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…
Asia A shifting paradigm? Politics in India against the backdrop of the parliamentary election May 3, 2019 0 Written by Subrata Mitra. ABSTRACT: The acrimonious electoral campaign of 2019 will be remembered for the spectre of muscular Hinduism locked in battle with multicultural…
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…
Democracy How far can momentum take Rahul Gandhi’s Congress? January 16, 2019 0 Written by Andrew Whitehead. The Indian National Congress is entering an election year with that most valuable of political commodities: momentum. The party’s performance in…
Elections Why Karnataka Voted the Way It Did June 18, 2018 0 Written by Vishesh Guru. The peculiar post-election scenario, with the attendant outcry about stolen mandates and (im)moral victories, perhaps drowned out the basic question: why…
Elections Karnataka: A state election with national implications May 11, 2018 0 Written by M. Sudhir Selvaraj. On May 12th, the state of Karnataka will go to the polls for an election that has significant implications for the…
