Assessing India: Democracy, Governance, and Foreign Policy
During the 1960s, many predicted India’s collapse as a nation. Today, it is one of the world’s rising economic powers and a significant political actor in South Asia and beyond. How did this transformation take place and how has India’s rise influenced debates around development? To what extent has growth affected governance and the problem of inequality?
At a recent discussion, economist Sanjay Reddy and writer Siddhartha Deb discussed the state of Indian democracy, its footprint in the world, and what these phenomena mean for open society concerns.
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