In Quest of Democracy

This article reviews the state of India’s two major national parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress party), seventy years after independence in…

A review of How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani.

Despite India’s impressive achievements in democracy, economic development, and the rule of law, it remains home to a third of the world’s poor. Although it has successfully averted famine since…