The Indian election and the future of progressive politics

The Indian election is a vast undertaking fraught with significance. What do the results mean for the future of Indian democracy? What do they tell us about the strength of Hindu nationalism and the shifting social bases of Indian politics? And what is their significance for progressive politics in India and beyond?

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Meet our speakers

Sanjay Kumardirects the authoritative Indian National Election Study based at the Centre of the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. Prof Kumar is one of India's most respected election experts. He is the author of Elections in India and numerous other scholarly publications on Indian electoral politics, and he regularly appears in newspapers and on television.

Christophe Jaffrelot is Avantha Chair and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's India Institute and also the Research Lead for the Global Institutes, King’s College London. He teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po, Paris and is an Overseas Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was Director of Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po, between 2000 and 2008.

Mukulika Banerjee is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at LSE. Interweaving the political into social anthropology to understand human behaviour has been a core component of Mukulika’s long-standing academic engagement with South Asia. Her last monograph Cultivating Democracy: Politics and citizenship in agrarian India (OUP New York) was published in October 2021.

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