Articles in "Indian Government & Politics"

Introduction

 India’s political system has attempted to structure its enormous diversity through

the application of the federal principle, and is today widely considered a robust

parliamentary democracy. The seeds of the federal idea were already present in the

Government of India Act 1935, which attempted to contain rising national sentiment with

the grant of limited provincial autonomy. As India celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of

The construction of a reflexive modernity calls for people who can look back at their own society

and correctly identify its greatest challenges. Modernity may be weak and poorly rooted in India,

but this is just the situation in which more sensitivity is called for, not less. While many of the

contradictions created by nineteenth century industrialization are surfacing now in India, the risks of

late industrial societies, too, are making their presence felt. The weakening of social and normative