Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan. By Maya Chadda. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 247p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper

Elliot L. Tepper

American Political Science Review, 2001, vol. 95, issue 2, 493-494

Abstract: Democracy is in vogue it seems. Everywhere in the world, the forces opposed to democracy seem to be in retreat, and the number of states calling themselves democracies is increas- ing. There are exceptions, of course: parts of Africa, tortured Burma, all over the Middle East, some aging Communist oligarchies, a few proud holdouts in sultanates and mountain monarchies. But they are increasingly anachronisms in the end-of-history world. Or are they? The literature is replete with controversy on the definition, durability, inevitably, and universality of democracy. Into this controversy comes a new book that takes direct aim at the literature of the past decades and provides a badly needed comparative analysis of some of the states in South Asia. Maya Chadda's goals are clear and ambitious: to bring the neglected experience of South Asia to the attention of a wider audience, in the context of the most central debates about the nature of democracy.

Date: 2001
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