What is the political culture of rural India?

Here’s a generic answer: the political culture of rural [insert country name of your choice] is conservative and often reactionary, jingoistic, though often more for the area’s dominant religion or tribe than the nation as a whole, suspicious of outsiders—especially those who don’t look and talk like them, with a strong preference for traditional ways. read more

attention. But its impact on the 700 million Indians who live in rural India has been profound. It has instituted 2 million little democracies across the country, making the practice of democratic politics, its attendant election cycles, deliberative rituals, and political machinations and negotiations, part of the quotidian landscape of rural life. read more

India India Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. It is known from archaeological evidence that a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the Indus civilization—dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 bce. read more