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082			_a340 IND
100			_aIndrayan, N.K.
245		0	_aLaw and public opinion in India
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bDeep & Deep
260			_c1985
300			_a311 p.
520			_aLaw is an important instrument of governance. It is used in monarchy, oligarchy as well as democracy. In Monarchy it comes from the King, in Oligarchy it comes from a small group of persons, in Democracy it must have the concurrence of the majority of the people. We have to see how far law in India enjoys the concurrence of the majority? What meaning do the people take by a 'vote' in elections to our legislatures? We know that only 50 to 55% people vote in the elections, and the candidate who may be elected, might have secured only a small fraction of these votes. Even these votes are not tendered to him, as a result of becoming fully aware of the course of legislation that candidate or his party intends to follow. If this is so, then democracy without education is oligarchy in substance. It was out of all these crucial considerations that the present study was taken up.
650			_alaw-India
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