Political Science in India: A Discipline and Intellectual Pursuit

Political Science is not merely a discipline but an intellectual pursuit that goes beyond the boundaries of the discipline. It has the potential to provide conceptual tools for reconstruction of social relations. We, in India, are in need of a political theory empirically grounded and oriented to ch...

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Published in:Indian journal of political science 2001-03, Vol.62 (1), p.11-23
Main Author: Shah, Ghanshyam
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Democracy
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Liberalism
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Political Science Theories
Political systems
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