Changing Indian Democracy? Party system, Castes and Citizens

Although democratic changes in Eastern Europe and Latin America were responsible for the complete transformation of their political parties, the situation in India seems to be just the reverse. We observe that the evolution of political parties in North India, and particularly the development of parties whose electoral success depends on the support of a small section of the society of a state of the Indian Union, actually produced a change in the functioning of democracy in the late 1980s and early 1990s and a change in attitude and relation between citizens and political parties.