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Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy: Varshney Ashutosh

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Non-fiction:Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy: Varshney Ashutosh, Rs. 599

Collection of essays that analyses the deepening of Indian democracy since 1947 and the challenges this has created.

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