Many things are clear without comparisons. You could learn quite a lot about democracy just by studying present-day India without any sort of comparisons. For example, you could establish that India is a democracy and that its democratisation has gone through several phases without comparing it with another country. Similarly, you could learn a lot about democratic innovations and breakdowns by comparing India now with India forty or fifty years ago. So why make everything even more complicated by comparing India with other countries? What can be gained from cross-national comparisons?
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