To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism
With a unique narrative combining moving life stories and scholarly insight, a journalist and a political theorist have teamed up to offer a radical re-appraisal of Indian politics and society. They discuss India’s passage to despotism not just in terms of shrinking civil rights and captured and broken governing institutions, but also from the perspective of welfare provisions and economic and social well-being.
Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane reject the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi’s populism. Their book details the much deeper historical roots of the social and political dysfunctions that have now reduced India to a phantom democracy.