The Indian Democracy (Dichotomy of Hindu- Muslims): From Victorian England to Modi Raj

ABSTRACT

The world in the 20th century broke the chain of colonization and slavery and has seen the rise of Democracy as the new rule of law. India which was a single nation till the evening of 14th august 1947, eventually carved out into three separate nation states in form of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India itself. This paper attempts to analyses the adoption of democracy as the rule of law in the Indian subcontinent. This article traces the development of the democracy in India from the ashes of the partition to being the world's largest democracy. The beginning of the third decade of the 21st century is marked with the devastating second wave of the coronavirus in India. India being the world's largest functioning democracy has seen the people waiting outside the crematorium with the bodies of their loved ones to lay them on the pyres and on the other hand it also seen the election campaigns and the elections in the coastal state of West Bengal. This raises some serious questions about the functioning of democracy in India. This paper attempts to analyses and understand the Indian democracy from being a demand from the colonial masters to being the world's largest democracy with a crippling public sector and poor performance in the various development indexes. Thus, this article will help the readers to understand that the Indian democracy is just a simple flawed version of the democracy borrowed from the Victorian England or it is just a myth.