A democracy based on peaceful demonstrations rather than on a coup or forced government changes is one in which millions of citizens decided to take action for their own future economic and democratic benefit. The political system India has is based on the political culture of the society that governed it - which is England. The Indian system of justice, according to the CIA World Factbook is based on English common law. But because India is 80% Hindu, 13.4% Muslim and 2.3% Christian, the country has separate codes of law for those three religions. In fact, there is a great deal of hostility between Muslims and Hindu people, so separate law codes show that India has adopted Classical Liberalism.
Classical Liberalism that has evolved into New Liberalism in India means an open democracy where the government uses a free market and fairness in matters of justice along with regular elections for local political systems and at the national level the election of persons to two houses of Parliament, a president and vice president, a supreme court, and good diplomatic relations with most other countries.
How would Leninism work in India? This question can be answered in three words:...
There are one and a half billion people in India, and their culture has come through a colonial period (during which time the British exploited the natural resources of India and enforced harsh sanctions against those who would challenge British authority) and now is a very successful democracy. The very thought of overthrowing the existing government in order to establish a Lenin-like system would be unthinkable, unconscionable and unworkable too. Moreover, India has become an economic giant by handling outsourced work from American and other Western corporations. Attempting to change India's political and economic structure into a Leninist revolutionary country at this point in India's history would be impossible and impractical as well.
Works Cited
Central Intelligence Agency. "The World Factbook: India." Retrieved May 18, 2008, at http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html#people.
Princeton University. "Leninism." Retrieved May 18, 2008, at http://wordnet.princeton.edu.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "Liberalism." Retrieved May 19, 2008, at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism.
