A Forgotten Dawn While the Western world proudly wears the badge of democracy, preaching it as a modern political ideal, ...

Ancient India certainly had democratic and republican ... dean for the social sciences at New York University characterizes early democracy in his book “The Decline and Rise of Democracy ...

India’s claims are shrouded in antiquity ... It is true that a sort of democracy prevailed in ancient Indian villages: Kautilya’s Arthashastra gives a comprehensive account of the system ...

“The roots of democracy are deeply rooted in the Indian soil as traces of the present polity can also be found in the democratic practices of ancient India as mentioned in the ‘Atharva Veda ...

World leaders attending G20 meetings in India have been greeted with the words, “Welcome to the Mother of Democracy”. In one of his latest speeches, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with particular ...

“This itself says democracy can deliver.” Mr Modi also claimed democracy was a common feature in ancient India long before the rest of the world, citing historical references from Hindu ...

In January, when he inaugurated an unfinished, but grand Hindu temple at the site where an ancient ... Critics of India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister argue that democracy itself will ...

One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...