Subject(s): Politics and government -- Political Development -- Institutional strategy -- Modernization -- Political Institutionalization and national Integration -- Political economy -- Party system -- Theoretical consideration -- Political development, Indian model -- Historical antecedents -- Hindu social order, Muslim impact, British impact, Political response, Charisma and reconstruction, communal problem and national integration -- Approach to modernization -- Institutional strategy -- Decision making on the constitution, Patterns of state politics, deventralization, Bureaucracy and political development, Institutionalization and legitimacy -- Party system and coalition-making -- Competitive dominance, Social composition of parties, role of protest -- Social infrastructure -- Prevailing prescription, Political dominance of caste, Political socialization, Modernization of tradition -- Political institutionalization and national integration -- Diversity -- Political economy of development -- Board strategy of transformation, self sustained growth, disequilibrium and development, Equity -- Coping with the international environment -- Growth of a policy, Challenges to national integrity, International environment, Economic independence -- Indian model