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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Two Indias: Federalism, regionalization, and the 2024 general elections [PDF]

Srpska Politička Misao
This paper explores the profound social, cultural, and political divisions between Northern and Southern India, with a particular focus on their impact on the outcomes of the 2024 general elections.
Đogatović Veljko M.
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Identifying Themes of Right-Wing Extremism in Hindutva Discourse on Twitter

Social Media + Society, 2023
Hindutva, the core political ideology of India’s current ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), seeks to transform constitutionally secular India into a Hindu Rashtra (“Hindu nation”).
Piyush Ghasiya, Georg Ahnert, Kazutoshi Sasahara   +2 more
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New Directions in Indian Political Economy: Reflections on Development, Welfare, and Governance

The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, 2022
In this introductory paper of the Special Issue, we explore how India’s political economy is moving in a new direction by focusing on three key political economy issues: development, welfare, and governance.
CHANWAHN KIM, RAJIV KUMAR
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Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper shows how India's wind electricity regime does not simply decarbonize electricity; it reorganizes power through a distinctive wind masculinity—a caste‐coded, infrastructural mode of rule that keeps money, machines, and people moving.
David Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Is BJP Conservative?

Politeja, 2019
This article will consider whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (the BJP), the party currently ruling India, may be considered conservative. The author will use Swapan Dasgupta’s 2015 lecture on conservatism as a starting point for further deliberations ...
Krzysztof Iwanek
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Islamophobia and Allegations Against Corona Virus Spread By Muslim Minority In India

AJIS: Academic Journal of Islamic Studies, 2021
This article discusses Islamophobia and accusations by the Hindu majority against Muslim minorities in India against the coronavirus. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the parties that often voices accusations against Muslim minorities in India ...
Muhammad Saekul Mujahidin
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Green Developmentalism? The Political Economy of Hydropower in India in the 21st Century

Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 649-679, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines the political economy of hydropower in India since its global reconfiguration as ‘green energy’ in the early 2000s. While an opportune convergence of interests among key global, national and subnational stakeholders contributed to the greening of hydropower in India, this reframing did not produce the expected ...
Vasudha Chhotray, Harsh Vasani
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THE INCREASE OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN INDIA AND HINDUTVA

RUDN Journal of World History, 2015
India have enacted laws to restrict religious conversions low castes convert from Hinduism, the laws reinforce existing social categories by making it harder for people to change their identities.
O Leonidovna Solodkova
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Indian Democracy Under Threat: The BJP’s Online Authoritarian Populism as a Means to Advance an Ethnoreligious Nationalist Agenda in the 2019 General Election

International Journal of Communication, 2022
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Narendra Modi has been a pioneer of technologically enabled authoritarian populism, elected by a landslide in 2014 and reelected in 2019.
Gillian Bolsover
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