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title: "Why Did India Choose a Parliamentary System Instead of a Presidential One?"  
description: "Why Did India Choose a Parliamentary System Instead of a Presidential One?"  
author: "Sander Willems"  
published: 2026-10-17  
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tags: ["indian history", "Indian Polity", "UPSC"]  
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# Why Did India Choose a Parliamentary System Instead of a Presidential One?

For a UPSC polity question, I’m trying to understand the reasoning behind India adopting a parliamentary system after independence rather than choosing a directly elected presidential executive. Was this mainly about familiarity with British institutions, or were there deeper concerns about how power should be shared in a diverse country?

How did the framers weigh stable government against **executive accountability**, and what features of the **parliamentary system in India** were meant to address those concerns?


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