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Elections in India: Nehru to Vajpayee

 
Arun Kumar (Author)
Synopsis From Nehru to Vajpayee, it has been a roller-coaster ride for the world’s largest democracy. A charismatic leader and a stable phase in the heady years after freedom. A great split in the country’s oldest political party. A strong willed woman leader who turned autocratic. A “Second Azadi” that did not last. The return of the political ‘Dynasty’ and its great fall. A mindless assassination bringing an era to an end. From a virtual single party monopoly to an age of hung Houses and uneasy coalitions and their inevitable coming apart. From a strong Central authority to a truly federal polity, the Indian Union has seen it all. Taking a long look back at the elections in India since Independence, this book traces the ups and downs witnessed by the Indian polity under a dozen Primed Ministers in the fifty years of independence. With graphics and charts on the fluctuating fortunes of the major contenders in each state, if focuses on the last poll of the millennium that appeared to put years of uncertainty behind. Relating the story of how the voter put India, hopefully, back on the road to stability, it also provides a flavour of the campaign, contenders, and the issues that exercised the voters” mind in an election that the country could do without. A complete computer analysis of the shifting voting patterns, makes the account complete.
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About the author

Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar has been watching the Indian poll scene for thirty years as a professional journalist. Since 1989, he has organized the election coverage of the Press Trust of India, the country's premier news agency – on five occasions for the Lok Sabha, besides numerous polls to the state assemblies. This is the fifth in the series of election books by the author. His works include, The Tenth Round: The story off the 1991 elections, The Battle for the Heartland, on the 1993 assembly elections, The Turning Point telling the 1996 poll story and On Coalition Course after the 1998 voting exercise. A Master in Political Science, with international relations, in 1980 he became the first Indian correspondent to serve in Pakistan after the 1965 Indo-Pak war. From one closed society, he went to another – China before returning back to India in 1988. Born in Delhi in 1946, Arun Kumar worked for a Delhi magazine and a newspaper in Ahmedabad before joining PTI in s1969. He now works as a Public Affairs Adviser.

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Bibliographic information

Title Elections in India: Nehru to Vajpayee
Author Arun Kumar
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2001
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8121207681
length 327p., Figures; Tables; Maps; Index; 23cm.