India’s Improbable Success

India’s Constitution has long seemed stable, but the rise of an ethnic, absolute, and opaque state is changing the constitutional order in momentous and disturbing ways.

To understand how India’s democracy works, and how it manages demands from social groups for greater power, resources, autonomy, and respect, it is essential to understand Indian federalism. That, in…

Must every state be a nation and every nation a state? Or should we look instead to the example of countries such as India, where one state holds together a…