Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Author of The Burden of Democracy)

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President, Centre Policy Research, New Delhi, one of India's top think tanks. Before he started engaging with contemporary affairs, he taught political theory at Harvard, and briefly at JNU.

He has written extensively on intellectual history, political theory, law, India's social transformation and world affairs. He writes regularly for the Indian Express. He is the recipient of the Infosys Prize, the Adisheshiah Prize and the Amartya Sen Prize.

He believes the purpose of writing is to provoke thinking not to provide instruction.

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	The Burden of Democracy 4.11 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Companion to Politics in India: Student Edition by Niraja Gopal Jayal (Editor), Pratap Bhanu Mehta 4.25 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design (Oxford India Collection by Devesh Kapur (editor), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nonalignment 2.0 by Sunil Khilnani, Rajiv Kumar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta 3.41 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rethinking Public Institutions in India by Devesh Kapur (Editor), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Editor), Milan Vaishnav (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution (Oxford Handbooks) by Oxford University Press, Madhav Khosla (Editor), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia by Mark V. Tushnet (Editor), Madhav Khosla (Editor), Osama Siddique (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India's Higher Education by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order by Pratap Bhanu Mehta (editor), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Editor), Bruce Jones (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burden of Tolerance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“India has worked not because of 鈥榰nity in diversity鈥�, the presence of a locus of identity beneath differences, as the state is fond of telling us. We have flourished rather because we are 鈥榙iverse in our unities鈥�, each able to imagine the connection with others in his/ her own way.”
― Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Burden Of Democracy

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“Is Indian democracy simply going to be an excuse for an unbridled and open competition, in which those who can raise their banner the highest, declaim in the loudest voices, and mobilize the maximum amount of muscle power, can make their writ run large? Will India's democracy sustain itself, if at all, not by even a dim sense of the values democracy is meant to honour, but by the sheer contingencies of power in Indian society?

While Indian democracy has been successful, we cannot take it for granted that the shifting balance of power may not produce forms of state action which jeopardize and put at risk every defensible ideal to which this republic was committed.”
― Pratap Bhanu Mehta, The Burden of Democracy

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