Conclusion

Abstract

The democratic process in India has followed a political sequence of its own. Given the problem of hierarchy, vast income disparity, traditional attitude to authority, and above all uncrystallised party organisations, her sequential political response has registered the following priorities: the need to build a secular and uninhibited political participation across the ethnic and religious divide; the need to make all strata of society aware of the possible instrumental use of such participation; and finally, the need to build party organisations which will work towards the realisation of its goals rather than perform managerial functions only.