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This volume is a comparative study of democracy in India and the United States, using as its basis Alexis de Tocqueville's landmark study Democracy in America. It frames the comparison in terms of the distinct trajectories of the United States and India-the former as moving 'from equality' at birth towards new forms of inequality over time, and the latter moving 'towards equality' from an inegalitarian social order at independence. Examining the experience of democracy in two of the world's olde

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Partha Chatterjee (editor), Ira Katznelson (editor)
Publisher
IRL Press at Oxford University Press
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780199081745
Category
politics
Subjects
Political Science, Democracy, Comparative Politics
Updated
2026-03-25

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