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Write short note with a sociological perspective on the following : Regional political elites and the democratic process.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Politics and Society in India

Regional political elites are leaders whose power base, idiom and constituency lie within a state or sub-region rather than the national centre. Their rise is the single most consequential change in India's power structure since the 1960s, and it has both deepened democratic participation and strained the working of national institutions.

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  • How they emerged
  • What they do to the democratic process
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