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How India Became Democratic<\/em>\u00a0explores the greatest experiment in democratic human history. It tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of the universal adult franchise in the world’s largest democracy. The book offers a new view of the institutionalisation of democracy in India, and of the way democracy captured the political imagination of its diverse peoples.\u00a0Drawing on rich archival materials, the book shows how the Indian people were a driving force in the making of democratic citizenship as they struggled for their voting rights.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ornit Shani is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa. She is a scholar of the politics and modern history of India. Ornit received her PhD from the University of Cambridge.\u00a0She was a Research Fellow at St John\u2019s College, Cambridge University.\u00a0Her current research focuses on the modern history of democracy and citizenship in India.<\/p>\n

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