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Ep 336: Shruti Rajagopalan Dives Into Delimitation

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Origins of the Universal Adult Franchise in India

India was exceptional in the fact that it introduced universal adult franchise of the birth of the republic virtually no one else in that time had done it. India from day one was universal adult franchise and it was founded upon the belief of one person one vote, which is why each person's vote matters the same. If you are born in Bihar or Uttar Pradesh your vote will matter less than if you're born in Tamil Nadu or Kerala because migration is just too small to count in this context. It's really a birth accident and a new kind of democratic caste system hierarchy that we've developed right?

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