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082			_a320.9 PAL
100			_a"Palmer, Norman, D."
245		4	_aIndian political system
260			_aBoston
260			_bHoughton Miffln
260			_c1961
300			_a277p.
520			_aFor 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.
650			_aPolitics and government
942			_cB _2ddc