President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said India's democracy is a unique example for the modern world and many countries of the world are learning from our election system and management.

In May 2014, in what looked like a scene from a movie, a van pulled in front of G.N. Saibaba’s car. The police, in plain clothes, dragged him out, then assaulted, blindfolded, and kidnapped the ...

Also in March, V-Dem, a Swedish institute that studies democracy, said India had ceased to be an electoral democracy in 2019. It instead became an “electoral autocracy,” a status it shares ...

But both India’s dream of a glorious international status and the U.S. goal to gain a major partner in its struggle against China and authoritarianism depend on India remaining a democracy.

Shortly before he was attacked, Rushdie joined with dozens of Indian literary artists to lament the rise of Hindu nationalism and the fragile state of the country’s democracy. Salman Rushdie at ...

India’s political system has shifted from limited democracy to party democracy and finally to plebiscitary democracy, a trend that reached its epitome with Modi.

How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (2019), as co-author with Pratinav Anil, India’s First Dictatorship. The Emergency, 1975-77 (2020), and as sole author Modi’s India. Hindu Nationalism and the ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media in New Delhi on Jan. 31. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) Not long ago, a 12th-grade political science textbook in India informed students about the ...