Abstract
Speaking politically and historically, the Indian party system has its origins in the nationalist movement for freedom from colonial rule in British India, the incremental extension of the franchise since the early twentieth century and the introduction of universal adult franchise under the Constitution of independent India, which has been enforced since 1950. If democratisation has been the primary causal or independent variable producing the party system we have got today, the Indian social structure, with its regional and multicultural variations and the nature of the parliamentary-federal Constitution under which Indian democracy has operated for over seven decades now, are the intervening or intermediating variables that have shaped the party system’s patterns and trends. In other words, the primary effects of democratic mobilisation on the party system have been funnelled through the Indian political history and diverse cultural and social setting and the nature of the Indian Constitution.
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