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India's tryst with parliamentary democracy

At a time when Parliament is about to be relocated to a new building, 'House of the People' offers an insightful look into the evolution of representative bodies in India and their functioning today

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House of the People: Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy

Rup Narayan Das
House of the People: Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy 
Author: Ronojoy Sen 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 
Pages: 320 
Price: Rs 1,095

At a time when India is celebrating 75 years of democracy, the book House of the People: Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy by Ronojoy Sen is a welcome addition to the corpus of studies on the functioning of Indian democracy. Dr Sen, who did his PhD at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, acknowledged American scholars on India, has been closely following political developments in India including the working of the Indian Parliament.

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