Asia The indistinct cartelisation of regional politics in India November 1, 2019 0 Image Credit: Public.Resource.Org/ Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0 Written by Chirayu Thakkar After thirty years of coalition governments in India, an unexpected landslide win by…
Election Commissioner Indian elections 2019: women candidates to watch out for May 22, 2019 1 *This article is republished from The Conversation The original date of publication: 21 May 2019 Written by Carole Spary Image Credit: Narendra Modi Official/ Flickr, licensed…
Election Commissioner Andhra Pradesh: Common identities, caste and the elections May 21, 2019 0 Written by Vignesh Karthik KR. Image Credit: Jim Cortez/Flickr, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The results of India’s general election will be released on 23 May 2019. On…
Demography Harbingers of democracy May 9, 2019 0 Written by Shubhra Seth and Safa Ameera Rahim. An investment in knowledge pays high dividends for young citizens and it is an important tool for…
Democracy Politicising national security, securitising poverty April 23, 2019 1 Written by Ajay Darshan Behera. Increasingly, electoral campaigning in India has become bereft of debate on the policies and programmes of the political parties in…
Democracy The regional aims to become the new national: The Trinamool in West Bengal April 18, 2019 0 Written by Maidul Islam. West Bengal (WB) is the third largest state in India, with 42 seats in the Lok Sabha after Uttar Pradesh (UP)…
Beef ban Caste calculations and curry leaves: Dalits and the 2019 elections April 17, 2019 1 Written by Hugo Gorringe and Karthikeyan Damodaran. Dalit votes could be decisive in the 2019 general elections in India. One of the pillars of the…
Congress The 2019 Indian General Elections: The consolidation of BJP dominance? April 16, 2019 0 Written by Wilfried Swenden. The race has started, as on 11 April 2019 approximately 900 million Indian voters were called to cast their vote in…
Development Modi and the watchmen: India’s national security election April 10, 2019 0 Written by Ian Hall. Barely a couple of months ago, it looked as though Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies were going…
Election Commissioner The electoral politics of caste in Tamil Nadu: Why TTV Dhinakaran matters more for the BJP than the DMK April 9, 2019 0 Written by Vignesh Karthik KR. With the two major Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu (TN) forming broad alliances in advance of the Indian general elections,…