Aristotle feared the political equality among people that democracy entailed and he feared giving everyone an equal say over public affairs. Yet it was precisely this level of political equality and opportunity for the common people that led Mahatma Gandhi to advocate democracy for post-colonial India almost 2,300 years later and India today is the world’s largest democracy. Gandhi said that : ‘My notion of democracy is that under it that weakest shall have the same opportunities as the srtongest’. Here the political equality of the masses is re-imagined as a positive and empowering attribute rather than as a potential route to chaws. For Gandhi, democracy is a system of rule that is more beneficial to the majority of citizens compared to alternative non-democratic systems that are more beneficial to a small of elites.