Major issues in Indian democracy: an analytical study

In modern practice Democracy is a system of government in which the citizen’s use power directly by electing representatives to form a government and now we call it parliamentary system of government. Democracy is referred as ‘rule of the majority’. The word Democracy is originally begins in classical Greece, where political representatives were elected by a jury amongst the male citizens; rich and poor. The English word dates to the 16th century, from the older middle French and Middle Latin equivalents. Democratic government is deference from the forms of government where power is either held by an individual, as in an absolute monarchy, or where power is held by a small number of individuals, as in an oligarchy. Karl Popper defined democracy in contrast to dictatorship or tyranny, thus focusing on opportunities for the people control their leaders and to oust them without the need for a revolution. In this context the study on Indian Democracy is very relevant and this paper is mainly a theoretical study on Issues, concerns and challenges to Indian Democracy.