DEMOCRACY INSIGHT

Understanding efficacy of ‘politics of reforms’ on grounding base for accelerated overall development of India Email: khyati.khush@gmail.com    Politics of India has been seen to evolve since the inception of the Indus Valley civilization. Considering here the post independence politics of India, then it has further evolved essentially within the framework of the Indian Constitution that established India as a federal parliamentary democratic republic nation. Fundamentally, politics can be defined as activities related to governance of a country or area that primarily aim to improve life status of associated people through distribution of power over resources. With this fundamental idea of politics at core and constitution as frame, Indian politics has been adjusting its model since independence to achieve welfare for its people and development for the nation as a whole .       Indian democracy is world’s largest democracy and hence the I...

email: khyati.khush @gmail.com India is a land of vast diversity and long history. The world’s oldest civilisation flourished on this land. Hence the people have inherited their intrinsic values from ages ago. However, the present democratic structure of the nation is merely 64years old. When India got independence after a long tussle in 1947, the Indian economy was a gloomy picture backed by massive poverty, unemployment, widespread diseases, illiteracy and underdevelopment. The Supreme law of the land was framed and enforced as the Indian Constitution in 1950. Thereby, India was defined as ‘ socialist secular sovereign democratic republic’. So far in these years after independence, no doubt the Indian growth story is worth applauding and India has walked miles ahead the gloomy state it was at the time of independence. It is the world’s fastest growing economy now, 3 rd in GDP (on PPP basis). [1] However, the inequalities of income & wealth, poverty still remain a deep ...