Delimitation and States Reorganisation: For a Better Democracy in Bharat
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Delimitation and States Reorganisation: For a Better Democracy in Bharat
Specifications
- Language:ENGLISH
- Format: PAPERBACK
- Pages: 275 pages
- ISBN-13: 9789365478426
- Item Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Genre: Politics
Description
A feature of any modern democracy is that each vote cast freely has the same value. This, however, is not true of India today because of an abnormal delimitation freeze for the last 50 years. This anomaly is magnified by the greatly differing sizes of the constituent states, which is an outcome of historical accident and political short-termism. To strengthen democracy, two important changes in polity need to be simultaneously implemented: delimitation and redrawing of state boundaries; one n
Gautam R. Desiraju
Gautam Desiraju is one of India’s foremost scientists, with an h-index of 104 and seminal contributions to the fields of crystal engineering and hydrogen bonding. He is Professor Emeritus at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Distinguished Professor at UPES, Dehradun. Desiraju served as the President of the International Union of Crystallography from 2011 to 2014. He is a recipient of several prestigious international awards, including the Humboldt Research Award and the van der Waals Prize. He is also the author of Bhārat: India 2.0, a book that advocates for constitutional refor
