Western scholars like Palmer and Tinker had paid rich tributes to parliamentary democracy in India and remarked: The operation of parliamentary democracy in India would be difficult under the best of circumstances, it is further jeopardized by the lack of a substantial democratic tradition in India. Other factors complicating the successful functioning of parliamentary government in India are fissiparous tendencies of many kinds, caste and class and regional, linguistic and religious divisions, and widespread illiteracy and poverty which effectively remove the great majority of people of India
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