India’s Democracy at 60
At midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born on a subcontinent wracked with violence, ripped apart by a bloody partition, and an extraordinary profusion of ethnic groups, religions, and mutually incomprehensible languages. Yet, 60 years later, India offers striking lessons in constructing, against all odds, a working democracy.
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At midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born on a subcontinent ripped apart by a bloody partition. Independent India came into being as flames blazed across the land, corpse-laden trains crossed the new frontier with Pakistan, and weary refugees abandoned everything to seek a new life. A less propitious start for a fledgling nation could scarcely be imagined.