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Comment: Upsurge in political participation among the marginalised communities in the Indian General Elections during the last two decades.

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Yogendra Yadav, reading the Lokniti-CSDS National Election Studies, called it the second democratic upsurge ("Understanding the Second Democratic Upsurge", in Transforming India, 2000). The first upsurge, of the late 1960s, carried the intermediate peasant castes into power. The second, from about 1989, brought in Dalits, Adivasis, lower OBCs, the poor, rural voters and women. Its…

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