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“India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed the Liberal Party in Britain, and they were very proud of their knowledge of parliamentary systems, parliamentary manners. They were big debaters. They [had], as it were, a long apprenticeship in training for being in power. Even when Gandhi made it a mass movement, the idea of elective representatives, elected working committees, elected leadership, all that stayed because basically Indians wanted to impress the British that they were going to be as good as the British were at running a parliamentary democracy. And that helped quite a lot.”
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“There is a surprising consensus within the Indian political system regarding economics. There is no disagreement between the Congress and the BJP about the economy along Western left–right lines. All parties are statist, suspicious of free markets, wary of close association with big business (though relying on them for backhanded financial support), generous with entitlements and reservations, and not overly concerned with fiscal responsibility. The traditional right– left divide is drawn across secular–Hindu nationalist lines, not economic ideology.”
― The Raisina Model: Indian Democracy at 70
― The Raisina Model: Indian Democracy at 70
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