Publisher |
Bloomsbury Academic India |
Publication Year |
2019 |
ISBN-13 |
9789388271783 |
ISBN-10 |
9789388271783 |
Binding |
Hardcover |
Number of Pages |
266 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Weight (grms) |
295 |
Political Representation in India: Ideas and Contestations, 1908-1952 maps extensive and wide-ranging debates, marked by contestations and strident demands on political representation in colonial India. Further, it explores these themes during the Constitution-framing process. These debates, previously overlooked, are significant for they helped shape the institutional structures of political representation in the form of the electoral system of Indian democracy. It assists in providing an answer to why and how independent India came to adopt its current electoral system characterised by the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) system. It also analyses how and why the alternatives to FPTP, primarily any form of proportional representation, were rejected.
Abhay V Datar
Abhay V. Datar is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, People's College, Nanded (affiliated to the Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded). His research interests include the political and social history of modern India and modern Maharashtra, electoral politics in India and Indian political thinking.
Abhay V Datar
Bloomsbury Academic India