Democracy in India is a rare jewel in a large swathe of non-democratic states in Asia and around the world. That it exists at all, as a democracy, is due to the immense efforts of the British, The Indian National Congress, Mahatma Gandhi and his peers, Nehru and his peers. Indian citizens should be grateful to all of the above groups of people who have given them democracy as it is today. Without them, it would not come to pass.