> > I will be > interested if anyone can point out if gerrymandering has happened in > India. >
Yes, gerrymandering does take place in India. One of the recent cases (that was reported in DNA newspaper, if I remember correctly), was the case of election of a municipal councillor in Juhu who won the council elections in 2007 because of the change in the constituency which enabled him to gain votes from his ''votebank''. Gerrymandering is also a very complex process because it takes place differently and is claimed to be the outcome of string pulling by high level officials in the political party/ies. I am trying to look into gerrymandering for my own Ph.D. thesis work. -- Zainab Bawa Ph.D. Student and Independent Researcher Between Places ... http://zainab.freecrow.org
