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020 _a9780197639931
_qhbk
041 _aeng
082 _a320.140954
_bMUK
100 _aBanerjee, Mukulika
245 0 _aCultivating democracy
_cBanerjee Mukulika
_bpolitics and citizenship in agrarian India
260 _bOxford University Press
_cc2022
_aNew York
300 _a237 p.
_c24 cm.
504 _aindex
520 _aCultivating 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.
650 _aAgriculture Economic aspects; Agriculture Economic aspects India; Democracy India
942 _cENGLISH
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