Democracy in India – World Research Weblog
Columbia College Libraries is happy to announce the launch of a brand new part of the: “New and Featured Books” within the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This show will embrace a set of circulating gadgets from our collections which might be curated round a subject of worldwide relevance. Show themes rotate each semester, and have books in three classes: newly-published titles, standard titles, and Columbia authors. You possibly can try these books on the Butler Circulation Desk (third ground), OR on the Self-Test Kiosks (in the principle foyer or on the third ground) OR use Columbia Libraries’ Self-Test app!
“Democracy in India” is the second theme within the Fall 2023/Spring 2024 of the New and Featured Books program. Established as a Sovereign Democratic Republic primarily based on the Structure of India, India has existed as the most important democracy on this planet from January 26th, 1950 onwards, with a parliamentary authorities system. Encompassing 28 states and eight union territories, with a 2024 inhabitants of 1.44 billion, Indian democracy has coexisted with the legacy of a caste system, a number of languages and scripts, and competing forces of non secular pluralism and secularism, main Robert Alan Dahl in 1998 to characterize India as “an inconceivable democracy.” The query posed by the title of a latest symposium within the Journal of Democracy (vol. 34, no. 3, July 2023), “”Is India Nonetheless a Democracy?” has been vigorously debated in educational circles and past. Included listed here are consultant scholarly works on the contrapuntal forces of democracy, communalism, and ethno-nationalism in India, and their impression on the lives of 1.44 billion Indians. Additionally included are examples of dystopian fiction and political cartoons expressing modern anxieties round native and world struggles towards consultant and accountable governmental constructions.
An inventory of the books chosen for the exhibit is obtainable on-line.
For additional help, please contact the South Asian Research Librarian;
Dr. Gary Hausman ([email protected] ), division of World Research at Columbia College Libraries.
