What is happening inside Indian democracy?

The processes around democracy in India have detached themselves from the i nfirmities surrounding democracy itself, whether these be of the leaders or the parties, and have acquired an autonomy of their own. The deepening leg itimacy gained by democracy inheres in these processes which provide the sp ace. now contracting, now expanding, for the range of resistance people are capable of; This has been happening in spite of the shape that organised p olitics has acquired and points to the need for a radical revision of theor ies of legitimacy and of how it comes about and where it resides, as elabor ated in academic studies.