Democracy in India
India was the 19th most
V-Dem Democracy indices in 2023 with a score of 0.399 out of 1.[1]
flawed democracy.[2]
Democratic backsliding
According to
autocratisers in the last 10 years".[4] Free political speech is limited.[5] Gerrymandering is another challenge to democracy in India.[6][7]
History
Early
Diodorus writes two centuries after the time of Alexander the Great about democratic states in India,[9] but lacks evidence for elections considering the word "democracy" around the 3rd century BCE could mean any autonomous state.[10][11] In the 10th century, the election of local representatives for the village bodies during the Chola Empire is claimed in Vaikunda Perumal Temple's inscriptions.[12][13][14]
See also
References
- ^ V-Dem Institute (2023). "The V-Dem Dataset". Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ Dutta, Anisha (22 June 2023). "India secretly works to preserve reputation on global Democracy Index". The Guardian.
- ^ Pillai, Shreeya and Lindberg, Staffan I. (2021) "Democracy Broken Down: India" in Democracy Report 2021: Autocratization Turns Viral pp.20–21. V-Dem Institute
- ^ "India Is 'One of the Worst Autocratisers in the Last 10 Years,' Says 2023 V-Dem Report". The Wire. 7 March 2023.
- ^ "Democratic Backsliding in India, the World's Largest Democracy". V-Dem Institute. 24 February 2020. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ Forbes India Investigation: India's most gerrymandered constituencies, Karthik Shashidhar, 2019
- ^ India 'gerrymanders' Kashmir region in redrawn electoral map, 2022
- ^ Robinson, 1997, p. 23
- ^ Diodorus 2.39
- ^ Larsen, 1973, pp. 45–46
- ^ de Sainte, 2006, pp. 321–3
- ^ R., Nagaswamy (2003). Uttaramerur. Chennai: Tamil Arts Academy. pp. 12–16.
- ISBN 9788170173984.
- ^ Vaikunta perumal temple inscriptions, Uttiramerur, TN and democratic election practices 1000 years ago, Navrang India, September 02, 2022
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