Author: Vineeta Yadav | Journal of Democracy

Vineeta Yadav is associate professor of political science at Penn State University. Her most recent book is Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties (2021), winner of the 2022 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.

July 2023, Volume 34, Issue 3

Why India’s Political Elites Are to Blame

Vineeta Yadav

India has a long history of elites acting undemocratically. But the current government’s attacks on the media, arrests of opposition, and discriminatory laws are deeper and more alarming.