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Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy

Social Science Bites by Michael Todd

Feb 2, 202622:49Society & Culture

A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that -- at least in the India of that moment -- elections were sacred. This was not a religious epipha...

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Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy is an episode from Social Science Bites by Michael Todd. A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that -- at least in the Ind...

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