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Who is the most educated person in Indian politics? 

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And educated citizens are among the most invested partisans.
Given their large number and the country's democratic system, the poor do have some weight in Indian politics.
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01 Jan 1975
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Its value lies in its comprehensiveness: it does not look exclusively at Nehru's politics or his inner life and psychology, but shows how Nehru's mind was shaped by Indian politics, by colonialism, and by his birth within an elite professional class.
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01 Jan 2017
31 Citations
The data presented in this paper clearly demonstrates that Indian electoral politics remains largely exclusionary in terms of participation of women particularly at the national and State levels.
The rise of communal elements in Indian politics thus followed the mobilization of non‐urban elites and poorer sections of the po...
This incomplete, but irreversible change in Indian society and politics has been authored by the mobilization of some of the most marginalized citizens in the world and counts as one of the most significant achievements of Indian democracy.
I argue that two factors lead to the BJP using the politics of vishwas to dominate Indian politics.
Indeed, it has become one of the chief means by which the Indian mass electorate has been attached to the processes of democratic politics.
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29 Mar 2007-SAIS Review
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Populism is likely to continue in Indian politics, and is particularly significant currently in the mobilization of the lower castes.