India: Fragmentation Amid Consensus

Issue Date January 1997
Volume 8
Issue 1
Page Numbers 56-69
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About the Author

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is president of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and a member of the global faculty of the New York University School of Law. He has taught at Harvard and Jawaharlal Nehru universities, and is author of The Burden of Democracy (2003).

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