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INDIA: Sixty Years of Indian Democracy: An Unfinished Project with Professor Niraja Jayal |
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Professor Niraja Jayal |
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With a population of over a billion, the Republic of India is the world's largest democracy. Sixty years after its independence India has emerged as a unique entity that is rapidly developing both politically and economically. The Indian democracy, coloured with its distinctive political characteristic, is astoundingly complex, diverse and as some may say, chaotic.
Author of numerous works on India and its democratic governance, Professor Niraja Jayal will share her expertise on the past, present and future of India's political development.
Niraja Jayal is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions (2006); Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India and editor of Democracy in India (2001). Her current research interests include the concept of Pluralism and democracy in South Asia.
This event is presented by Asialink & the School of Political Science, Sociology and Criminology & the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry, the University of Melbourne.
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