Elections

Sukumar Sen and India's First Election

An act of faith Between October 1951 and February 1952, a country that had been free for barely four years asked roughly 176 million adults to choose their government. Some 85 percent of them could not read or write. Most had never voted for anything, and the world largely doubted it could be done. It was the largest election humanity had ever attempted, spread over a million square miles of mountains, deserts, jungles and…