Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize award for Ornit Shani’s ‘How India Became Democratic’ | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize award for Ornit Shani’s ‘How India Became Democratic’ | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Lifestyle Desk |New Delhi |Updated: November 9, 2019 7:33:28 pm

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize award for Ornit Shani’s ‘How India Became Democratic’

The book shines a light on the extraordinary tale of drawing up India’s first electoral rolls, even before the Constitution of India had been drafted.

The book is a scholarly work by Shani, exploring the greatest experiment in democratic human history through the untold story of the creation of the electoral roll and universal adult franchise.

The New India Foundation awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize to Ornit Shani for her book, How India Became Democratic — published by Penguin Random House India — on November 9.