Abstract
At the dawn of independence, all the countries of South and Southeast Asia, except North Vietnam, opted for a democratic form of government. Some adopted the system substantially, some superficially. In the course of time most of them abandoned or suspended the system. In India, where democracy found firmer roots during the first seventeen years of independence and brought about the world’s largest free country, the system was eventually suspended for about twenty months, from June 1975 until March 1977. Only Malaysia, Sri Lanka and, in a restricted sense, Singapore, continued to practise the system.
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Pandey, B.N. (1980). The Crisis of Democracy. In: South and South-east Asia, 1945–1979: Problems and Policies. The Making of the 20th Century. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16381-6_2
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