Recent Developments in Indian Politics
Indian politics after 1990 looks very different from the Congress-dominated decades, and this closing chapter of NCERT Politics in India Since Independence, Chapter 8, explains why. It surveys the rise of coalition governments at the Centre, the Mandal Commission recommendations and their fallout, the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and the demolition of the Babri Masjid, economic liberalisation, and the growing assertion of regional parties, Dalits, and Other Backward Classes. The chapter ends with the Congress-led and BJP-led alliances of the 2000s and the question of what durable coalitions mean f
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