An Analysis of the Historical Development of Successful Democratic Institutions in India
The problem of “third world status” has been a major barrier to the development of India as a democratic government throughout the 20th century. British colonialism provided the foundation for a parliamentary system in India, which soon become a means in which Indian nationalism arose and overthrew the occupiers through democratization and popular support. However, over the course of Indian independence in the middle to latter 20th century, many countries in the first and second world did not believe that India could achieve successes as a democracy. The formation of the Indian Independence Act 1947 and the eventual liberation from the British Raj resulted …show more content…
Of course, India was dominated by a foreign cooption under the British Raj, which defined a slow evolutionary process in creating this type of European parliamentary system of democracy. Throughout the course of this development, the Indian peoples eventually overcame British dominance with the Indian Independence Act 1947 and, eventually, India became a republic in 1950. After these astonishing success, India slowly evolved into a democracy over the course of many years, but not without some doubts about the success of this …show more content…
For instance, during the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the city of Calicut helped to diffuse the religious animosity that had occurred during the political upheaval of Hindu nationalism. For example, there were rumors of pigs being thrown into mosques by Hindus, which caused riots and chaos, I this region: “Such rumors often led to riots in several cities in India and frequently did so in Aligarh. In Calicut the peace committees and the press helped the administration quash the rumors” (Varshney, 2001, p.381). This type of centralized government helped to devolve the irrationality of religious conflict, which had typically been an obstacle to any form of democratization under the
The problem of “third world status” has been a major barrier to the development of India as a democratic government throughout the 20th century. British colonialism provided the foundation for a parliamentary system in India, which soon become a means in which Indian nationalism arose and overthrew the occupiers through democratization and popular support. However, over the course of Indian independence in the middle to latter 20th century, many countries in the first and second world did not believe that India could achieve successes as a democracy. The formation of the Indian Independence Act 1947 and the eventual liberation from the British Raj resulted …show more content…
Of course, India was dominated by a foreign cooption under the British Raj, which defined a slow evolutionary process in creating this type of European parliamentary system of democracy. Throughout the course of this development, the Indian peoples eventually overcame British dominance with the Indian Independence Act 1947 and, eventually, India became a republic in 1950. After these astonishing success, India slowly evolved into a democracy over the course of many years, but not without some doubts about the success of this …show more content…
For instance, during the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the city of Calicut helped to diffuse the religious animosity that had occurred during the political upheaval of Hindu nationalism. For example, there were rumors of pigs being thrown into mosques by Hindus, which caused riots and chaos, I this region: “Such rumors often led to riots in several cities in India and frequently did so in Aligarh. In Calicut the peace committees and the press helped the administration quash the rumors” (Varshney, 2001, p.381). This type of centralized government helped to devolve the irrationality of religious conflict, which had typically been an obstacle to any form of democratization under the