To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism Debasish 1st Edition

To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192588272, 0192588273

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192588273
• ISBN-13: 9780192588272
• Author: Debasish Roy Chowdhury, John Keane

India is heralded as the world’s largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi-style populism. The book details the much deeper historical roots of the present-day assaults on civil liberties and democratic institutions. Democracy, the authors also argue, is much more than elections and the separation of powers. It is a whole way of life lived in dignity, and that is why they pay special attention to the decaying social foundations of Indian democracy. In compelling fashion, the book describes daily struggles for survival and explains how lived social injustices and unfreedoms rob Indian elections of their meaning, while at the same time feeding the decadence and iron-fisted rule of its governing institutions. Much more than a book about India, To Kill A Democracy argues that what is happening in the country is globally important, and not just because every third person living in a democracy is an Indian. It shows that when democracies rack and ruin their social foundations, they don’t just kill off the spirit and substance of democracy. They lay the foundations for despotism.

Table contents:

1. Tryst With Democracy
2. A Distant Rainbow
3. The Greatest Show on Earth
4. Darling of the West
5. Emergency Rule
6. How Democracies Die
7. ‘Bread, Fish, Wastrels and Frauds’
8. Social Emergencies
9. Health of a Democracy
10. Universal Suffering
11. The Great Leveller
12. Chronic Disease
13. Damn Lies
14. Health and Democracy
15. Private Greed
16. A Million Famines
17. Wails for Rice
18. Slow Death
19. Starvation
20. Hungry Nation
21. No Escape

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