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,…
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With the Karnataka High Court allowing Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at the Idgahground in Hubli, a Hindu organisation, which has been awarded the contract by theHuballi Dharwad…
BJP’s stunning victories in Lok Sabha byelections in Rampur, with over 50% Muslim population, and Azamgarh, with over 40% Muslim-Yadav population, signify deeper shifts. If pollsters…
When Manohar Joshi, Shiv Sena’s first chief minister in Maharashtra, was asked about the possibility of rebelling and leaving his party, he is said to have…
I am gratified that Christophe Jaffrelot and Gilles Verniers have responded to my piece in News 18 on how BJP shifted the caste game in Uttar…
The sweeping win shows the social coalition that powered the party to victories in 2014 and 2019 is not only intact but now stronger and deeper.…
Yogi Adityanath’s return to power in Lucknow has reset the old rules of Indian politics. There are several firsts in the re-election of the Yogi, the…
One of the most revealing sidelights of this election has been watching the intellectual twists and turns of a battery of ‘experts’ — academics and journalists…
