Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur discuss India’s “precocious democracy” and its unusual development path, examining ...
Though Modi’s government draws concern today, the country’s constitutional history suggests a framework for creating democracy in unlikely settings. Rather than understanding social conditions as a ...
On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the Speaker of the lower house, Om Birla. Each of these members belongs to the parties ...
Amogh Dhar Sharma’s The Backstage of Democracy is not a casual academic book. It is a serious, urgent and deeply revealing account of how Indian elections have been fundamentally transformed, not by ...
In 2013, two young men - they were cousins - killed a man. This was in a rural part of Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India. The cousins were Hindu. The other man was Muslim. What followed was a ...
The brutal second wave of COVID-19 that battered India over the spring pushed into the background another global concern about the country: Just how democratic is the world’s largest democracy? Since ...
Do India’s 1.4 billion people still live in a real democracy? To the average Indian, the question may seem ludicrous. Pick up an Indian newspaper or turn on the television, and it can feel like all ...
On August 5, the Indian government cut all phone lines and internet connections in the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir without warning. WhatsApp threads went quiet overnight and bills went unpaid.
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