Summary

The School for Democracy/Loktantrashala has grown out of the experience and learning of people’s socio-economic political mobilisation in rural Rajasthan, during the 1980s and 90s. These movements have enabled ordinary citizens to assert their rights, and use democratic spaces to access constitutional guarantees; including workers’ and women’s rights, the right to information, the right to work. This collective experience has demonstrated that working people often develop a sharp understanding of participatory democracy through collective political action. They however do need systematic time to reflect and inform themselves about the larger constitutional and democratic framework. It became clear that a dedicated space for collective reflection was imperative to facilitate learning. The idea of an institution took shape and the School for Democracy (SFD) was registered with Jean Dreze, Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, Chunni Singh, Lal Singh, Shankar Singh and Sushila,

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