Useful ? Let’s help each other by sharing! Answer: Many of the countries that gained freedom from colonialism during the 1940s and early 1950s experienced non-democratic rule. But India, despite the colossal problems like partition, integration of princely states, communal violence, poverty, cultural diversity and so on; decided to take the more difficult path, i.e to the idea of democracy through free and fair elections. In this regard it can be said that India’s first general election was, among other things, an act of faith for a nascent country like India. Preparing for the first general election was a mammoth exercise. No election on this scale had ever been conducted in the whole world which is evident from some of the below facts: The holding of election also required delimitation or drawings of boundaries of constituencies, which was again considering the size of the country was a difficult task. The size of the electorate was around 176 million of age ...
