NCERT Book Class 12 Political Science (Politics In India Since Independence) Chapter 2 Era of One-Party Dominance

Credit: Shankar

In this chapter…
The challenge of nation-building, covered in the last chapter, was
This famous sketch accompanied by the challenge of instituting democratic politics. Thus,
by Shankar appeared
electoral competition among political parties began immediately after
on the cover of his
collection – Don’t Spare Independence. In this chapter, we look at the first decade of electoral
Me, Shankar. The politics in order to understand
original sketch was
drawn in the context of
• the establishment of a system of free and fair elections;
India’s China policy. But • the domination of the Congress party in the years immediately
this cartoon captures
after Independence; and
the dual role of the
Congress during the era • the emergence of opposition parties and their policies.
of one-party dominance.