Troubling State of India's Democracy

Šumit Ganguly is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and holds the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.Dinsha Mistree is Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution.Larry Diamond is William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

• IntroductionSumit Ganguly, Dinsha Mistree, and Larry DiamondPart 1: PoliticsChapter 1: Electoral Trends and the State of the Party SystemEswaran SridharanChapter 2: The State of the Two Major Parties: BJP and CongressEswaran SridharanChapter 3: Regional Political Parties in IndiaAshutosh KumarChapter 4: Redefined Indian-ness and the Decline of India’s DemocracyMaya TudorChapter 5: Trends in Public Support for DemocracyVinay SitapatiPart 2: The StateChapter 6: Federalism and Center-State RelationsKanta MuraliChapter 7: The State of the Supreme CourtRonojoy SenChapter 8: The BureaucracyYamini AiyarChapter 9: The State of the PoliceArvind VermaChapter 10: Investigative AgenciesAjay MehraChapter 11: Modi’s Mixed Record as an Economic ReformerJohn Echeverri-Gent, Aseema Sinha, and Andrew WyattPart 3: SocietyChapter 12: NGOs and Civil SocietyRahul MukherjiChapter 13: Ethnic and Religious TensionsThomas Blom HansenChapter 14: Hindutva, Caste, and State VigilantismChristophe JaffrelotChapter 15: Indian News MediaTaberez NeyaziChapter 16: Social Media in Elections: Modi and AfterJoyojeet PalList of Contributors

“The Troubling State of India's Democracy, edited by Šumit Ganguly, Dinsha Mistree, and Larry Diamond, is a timely and frank analysis of the decline of Indian democracy over the last decade. While the overall picture the essays in this book paint is deeply worrisome, the essays are reader friendly and engaging. The book also offers hope that growing pockets of resistance could, some day, reverse the decline. The book should be read by anyone interested in India, including in its place in the geopolitics of the coming decades.”