The article is an analysis of the experience of Indian democracy dating back to attempts to render it more democratic. For this effort, it divides the question in three thematic levels: the armed struggle (the presence of Maoist guerrillas in Central India), the primacy of civic sphere of politics and the dominance political sphere over the legal one. All of them will reveal themselves incapables to radicalize the Indian democracy. The main question highlighted in this article lies in the fact that the three attempts end up proposing, in different ways, the negation of politics and, ultimately, democracy itself, which was harshly conquered in India by its independence revolution of 1947. At the same time, draws attention to two fundamental aspects. On one hand, the widespread distrust of citizens in the state's ability to equate and forward solutions for the serious economic, political, social, ethical problems affecting most of the population of India, has real basis. On the other hand, only the resumption of democratic politics restores the missing links of the national revolution.
Radical Democracy; Democratic Politics; Armed Struggle; Agrarian Question