In India, partyless democracy was first advocated by

M.N. Roy (Manabendra Nath Roy), a radical political theorist and philosopher, was the first to advocate for a 'partyless democracy' in India during the 1940s. He proposed that political parties were divisive and that democracy should function through directly elected representatives without party affiliations. While Jayaprakash Narayan later championed similar ideas in the 1970s, Roy was the original advocate of this concept in India.