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has evolved and flourished. This special thing is that we have
book talks about such topics in taken articles from the Rig
its chapters. Vedic period to the colonial
The basic principle of period in this book. There are
democracy is consensus and articles on different subjects
equality. The description of all such as tribal societies and
these things is found in the 5,000 rural societies from different
to 6,000 years-old civilizations corners of the country, on
of India. In many Vedic texts, ancient Vedic and post-Vedic
we find descriptions of sabhas societies, on medieval ages,
and samitis that used to and how democracy continued
operate. India has thousands of to flourish in these different eras
years old villages where even and societies in different forms.
today, consensus-building is The mention of the book,
considered paramount; which 'India: The Mother of Democracy'
we now call the Panchayati by the Prime Minister in such an
System. We have our tribal important programme of the
societies and the whole world country, 'Mann ki Baat' is a big
knows that our tribal societies deal for the ICHR. Sometimes,
used to depend on such a I wonder how and when the
system. Prime Minister finds time to read
We started the work on books amidst his busy schedule.
'India: The Mother of Democracy' Because he mentioned some
in July 2022. The book has 5 5-6 chapters of the book in great
to 6 thematic sections. The detail in his address.
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