India: Liberalism vs. Nationalism

Issue Date July 1992
Volume 3
Issue 3
Page Numbers 147-53
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A review of Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability, by Atul Kohli and The Politics of India Since Independence, by Paul Brass.

About the Author

Ashutosh Varshney is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and director of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University. His essay “Modi Consolidates Power: Electoral Vibrancy, Mounting Liberal Deficits” appeared in the October 2019 issue of the Journal of Democracy.

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