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Trends in Politics
Shashidhar Patil
Nehru era
One party dominance
Indira era starts
Emergency
Then Rajiv Gandhi era
Beginning of coalition politics
caste , religion, corruption in Indian politics
Voters demanding governance
Rise of federalism
Terms in Indian Politics
Politics
Coalition Politics
Planning Commission
Inclusive Growth
Opposition Party
Silence
India’s favourite sport
Ally is never a friend and a firend need not be an ally
Keeps poverty in India low, by definition
Every party will get an opportunity to stand in the way of growth
A party guilty of exactly the same things it accuses government of
Those who shall speak the lease shall be the PM longest
Indian society is vulnerable
Irreversibility of choices
Largest ever rural to urban transition
Identity wars
Medieval
Federalism
Most Indian politics
is mathematics
State is increasingly getting
society is getting more
intolerant
tolerant
scope of what is offensive is increasing
Narrative of victimhood
Icons and not their thoughts
Political Insecurity
Political consensus, not normative
Expanding categories of backwardness
Moderate middle has expanded
System will not excuse what it excused in 1984
Women
“Ethical maturity of society will be measured by how women fare in it”
Law creates its own fear
Judiciary is political
unbiased
“In India we don’t get punishement after due process
due process is the punishment”
Lack of intellectual
self-confidence
Serious lack of intellectual self-confidence
Lack of credibility of media and academics
“It is hard to imagine India achieving any
measure of greatness, if it
cannot take its own measure.”
Centre and States
Power
Education
Urbanisation
Devolution
In mess
Not one national class university
Imbalances
Not done
“States should grow
in importance but
they are not panacea to all our
problems”
Foreign Policy
Effective management of international environment
Central challenges cut across disciplines
Governance revolution
Vertical accountability
Secrecy
Discretion
Centralisation
Horizontal accountability
RTI, mobilisation of Information
Elimination of arbitrariness
Federalism
“Congress is trying to win, BJP is trying to win,
I hope in the end India wins”
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