Srinagar, Aug. 18 -- The roots of democracy can be traced to ancient Greek civilisatio .the democracy in ancient Greek civilisation was restricted and women and plebeians were excluded from right to vote.the modern form of democracy can be attributed to Jan Jaques Rousseau.Rousseau was a French political philosopher who was the intellectual godfather of democracy .Rousseau put forth the idea of General will and popular democracy .though the present form of democracy is mostly representative form of democracy, but the main elements of democracy can be found in Rousseau's idea of General will. Roussea was a naturalist philosopher and he was against the reason that undermines the sentiments .Rousseau argued that science is not saving us, ins...