Bihar Board Class 9 Democratic Politics TextBook

Chapter-1

Gradual Development of Democracy

INTRODUCTION

The present book discusses the theoretical and practical sides of
democracy. In the first chapter we will show how during the last hundred
years democracy has developed and expanded in more and more
countries of the world. You will see that today also in many countries
democracy after coming to an end , is being re-established.

In this chapter, many examples of the end of democracy and its
re-establishment in many countries have been given. Through these
examples you will be able to understand how much struggle people had
to make to establish democracy. After reading this chapter you will also
recognize some of salient characteristics of democracy. We are also
presenting examples related to establishment and re-establishment of
democracy in the neighbouring countries of India. At the end of the
chapter we have tried to see whether democracy is possible at the world
level or not.

Before understanding the nature of the expansion of democracy
in the modern world we will try to know how much struggle people had to
make for the establishment of democratic set-up in their country. With
the passage of time how this set-up of democracy was re-established.
Let us see Chile, one of the main countries of South America, and the
incidents of 1980 in Poland :-