Topics
Power-sharing
Power Sharing
India and the Contemporary World 2
Development
- Concept for Traditional Notion of Development
- Concept for National Income and Percapita Income
- Concept of Growth of National Income
- Critical Appraisal of Existing Development Indicators (PCI, IMR, SR and Other Income and Health Indicators)
- Need for Health and Educational Development
- Human Development Indicators (Holistic Measure of Development)
India and the Contemporary World 2
Development
The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
- Introduction to the Rise of Nationalism in Europe
- The French Revolution and the Idea of the Nation
- The Making of Nationalism in Europe
- Introduction to the Making of Nationalism in Europe
- The Aristocracy and the New Middle Class
- What Did Liberal Nationalism Stand For?
- A New Conservatism After 1815
- The Revolutionaries
- The Age of Revolutions: 1830 - 1848
- Introduction to the Age of Revolutions: 1830 - 1848
- The Romantic Imagination and National Feeling
- Hunger, Hardship and Popular Revolt
- 1848: The Revolution of the Liberals
- The Making of Germany and Italy
- Germany - Can the Army Be the Architect of a Nation?
- Italy Unified
- The Strange Case of Britain
- Visualising the Nation
- Nationalism and Imperialism
Resources and Development
Resources and Development
Contemporary India 2
Sectors of the Indian Economy
Federalism
Sectors of the Indian Economy
Forest and Wildlife Resources
Federalism
Nationalism in India
- Introduction to Nationalism in India
- The First World War, Khilafat and Non-cooperation
- The Idea of Satyagraha
- The Rowlatt Act
- Why Non-cooperation?
- Differing Strands Within the Movement
- The Movement in the Towns
- Rebellion in the Countryside
- Swaraj in the Plantations
- Towards Civil Disobedience
- The Salt March and the Civil Disobedience Movement
- How Participants Saw the Civil Disobedience Movement
- The Limits of Civil Disobedience
- The Sense of Collective Belonging
Contemporary India 2
Forest and Wildlife Resources
Democracy and Diversity
Democratic Politics 2
Money and Credit
Democratic Politics 2
Democracy and Diversity
The Making of a Global World
- Concept of the Pre-modern World
- The Nineteenth Century (1815 - 1914)
- A World Economy Takes Shape
- Role of Technology
- Late Nineteenth-century Colonialism
- Rinderpest, Or the Cattle Plague
- Indentured Labour Migration from India
- Indian Entrepreneurs Abroad
- Indian Trade, Colonialism and the Global System
- The Inter-war Economy
- Wartime Transformations
- Post-war Recovery
- Rise of Mass Production and Consumption
- The Great Depression
- India and the Great Depression
- Rebuilding a World Economy: The Post-war Era
- Post-war Settlement and the Bretton Woods Institutions
- The Early Post-war Years
- Decolonisation and Independence
- End of Bretton Woods and the Beginning of ‘Globalisation’
Water Resources
Water Resources
Money and Credit
Understanding Economic Development
Agriculture
Understanding Economic Development
Globalisation and the Indian Economy
- Introduction to Globalisation and the Indian Economy
- Production Across Countries
- Interlinking Production Across Countries
- Foreign Trade and Integration of Markets
- Globalisation
- Factors that Have Enabled Globalisation
- World Trade Organisation (WTO)
- Impact of Globalisation in India
- The Struggle for a Fair Globalisation
Gender, Religion and Caste
Gender, Religion and Caste
Globalisation and the Indian Economy
The Age of Industrialisation
- Introduction to the Age of Industrialisation
- Before the Industrial Revolution
- Hand Labour and Steam Power
- Concept of Hand Labour and Steam Power
- Life of the Workers
- Industrialisation in the Colonies
- The Age of Indian Textiles
- What Happened to Weavers?
- Manchester Comes to India
- Factories Come up
- The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth
- Market for Goods
Agriculture
Minerals and Energy Resources
Popular Struggles and Movements
Print Culture and the Modern World
- Introduction to Print Culture and the Modern World
- The First Printed Books
- Print Comes to Europe
- Print Comes to Europe - Introduction
- Gutenberg and the Printing Press
- The Print Revolution and Its Impact
- A New Reading Public
- Religious Debates and the Fear of Print
- Print and Dissent
- The Reading Mania
- The Nineteenth Century
- India and the World of Print
- Religious Reform and Public Debates
- New Forms of Publication
- Introduction to New Forms of Publication
- Women and Print
- Print and the Poor People
- Print and Censorship
Popular Struggles and Movements
Consumer Rights
Minerals and Energy Resources
- Classification of Minerals
- Distribution of Minerals and Energy Resources
- Use and Economic Importance of Minerals
- Conservation of Minerals
- Types of Power Resources - Conventional Sources
- Types of Power Resources - Non-conventional Sources
- Distribution and Utilization and Conservation of Power Resources
- Conservation of Energy Resources
Data Filling
Consumer Rights
Manufacturing Industries
Political Parties
Political Parties
Manufacturing Industries
Life Lines of National Economy
Outcomes of Democracy
Outcomes of Democracy
Lifelines of National Economy
Challenges to Democracy
Challenges to Democracy
Livelihoods, Economies and Societies
- Concept of the Pre-modern World
- Nineteenth Century Global Economy, Colonialism
- The Inter-war Economy
- A World Economy Takes Shape
- Proto-industrialization and Pace of Industrial Change
- Life of Workers
- Industrialization in the Colonies
- Early Entrepreneurs and Workers
- The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth
- Market for Goods
- Development of Modern Cities Due to Industrialization in London and Bombay
- Housing and Land Reclamation
- Social Changes in the Cities
- Cities and the Challenge of the Environment
Events and Processes
- Growth of Nationalism in Europe After the 1830s.
- Ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini
- Characteristics of the Movements in Poland, Hungary,Italy, Germany and Greece
- Factors Leading to Growth of Nationalism in Indo-china
- French Colonialism in Indo-china
- Phases of Struggle Against the French
- The Ideas of Phan Chu Trinh
- The Ideas Phan Boi Chau, Ho Chi Minh
- Second World War and the Liberation Struggle.
- America and the Vietnam War
- Impact of First World War, Khilafat, Non- Cooperation
- Differing Strands Within the Movement
- The Limits of Civil Disobedience
- The Sense of Collective Belonging
- Salt Satyagraha
- Movements of Peasants, Workers, Tribals.
Everyday Life, Culture and Politics
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Given below are some spheres or sites of democratic politics. You may place against each of these the specific challenges that you noted for one or more countries or cartoons in the previous section. In addition to that write one item for India for each of these spheres. In case you find that some challenges do not fit into any of the categories given below, you can create new categories and put some items under that.
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Let us group these again, this time by the nature of these challenges as per the classification suggested in the first section. For each of these categories, find at least one example from India as well.
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Now let us think only about India. Think of all the challenges that democracy faces in contemporary India. List those five that should be addressed first of all. The listing should be in order of priority, i.e, the challenge you find most important or pressing should be mentioned at number 1, and so on. Give one example of that challenge and your reasons for assigning it the priority.
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Write a description of the challenges for democracy in the following situations.
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Case and Context
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Mexico: Second free election after the defeat of PRI in 2000; defeated candidates alleges rigging. |
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China: The Communist party adopts economic reforms but maintains a monopoly over political power. |
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Pakistan: General Musharraf holds referendum, allegations of fraud in the voter's list. |
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Iraq: Widespread sectarian violence as the new government fails to establish its authority. |
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South Africa: Mandela retires from active politics; pressure on his successor Mbeki to withdraw some concessions given to the white minority. |
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US, Guantanamo Bay: UN Secretary General calls this a violation of international law; US refused to respond. |
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Saudi Arabia: Women were not allowed to take part in public activities, no freedom of religion for the minority. |
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Yugoslavia: Ethnic tension between Serbs and Albanians on the rise in the province of Kosovo; Yugoslavia disintegrated. |
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Belgium: One round of constitutional change taken place, but the Dutch speakers not satisfied; they want more autonomy. |
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Sri Lanka: Peace talks between the government and LTTE breaks down, renewed violence. |
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US, Civil Rights: Blacks have won equal rights, but they are still poor, less educated and marginalised. |
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Northern Ireland: The civil war has ended but Catholics and Protestants yet to develop trust. |
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Nepal: Constituent Assembly about to be elected; unrest in Taraiareas; Maoists have not surrendered arms. |
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Bolivia: Morales, a supporter of water struggle, becomes the Prime Minister, MNC's threaten to leave the country. |
