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India, Pakistan, and democracy : solving the puzzle of divergent paths
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- Creator
- Philip Oldenburg
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- English
- Publication
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- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2010
- Physical Details
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- x, 273 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780203847152, 9786612781445, 1136939296, 9780415780193, 1282781448, 113693930X, 0203847156, 0415780195, 0415780187, 9780415780186
- OCLC
- ocn664551632, ocn441141251, ocn671763075
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not (yet?) a democracy -- The first thirty years of independence -- Inheritances of colonial rule -- Constitutional & political choices, in the initial years -- Institutionalizing democracy -- Who (really) governs? -- From 1977 to the present -- 1977 as a turning point? -- Religion as an explanation -- External influences -- Clearly diverging paths -- Prospects for path convergence in the next decades