TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shani, Ornit
TI  - How India Became Democratic: citizenship and the making of the Universal Franchise
SN  - 9780143455660
U1  - 324.60954	 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Haryana
PB  - Penguin Random House
KW  - Politics, Citizenship
KW  - India
N1  - A subtle and impressive work of scholarship, which breaks new ground in the history of modern India’–Ramachandra Guha

How India Became Democratic tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of universal adult franchise in the world’s largest democracy and offers a new view of the way democracy captured the political imagination of its diverse peoples.

Indians became voters before they were citizens–by the time the constitution came into force in 1950, the notion of universal franchise and electoral democracy were already grounded. Drawing on rich archival materials, Shani shows how the Indian people were a driving force in the making of democratic citizenship as they struggled for their voting rights
ER  -