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Democracy and Development in India

In: Democracy and Development

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  • Sudipta Kaviraj

    (School of Oriental and African Studies)

  • Kumkum Sangari

    (Centre for Contemporary Studies)

Abstract

In some ways it is better not to treat democracy as a governmental form though that imparts to it a pleasing tangibility that quantitatively inclined political scientists, such as Almond and Verba (1963), liked so much. A better strategy, in the case of the third world, is to treat it, more problematically, as a ‘language’, a way of conceiving, and in propitious circumstances of making, the world.1 This has considerable advantages. It might help us capture both the ubiquity of democracy in the third world and its fragile tenuousness: the idea of democracy exerts considerable influence on third world politics not because it is realized in a governmental form, but through this powerful intangibility of political imagination.

Suggested Citation

  • Sudipta Kaviraj & Kumkum Sangari, 1995. "Democracy and Development in India," International Economic Association Series, in: Amiya Kumar Bagchi (ed.), Democracy and Development, chapter 4, pages 92-137, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-24076-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24076-0_4
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