Narendra Modi’s election as Prime Minister (PM) in 2014 presaged the most dramatic alignment of political power equations in India’s northeastern states since Independence. Until 2016,…
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Outside of the local political dynamics of Agartala, Kohima, and Shillong, the results of the latest assembly elections indicate that the processes that drove this wider reframing of the regional political chessboard over the last eight years by Modi’s new BJP have deepened and taken greater root
This article was published in ‘South Asian History and Culture’, Vol. 6, Issue 2, on 23 Feb. 2015 Abstract This article outlines how fresh historical evidence…
It started with a municipal election that nobody thought mattered. It was 1987. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the leading light of the BJP and one day…
It would be mistaken to see the corridor project at the Mahakaleshwar temple in isolation. It is part of a concerted strategy that combines religiosity, cultural…
‘Aa Gujarat Main Banavyu Che [I have made this Gujarat],’ PM Modi had declared in his first campaign rally in Gujarat, at Nana Pondha village in Valsad district. Over the…
In this triangular fight that upends the state’s two-party polity, the BJP is banking on Brand Modi, Congress on grassroots workers and the AAP on a…
While it would be too simplistic to lump all journalists and networks in one simple box, the hectoring, finger-wagging tone of the Anderson interview is broadly…
Home minister Amit Shah’s recent comments in Guwahati that the “real Bharat jodo” was begun in 2014 by PM Modi in the Northeast have refocussed attention…
A few months after Jawaharlal Nehru’s death in 1964, a young political scientist named Rajni Kothari published a seminal article, entitled ‘The Congress “System” in India’. In it,…
