To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism

ISBN-13: 9780198848608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 336 str.

Debasish Roy Chowdhury; John Keane

Opis

With a unique narrative combining moving life stories and scholarly insight, this book offers a radical re-appraisal of Indian politics. The book demonstrates why Indian democracy is of global importance and why its pathologies are a cause for alarm: as much for India as for the future of democracy the world over.

Recenzje

The authors plunge into India's postindependence public-policy inadequacies with unsparing accounts laden with telling anecdotes and a host of pertinent statistics. Sumit Ganguly, Journal of Democracy

O autorze

Debasish Roy Chowdhury has written extensively on Indian politics and society and geopolitics. A journalist based in Hong Kong, he has lived and worked in Calcutta, Sao Paulo, Bangkok, and Beijing. He is a Jefferson Fellow and a recipient of multiple prizes, including the Human Rights Press Award, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award and the Hong Kong News Award. John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin). He is renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, and is the author of a number of distinguished books including The Life and Death of Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2009) and The New Despotism (Harvard University Press, 2020).