..., this process became an all-India administrative exercise in guided democratic political imagination, which diffused the notion of universal franchise within the administrative machinery around the country. This exercise resulted in instituting and operationalizing the procedural aspect of the idea of equality...

... the preparation of the rolls for India’s first election under universal franchise realized These articles grew out of two workshops held at SOAS, University of 1. See Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments; Chatterjee, The Politics London, and at a workshop sponsored...

... forthcoming book is The Making of India’s Democracy: University in Kampala. He is author of Citizen and Universal Franchise and Citizenship in the World’s Largest Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colo...

... and trumpeted their reliance on eco- The achievement of universal franchise and the first nomic liberalization. Their acceptance of the dictates non-racial elections of April 1994 were historic vic- of global economic institutions and regimes such as tories after many decades of struggle. The African...

... of the upper and middle elements of their republic, or a written constitution, or universal franchise, or landed, mercantile, and manufacturing classes.” (p. 113). He regular elections? Also, his statement that the impact of the describes their 1980 program and finds it consonant with the revolution...

... of the Commission would be the introduction of country was left to the first post-independence government. universal adult franchise. The CNC came out in favor of ex- The British would retain use of air and naval bases at Katu- panded territorial representation and against universal adult nayake...

....” Warrants and other similar proce- universal franchise and legislative flexibility — to dural checks on police powers also were not sup- incorporate such contestations. On the other ported by Patel, who argued that such a provision hand, any political expressions unwilling to do...

... of the rallies Kodney held with workers, he re- Indian and African workers (Lowenthal, 1972: minded them that Africans and Indians had 173). Universal franchise came in 1946, but to be allies in the upcoming struggle; party-politics were muted until 1956 when...

... the national and qualifications, the founders of the Union opted instead for a class struggles in South Africa. Attempts to unite the black system of male, whites-only universal franchise.3 groups on the basis of their political, economic, and social Using Indian South Africans as an example...

... to queer black women. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 South Africa Jacob Zuma rape Rudyard Kipling literature and colonial history patriarchy racism Thanks to Sumaya Mall for drawing my attention to the Kipling reference during the Zuma rape trial some years ago, and to Hugh...

... the capitalist frame-work causes its own problems for mobiliza• Jana Sangha (now re-christened as the BJP - Bhartiya Janata tion of votes. India is committed to universal franchise, in a Party) in order to embarrass the Indira Gandhi Government social context in which caste, religion and ethnicity have...

..., the allotment and the majority access to a homestead principle of universal franchise, the form of local site. In many ways this access to land chained the government in the reserves and the possibilities for consciousness of the people to the homelands. Only transforming the communal system...

..., cial legislation. This is not to deny that Indians share which have historically aimed at incorporation into a certain common cultural traditions and experiences unitary and democratic South Africa on the basis of which form the basis for an Indian ethnic identity universal franchise. (Morris...

... University Press, N.C. 1972 . Jayawardena , Kumari Ethnic & Class Conflicts . Centre for Social Analysis, Colombo 1985 . Keerawella , G.B. ‘The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and the 1971 Uprising’, Social Science Review , No. 2 Jan. 1980 . Keerawella , G.B. . ‘Politics...

...• city? No. In accordance with the ture is pyramidal and federal with principle of universal adult the central government at the apex franchise, she has a right to vote and the state governments below in all elections...

... authorities. From revered and legitimate leaders, most nature of chiefly power, which rules out the universal traditional authorities became feared leaders by the franchise. Dismantling tribal authorities is a necessary, majority of rural people. but by no means sufficient...

...-military oligarchy. It never aimed at the development rule based on universal franchise. These elections were held of a bourgeois democratic alternative for Pakistan; it in 1970. In West Pakistan Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party identified its interests with 'stable' authoritarian regimes, (PPP...

... struggles unconditional universal adult franchise during the period that he studied, For in 1953, the PPP proceeded to win a the most part, this was the case right huge victory with the support of the down to the rise of the PPP. Yet...

... traces the genealogical and comparative significance of the following question: Can a nation in which democratic participation is confined exclusively to the local level continue to feel and act as a nation? © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The author would like to thank Brian Silverstein...

... hard multitude of humanity was inaugurated. There were for so long to be able to exercise the right to vote; on two striking features of this experiment: universal adult the other the very success of such mobilization franchise and a multi-party electoral system. Both of reinforced, rather than...