The importance of the surname in Indian politics

Over 150 members of Lok Sabha have followed their family members into politics, according to data put up on The India Site, a website associated with British historian Patrick French’s book India: A Portrait. But, according to the website which has put up data on family backgrounds of members of the lower House of Parliament, over 250 other members have “no significant family background” in politics. The site doesn’t say how these MPs got into politics.

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