Elections and Ethnic Politics in India
In the next few days, polling is to begin in Uttar Pradesh, the state where coalition politics first began with the rise of Chaudhari Charan Singh in the 1960s, who went on to become the fifth Prime Minister of India. Uttar Pradesh has provided India with eight Prime Ministers. It also saw the emergence of ethnic politics and challenged the secular noti…
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