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Identify the major pressure-groups in Indian Politics and examine their role in it.

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  • Party System

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Pressure groups are organised interests that seek to influence policy without contesting for office. In India they rest on Article 19(1)(c), the freedom of association. Myron Weiner's The Politics of Scarcity (1962) was the first systematic map of them. Gabriel Almond's typology of associational, non-associational, institutional and anomic groups is the clearest way to identify…

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  • Identifying the major groups
  • Their role
  • Limits of that role
  • Conclusion
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