The Pedagogy of Democracy

Throughout the history of Indian politics in the 20th Century runs a curious and disturbing thread. Both before and after the achievement of independence in 1947, large segments of the Indian populace felt that the institutional means of redress for grievances, frustrations and wrongs-actual or fancied-were inadequate. Since the British withdrawal a fuller panoply of democratic procedures for influencing government has been introduced, but a basic suspicion persists that government is still alien and elite-although now the separation is based upon indigenous social division rather than upon foreign conquest and race. The fact is that the gaining of independence has marked very little change in the use of the more direct and agitational modes of public suasion. The Congress Government has been treated to an almost constant tattoo of demands supported by the same techniques popularized during the independence struggle, such as hunger-strikes, black-flag demonstrations, the courting of arrest, impeding of public business, and violent riots

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• India

  Ralph J Retzlaff•Asian Survey•1963

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• Designing Contentious Politics in Post-1989 China

  Open Access•Peter Lorentzen•Modern China•2017

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• The Public Perception of Protest

  Ralph H Turner•American Sociological Review•1969

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