TY - BOOK TI - India, Pakistan, and Democracy: solving the puzzle of divergent paths SN - 9780415780193 U1 - 320.954 PY - 2010///-09-02 CY - New York : PB - Routledge N1 - Why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not (yet?) a democracy -- The first thirty years of independence -- Inheritances of colonial rule -- Constitutional & political choices, in the initial years -- Institutionalizing democracy -- Who (really) governs? -- From 1977 to the present -- 1977 as a turning point? -- Religion as an explanation -- External influences -- Clearly diverging paths -- Prospects for path convergence in the next decades. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject: Democracy -- India. Democracy -- Pakistan. Democratization -- India. Democratization -- Pakistan. India -- Politics and government -- 1947- Pakistan -- Politics and government. India -- Colonial influence. Pakistan -- Colonial influence ER -