The First Indian Election: Inclusion, Independence and the Making of ‘We, The People’
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The First Indian Election: Inclusion, Independence and the Making of ‘We, The People’

The distinctive independence that the Indian Constitution stipulated for the Election Commission belongs to ‘WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA’. This is so in a literal sense, because the people had a key role in re-shaping the final constitutional provisions for elections.