PSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Indira Gandhi, Firefighter, Dowry
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It"s an outlier, however, the population is 1. 2 billion (big outlier) India"s poor - was an agrarian state in the past. Main reasons: social divisions within the castes, languages, religion. Religion: majority of india is hindu (81%, muslim (12%, some christian. However, it still matters: outside cities, special rights - reserved seats in parliament. Divided country by british - to separate the hindu-muslim religion. Wars between indo-pakistan: 1947, 1965, 1971, 1991. Had authoritarian episodes - indira gandhi from 1975 - 1977. Democracy is flawed: has human rights violations. Violence: dowry deaths, cooking fire - women. 37 million missing women since the 1990s. 88 girls for every 100 boys in some states. Universal adult suffrage since 1950: brief interruption. Impacts: built broad-based political movement, reached out to those at the bottom; poor, made congress party into a mass party. Wise leadership: reworked federal system, common languages reworked as states. Under gandhi, transformed into a mass party ( with poor people)
