Here are different opinions about what made India a democracy. How much importance would you give to each of these factors?
Freedom Struggle challenged the colonial exploitation and denial of different freedoms to Indians. Free India could not be anything but democratic.

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Freedom struggle was important in spreading the idea of nationalism in India and inculcating the practice of making decisions by consensus.

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Here are different opinions about what made India a democracy. How much importance would you give to each of these factors?Freedom Struggle challenged the colonial exploitation and denial of different freedoms to Indians. Free India could not be anything but democratic.

Freedom struggle was important in spreading the idea of nationalism in India and inculcating the practice of making decisions by consensus.

Here are different opinions about what made India a democracy. How much importance would you give to each of these factors?
Freedom Struggle challenged the colonial exploitation and denial of different freedoms to Indians. Free India could not be anything but democratic.