Why India has never seen a military dictatorship (qz.com)

>We perhaps don’t realise what a luxury that kind of certainty is.

It indeed is a luxury.

Not a military dictatorship but they did have "The Emergency" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)

They're preoccupied with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_politics_in_India