India After the Dynasty

Shortcomings in governance and electoral administration may be accelerating India’s slide to autocracy. Were these flaws embedded in Indian democracy from the start?

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

Read the full essay here. While the Constitution of India has not been amended after the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in 2014, BJP-ruled states have…