In western countries, the notion of democracy evolved out of recognizing the individual rights of liberty. This form of democracy is called ‘liberal democracy’. India has a different past – one which has led to the realization of a ‘collective identity’ which is more prominent than the ‘individual identity’ of its citizens. This has resulted from our collective efforts to gain freedom from the Colonial administration which discriminated against Indians. The demand of equal treatment was always there. Indians resisted the British government by a variety of methods – Constitutional methods as used by the ‘Moderates’, Extremism and Violence as used by the ‘Extremists’ and Non-Violent methods of Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience as used by the ‘masses’. The most successful was the non-violent methods as they were mass movements. It was realized back then that the masses are the strongest force of opposition and the voice of the poor is not inferior or weaker than the rich and t