Did India ever have a dictatorship?
It is not a surprise that India never had dictatorship as per the classical definitions. But India was neither a democracy before Independence. So technically the entire world is new to a system called democracy. Most of the people still have confusion what is democracy.
Is the BJP ‘systematically crushing the voice of the Indian people’?
He claimed that the BJP was “systematically crushing the voice of the Indian people” by undermining democratic institutions, and that Modi’s re-election would result in “unimaginable levels of violence and pain for India”, said AP. “Our democracy has been fundamentally weakened.
Why is the BJP so popular in India?
BJP, whether you like it or not maybe the first party to truly understand the crux of Indian Society and worked accordingly. In other words, they showed the society the mirror. It helped society remove the fake mask it wore for 3 decades in the name of development or liberalism.
Was India a democracy before independence?
India has a parliamentary form of democracy while the US has presidential whereas France has a mix of two. It is not a surprise that India never had dictatorship as per the classical definitions. But India was neither a democracy before Independence.
Does India have more than one party system?
So, India just had nothing more than one party- system just when democracy was born. This continued even after Indira Gandhi was shot dead. Even she herself endorsed one-sided dictatorial slogans like India is Indira and Indira is India. Under her tenure, we had the emergency declared where opposition leaders were jailed.
Who are some examples of dictators in history?
You have also had dictators like Shah in Iran, Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Libyan Muhammed Gaddafi. Most of the dictators are secular contrary to that they are religious fanatics.