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Discuss the social base of political parties in India. What has been its impact on Indian democracy ?

  • UPSC 2005
  • Politics and Society in India

A party's social base is the coalition of communities and classes that supplies its votes, funds and cadre. Indian democracy did not dissolve ascriptive ties; it recruited them, so parties assembled out of caste, religion, language and region rather than class alone.

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  • Parties and their social coalitions
  • Impact: a deepening of democracy
  • Impact: fragmentation and distortion
  • Conclusion

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