This book makes an attempt to understand and explain the way Indian democracy has taken shape in recent years. It seeks to provide insights into different dimensions of India’s democratic experiment. Although covering the various issues relating to democratic challenges in Indian Polity is a herculean task, in this volume an effort has been made to incorporate papers focusing on various dimensions of Indian polity. It also tends to unravel and explain the myriad challenges that have emerged before the Indian state particularly in the post-liberalized era. However, it has also dealt with many such issues which have been haunting Indian State since Independence like secularism, group rights etc.

Covering as vast subject as Indian Politics in a single volume is a gargantuan task and therefore many issues could not be covered due to paucity of time and space. However, effort has been made to make it distinct from the books that are available in the market and therefore many new and unexplored aspects of Indian democracy have been covered in this book. It has tried to explain the various socio-economic and political transformations that have take place in India over a period of time and how this has impacted political institutions.