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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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