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Aug 2023
40m 28s

Is India Still a Democracy? Rahul Verma ...

JUSTIN KEMPF
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India should be understood as a test case of democracy outside the Western world.

Rahul Verma

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A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.

Rahul Verma is a fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is also Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Ashoka University. Recently, he wrote “The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy” in the recent Journal of Democracy.

Key Highlights

  • Introduction - 0:44
  • India's Democracy Paradox - 2:24
  • Reconciling Illiberalism - 15:54
  • Sources of Indian Democratic Deficits - 20:02
  • Overstating and Understating Indian Democracy - 30:50

Key Links

"The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy" in Journal of Democracy by Rahul Verma

Centre for Policy Research

Follow Rahul Verma on Twitter @rahul_tverma

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Ashutosh Varshney on India. Democracy in Hard Places

Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism

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