The Great March Of Democracy

Download or read book The Great March of Democracy written by S Y Quraishi and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As India gears up for its seventeenth Lok Sabha elections in 2019, the Election Commission of India, responsible for conducting elections in the country, marks the beginning of its seventieth year. This book commemorates the occasion, celebrating seven decades of the country's vibrant electoral democracy. With essays written by prominent analysts, politicians, academics, psephologists, former chief election commissioners, and many others, The Great March of Democracy covers a range of subjects from the birth and evolution of the Election Commission, the exciting story of the first electoral roll and the first general elections, to the criminalization of politics, electoral reforms, and so on.