Mainstream WeeklyThe most transformative aspect of the Indian constitution is introduction of Adult suffrage. By one stroke, the right to vote was granted to all Indians who were above prescribed age regardless of cast, religion, region, and gender and irrespective of their educations and properties.
This was indeed revolutionary, and has no parallel in the history of democratic evolution. In developed countries, the right to vote began with criteria of property, and sizeable section of population was disenfranchised for want of not possessing threshold limit of properties. Women were denied right to vote. After long struggle of suffragette movement, women were granted voting rights as late as in 1920