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Is legitimacy of key political institutions declining in India ? Discuss this issue in the context of the process of nation-building.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Politics and Society in India

For Max Weber, legitimacy is the belief in the validity of an order: where it fails, authority survives only as coercion. Nation-building consumes legitimacy faster than it generates it, having to deliver development and accommodate difference at once. The Indian answer is therefore not yes or no, but a redistribution of legitimacy across institutions and…

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  • Where India's legitimacy came from
  • The case for decline
  • The case against
  • Legitimacy and nation-building
  • Conclusion

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