POLI 322 Lecture Notes - Krishak Sramik Party, All Jammu And Kashmir Muslim Conference, Pakistan Movement
14 Mar 2014
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Indian nationalism quite effective in building a sense of a nation cutting across religious and sub national groups many initiatives in post colonial area: dint prevent succession. Power of the state played a rold in preventing succession demands. Congress party movement somewhat strong institutions formed. The presence of a strong party helped consolidate democ in post colonial era. Majority of post colonial countries at that time dint have stable democ. But the congress was strong and dominant party. Second strongest party pretty much moved to paki. That could have been bad news for democ in india. People had got used to living with some amount of differences. From within the congress party emerged some of the main opposition parties. Like the socialist and communist party (left of the congress) Hindu nationalist and libertarian parties (right of congress) Their presence also helped build a competitive party politics. It wasn"t easy to agree on programs due to ideological scence.
