Indian political system
"Palmer, Norman D."
Indian political system - 2nd ed. - Boston Houghton Mifflin 1971 - 325 p.
For students of politics India is perhaps the most important of all the newer nations of the so-called "underdeveloped world." Its long and complex past, its vast population (one-seventh of the human race, greater than that of Africa and Latin America combined), and its present position give India a special importance that can be acknowl edged without doing an injustice to any other nation.
India is a particularly significant laboratory of political, economic, and social development and change. It is a static society, with a political system grounded in orthodox and conservative traditions, but one para doxically in the process of change. Although it is common and con venient to speak of India's "political system" -and for these reasons I have chosen to do so throughout the book. it is not quite accurate. In the strictest sense of the term India has perhaps not yet evolved a real political system at all; but it has a well-established framework of govern ment and law which is a working reality, although to be sure this some times operates in peculiar ways and is currently under extraordinary stresses and strains.
039511926X
IndiaPolitics And Govt.
320.9 PAL 2nd ed.
Indian political system - 2nd ed. - Boston Houghton Mifflin 1971 - 325 p.
For students of politics India is perhaps the most important of all the newer nations of the so-called "underdeveloped world." Its long and complex past, its vast population (one-seventh of the human race, greater than that of Africa and Latin America combined), and its present position give India a special importance that can be acknowl edged without doing an injustice to any other nation.
India is a particularly significant laboratory of political, economic, and social development and change. It is a static society, with a political system grounded in orthodox and conservative traditions, but one para doxically in the process of change. Although it is common and con venient to speak of India's "political system" -and for these reasons I have chosen to do so throughout the book. it is not quite accurate. In the strictest sense of the term India has perhaps not yet evolved a real political system at all; but it has a well-established framework of govern ment and law which is a working reality, although to be sure this some times operates in peculiar ways and is currently under extraordinary stresses and strains.
039511926X
IndiaPolitics And Govt.
320.9 PAL 2nd ed.