘Basic Structure’. It indeed was a milestone for Indian Constitutionalism. But […]
The newly independent India was highly inspired by the ethical and welfare principles adopted by Emperor Ashoka, hence the Ashoka Chakra was adopted on 22nd July 1947 in the centre of the Tricolor of India and the four lion capital […]
According to a Polish American Professor of Political Science, democracy cannot survive in poor countries. But India is an exception to it. Then what is the reason for the survival of democracy in India? According to Pranab Bardhan, the survival […]
Scholars are convinced that democracies can be established at any level of income but they do not survive at a low level of income. With few exceptions, countries at higher levels of income tend to have stable democracies. Adam Przeworski, […]
An eminent British historian Linda Colley published her new book The Gun, The Ship and The Pen. Through her book, she tried to explain the forces responsible for the emergence of the modern constitution in the world. The first force […]