When I began writing Democracy’s Heartland: Inside the Battle for Power in South Asia, I expected to find familiar stories: mass movements toppling rulers, constitutions drafted amid crisis. Then I turned to Bhutan—the youngest democracy in the region—and realised I was looking at something different.
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