THE ELECTOR CONUNDRUM
Sri Sadhana Patrika's, A voter's dispassion Monish, A, S.K. Elections are barely any new concept to India, be it the Buddhist jatakas which tell about Ganarajyas and their elections, or the Rigvedic Sabha and samiti's, where election occurs and a leader is chosen, or of the numerous tribal societies where its leaders were chosen, coming in advance of the time, the Uthiramerur epigraph of Parantaka I of the Chola house proclaims of a self-governance and its voting models in elaborate, voting is never a new thing to India. But the real deal began somewhere in the 1860s when the legislative councils through indirect elections got "nominated" to the governor's legislative councils, corporations, municipalities and district boards. this reached its zenith with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1918 and the Government of India Act of 1919, which effectively introduced dyarchy, where Indians were elected to provincial legislative councils and imperial legislative