Why Rahul Gandhi’s Disqualification May Be a Turning Point
March 27, 2023 18:41India’s political trajectory is completing the cycle I expected. In Modi’s India (Westland 2023), I studied the transition from national populism to electoral authoritarianism, a phase marked by the capture by the executive of key institutions (including the Election Commission) and the domestication of “mainstream” media with the help of crony capitalists. During this moment that other […]