India: The Largest Functioning Democracy in the World

India is the nation where we have quite something to be proud of and to make us flaunt over the world in which one and best of them is the rich and broad legacy of democracy, comparison to others. India has been regarded as the largest functioning democracy in the world and constructed itself to be felt strong in the global economic arena of the world. During one visit to India two-three years ago, British prime minister referred India to be the beacon of democracy to the world. The well developed and fully evolved democracy that we are witnessing here is flourishing throughout the long span of time. It has went through much ups and downs, has shined and diminished but going through these all things somehow it is managing to survive in India till now. These various dilemmas fixed a truly democratic future in India after colonization. The future of the democracy depends totally on the past inherited traditions of the society and the challenges we are facing in the present contemporary India. While discussing all these we have haunted always by a question that how has India managed to remain democratic despite all problematic signs we found in the society? Why not this democratic regime is not affected by the various misfortunes of narrow-minded reaction of different regional and ethnic fundamentalism, freedom fighters movements and the strongholds of illiteracy, poverty, backwardness and the root of all these causes i.e. corruption. If the absence of all these factors is considered as a requirement to the formation of successful democracy, than India would surely provide a miserable and depressing picture of democracy in the world. But the important fact here is that our country is regarded as the country having largest democracy in the world and which make us to think that we have something more reliable and strong thing with us more than these facts which is serving our eyes.
It is impossible to define Indian democracy as liberal, participatory or deliberative