The Indian political discourse not only includes provisions and institutional functioning of Indian Constitution: but also comprises the analysis of communal pressures and stratified divisions on the basis of caste, class, gender etc. that have virtually changed the grammar of Indian politics. In the era of globalization, formal and informal changes in the India's policy regime were accompanied by the process of transformation of the nature of Indian State along with the significant political decentralization in federal structure. party system. electoral system, and the structure of coalition governments. The analytical study of any political system-past and present in a competitive perspective has been considered as the logical field of political understanding. In the present volume three areas have been identified for such analysis. focusing on the comparison of Indian version with Canadian federalism, British party system and Chinese experience of human rights: This brief volume presents a fairly comprehensive view of the evolving Indian Political system at a critical period of its development. Study of any political system remains incomplete if historical roots thereof arc overlooked. Apart from the colonial legacy. India indeed has a historical heritage. perhaps ancient than one may presume. While focusing on the interface of social forces, political institutions and processes in an attempt to understand the Indian politics: the purpose of this study is to explore historical perspective; structural arrangements and emerging principal contradictions within liberal democracy: and also to encourage researches to realize the positives as well as the negatives of the indigenous system and also to search and suggest alternative paths for the resolution of existing and emerging crisis. About The Author Dr. Ruchi Tyagi is Reader in Political Science. Kalandi College. University of Delhi. She has been teaching Post-Graduate and Under-Graduate Courses on Political Thought, Indian Government and Politics and Contemporary India. She has been selected by the ICCR as Chair, Indian Studies. Osh State University, Kyrghysthan in 2006. She was the recipient of the Minor Research Grant of the University Grants Commission in 1990-91 and Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Enrichment Fellowship in 1996-97. She was Visiting-Fellow of Gandhi Bhawan. University of Delhi in 1996-98 and Resource Person for Short Term Post-Graduation Certificate-Course' on "Understanding Gandhi", sponsored by Gandhi Bhawan, University of Delhi (2005-06). She was also selected as Assistant Producer by B.B.C London for 4.5 years in 1986. She has authored (i) Secularism in Multi-Religious Indian Society and (ii) Indian Government and Politics and has co-authored two books on Bhartiya Rajnitik Chintan and Indian Political Thought. She has also contributed almost 50 Articles and Research Papers in various books, journals and inter-national/ national seminars and has made eleven contributions in Encyclopedia of Hinduism.