POL328Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Party System, Vaishya, Endogamy
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Pol328 week 4: politics and government in south asia. India in 1947: freedom through national movements and independence struggle, nehru and his background, differences with ghandi, modernity, strongly wedded for western technology, ghandi was more skeptical of western civilization altogether, fundal ideology was very traditional. In 1946, they were an elected body that were tasked to write the constitution of india: so who made up the constituent assembly, most of the members were members of the congress. In that sense there was a clear continuing in the colonial period but these structures get consolidated. In many ways, the congress being the party that control the state as well as having made this transition from the national movement, many discontent often channeled within the congress: patronage and the congress system. Language has been issue that was most controversial in language debates. Language itself is not something that has symbolic value but in this time it was.
