The Media in India and the Indian Nuclear Weapons Policy 1998–2018: An Abdication of Responsibility by C. Rammanohar Reddy

“…It has not changed its approach in the decades since 1998; the changes in the media since then and the growth of an aggressive nationalism in Indian politics in the intervening decades have put a value on nuclear weapons which the media has uncritically endorsed. …”
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Indian Muslims and the Anti-CAA Protests: From Marginalization Towards Exclusion by Ali Khan Mahmudabad

“…Since the victory of the BJP in 2014 there has been much speculation about the fate of Muslims and their place in Indian politics. This paper seeks to argue that the recent rise of the BJP has caused the center of politics to move further to the right which in turn has precipitated a change in the politics of the opposition parties as well wherein Muslims have become political “untouchables.” …”
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Darshan – The Changed Gaze by Britta Ohm, Rita Panesar, Andrea Horakh

“… Thirty years after shooting their student documentary on cinema and media change in India, one of the three (female, Western) filmmakers contemplates the gendered and cultural conditions of creating the film and how they resonate with the trajectory that Indian politics has taken over these past few decades. …”
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Online disinformation in the run-up to the Indian 2019 election by Das, A, Schroeder, R

“…The findings are presented against the background of previous work on the role of digital media in Indian politics. The essay uses 25 in-depth interviews among ordinary Indians to probe their level of awareness about so-called ‘fake news’. …”

Explaining Post-Pandemic Indian Cities: some Reflections on New Delhi by Shaikh Mujibur Rehman

“…It has also reignited debate regarding migrations, the labour market, and Hindu-Muslim relations, though the latter has worsened due to the rise of the Hindu Right in Indian politics with the consolidation of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). …”
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India’s Relations with Muslim Countries during the Implementation of CAA/NRC by Hadza Min Fadhli Robby

“…This article would like to investigate whether the Hindu nationalist outlook in contemporary Indian politics and the standing of the current government towards Indian Muslims will eventually affect India’s relations with the Muslim World, especially in the case of India-Indonesia and India-Malaysia Relations. …”
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Movement allies: the politics of civil rights activism in India (1960s-1980s) by Pandey, A

“…<p>This thesis is a study of the practices of civil rights groups in Indian politics as a distinct form of collective action. …”

Le concept de minorité(s) linguistique(s) en Inde : le cadre juridico-constitutionnel de l’accommodement by Papia Sengupta

“…Language played an integral role in the birth and development of the Indian state and is extremely important for understanding modern Indian politics. Language was a key component of the Indian national freedom struggle and this was reflected in independent India being reorganized on linguistic lines. …”
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Populism in India Under Modi Regime and its Implications for Pakistan by Shireen Mushtaq, Faryal Mazari, Sabira Ahsan

“…This has resulted in right-wing populism being synonymous with Indian politics under the Modi regime. The populist Modi regime used anti-Pakistan rhetoric as an instrument to attract voters and attain majoritarian rule in India. …”
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The Politics of Health Policy Agenda Setting in India: The Case of the PMJAY Program by Anuska Kalita, Kevin Croke

“…PMJAY represents the increased prominence of health programs in Indian politics, although primarily on the political and media agenda, rather than on the budgetary and legislative agenda during this period. …”
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The Political Transformation in India by Atique Rahman

“…The political changes in indian politics by and large is greatly influenced by the present days ruling party at the centre. …”
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Crisis, credibility, and corruption: how ideas and institutions shape government behaviour in India by Baloch, B

“…</p> <p>To my knowledge this is the first data-driven study of Indian politics that precisely demonstrates how ideology acts as a constraint on government behavior in a credibility crisis. …”

Where ants dig up gold: ‘India’, selfhood and the myths manufacturing a nation by Sarkar, B

“…The formation of India, like other countries, has been complicit in this process – never more so than now, when legends of heroes from epic yore shape the ideology of divisive Indian politics. A young ‘nation’ born in 1947, ‘India’ is even today uncomfortable with the idea of nationhood, and many of the problems it faces – regional spats with the central government for example – arise, in one sense, from this intrinsic discomfort, from a fundamental inability to square a modern political canvas with its heterogeneous, varied, segmentary past. …”

The backstage of democracy: exploring the professionalisation of politics in India by Sharma, AD

“…Through an extended case study of Prashant Kishor, one of India’s most famous political consultants, and the firms mentored by him, I demonstrate that political consultants in India adamantly disavow being portrayed as political mercenaries; instead, they fashion themselves as ethical citizens who are interested in making Indian politics more transparent, accountable, and non-corrupt through their profession.…”

The Indian National Congress and political mobilisation in the United Provinces, 1926-1934 by Pandey, G

“…<p>Recent studies of the development of Indian politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have contested the notion of a giant clash between imperialism and nationalism in the sub-continent. …”

Discourse on SCO in India by N. Das Kundu

“…Changes of attitudes towards SCO in the Indian political establishment and public opinion are analyzed.…”
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On the Politics of Non-Transparent Electoral Funding in India - The Supreme Court’s Electoral Bonds Verdict by Anmol Jain

“…The EBS introduced a novel method of making ‘anonymous’ donations to Indian political parties, both by individuals and a body of individuals. …”
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Status społeczno-polityczny kobiety w Indiach na przełomie XX i XXI wieku - konflikt tradycji i prawa by Anna Staniszewska

“…Article focuses on the determinants that have shaped the contemporary Indian political system and the description of the contemporary Indian society and discuss the major social problems of India. …”
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Against Extinction by Karin Zitzewitz

“…It examines the implications of the work’s juxtaposition of various modes of temporality within and beyond an Indian political landscape dominated by a Hindu nationalist, authoritarian regime. …”
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Theory as Elite: The Phenomenological Dilemma of Dalit Critique by Sudarsan Padmanabhan

“…In recent debates on the theoretical framework of social sciences, Indian political scientist Gopal Guru mounted a critique that Indian social science is not representative and egalitarian. …”
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