Indian Political System (A Critical Study Of The Constitutional Structure And The Emerging Trends Of Indian Politics)

Introduction

The study of the political system of a country covers not merely the provisions of the Constitution and some institutional arrangements made, or evolved over a period of time, to put them into operation. It also covers all forces which act like the 'inputs' and have their influence on the decisions ('outputs') taken by men-in authority's roles and which have, therefore, a binding character in the form of authoritative allocation of values. For this reason, such a study covers much that pertains to the domain of other sister disciplines. That is, it goes beyond the study of the Constitution or the Constitutional system of the country. The line of distinction between political and para-political phenomena becomes blurred and even patiently non-political issues are covered where they appear to have their role in the political process of the country. It is for this reason that in this book some new topics have been included for presenting an empirical study of this subject.