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India’s prime minister is being welcomed warmly in Washington despite human rights issues.
India is currently the world’s most populous nation with one of the largest economies. Will India continue to evolve and become a global power?
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Milan Vaishnav of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the state of democracy in India.
India is set to become the world's most populous country. It might already be, actually. But we don't know, because the Indian government couldn't carry out its detailed 10-year census in 2021 due to the pandemic. What does this mean demographically for the nation, and what does this impact?
More than a million Indians are joining the labor force every month, and that process is going to continue for the next couple of decades.
There was a big narrative propagating by many in the media heading into the 2022 U.S. elections that Indian Americans who had traditionally been inclined to the Democratic Party were going to deflect to the Republican Party.
One, the socioeconomic agenda may stage a comeback. There is certainly a limit to identity politics, when it does not deliver or when it results in more poverty.
In today’s episode, Milan helped us unpack this uneasy balance by exploring why political parties give tickets to criminals, why people continue to vote for them and whether this status quo is likely to change.
The guest today is Christophe Jaffrelot, a CERI-CNRS Senior Research Fellow who teaches in three different schools at Sciences Po in Paris. He is a world-leading scholar of Indian politics, from its foreign policy to its political sociology.
In this episode, the eminent historian Srinath Raghavan reconstructs India’s tremendous contributions to the war, the nationalist dilemma, the roots and impact of the movement, and how the war years Quit India hastened independence but also deepened India’s internal divisions.