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Sixty Years of Indian Democracy: An Unfinished Project - Niraja Gopal Jayal at Sydney Ideas

India's democratic record provides a spirited repudiation of the predictions of the doomsayers of the early post-independence period, who argued that a society marked by multiple ethnic cleavages and desperate poverty could scarcely sustain democratic institutions. Leading Indian academic Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal talked about the success story of India's democratic institutions at Sydney Ideas, the University of Sydney's international lecture series.

(Running time: 74:12)

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The interview Sixty Years of Indian Democracy: An Unfinished Project with Professor Jayal, which was broadcast on the Australian ABC Radio National, 04 October 2007, can be found here.