TY - BOOK AU - Banerjee, Mukulika TI - Cultivating democracy : politics and citizenship in agrarian India SN - 9780197639931 U1 - 320.140954 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Agriculture Economic aspects; Agriculture Economic aspects India; Democracy India N1 - index N2 - Cultivating Democracy is the first study of its kind of the world’s largest democracy that shows how the values of republicanism are essential for successful democratic practice. In 1950, after independence, India constituted itself as a sovereign democratic republic. While democracy indicated the character of the vertical representative nature of the relationship between citizens and state, the term republic outlined the horizontal relationship of fraternity between people and an active engagement by citizens. ER -