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Deeper Vulnerabilities of India’s Democracy
A ‘We the People’ Lecture
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Democracy, representing the will of the people, is the least imperfect form of government in the present day world. Yet even this will of the people can’t remain unfettered, for without constitutional limits, democracy is often distorted. What then are the challenges to India’s constitutional democracy? This lecture will speak of the multiple obstacles to Constitutional Democracy but will focus on deep rooted, long standing mental and social habits that prevent the smooth functioning of constitutional democracy in India.
This lecture is the first in the series titled ‘We the People’ to celebrate 75 years of our Constitution. As part of this series, DAKSH, in collaboration with BIC, are organising a series of lectures and panel discussions on various aspects of the Constitution.
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Rajeev Bhargava
Rajeev Bhargava was until recently a professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. He was the Director of the Centre between 2007-14 and is currently the founder-director of the centre’s Parekh Institute of Indian Thought. He is a permanent (honorary) fellow at Balliol College (Oxford).
He has been a professor of political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Delhi, a fellow in Ethics at Harvard University, Columbia University, Stanford University, New York University, Institute of Advanced Studies (Jerusalem), Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin), Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna), Australian Catholic University (Sydney), and University of Leipzig.
His many publications include Reimagining Indian Secularism (2023), Between Hope and Despair (2022), The Promise of India’s Secular Democracy (2010), Politics and Ethics of The Indian Constitution (2008), Secularis
