Democracy on the Subcontinent: South Asia at Sixty

Elections postponed in Bangladesh, growing doubts about plans for polling in Pakistan, yet India boasts it is the world’s biggest democracy. Sixty years on from independence, what explains the divergence?

The World Today Published 1 August 2007 Updated 15 October 2020 4 minute READ

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