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      • America's Slow Embrace of India
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      • Editor's Introduction
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      • Editor's Introduction
      • Introduction
      • Economic Evaluations and the Incumbent Vote
      • Do Issues Matter in Indian Elections?
      • Understanding Voting Patterns by Class in the 2019 Indian Election
      • The Backwards Turn Right in the Hindi Belt
      • The Youth Vote in Lok Sabha Elections 2019
      • Does Muslim Vote Matter?
      • The Prospects for a Congress Party Revival
      • India’s Democracy: The Point of No Return
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      • Introduction
      • Demographic Changes in India: Implications for Policy
      • Remunicipalization of a Public-Private Partnership: Lessons in Health Policy from Chhattisgarh, India
      • Why India Should Not Abandon Export-Led Growth in a Post-Pandemic World
      • The Origins of India: A Comment
      • Manipur: A Broken Land
      • Let the Good Times Roll? The Modi Government’s Economic Performance, 2014-2022
      • A Trojan Horse for Unrestrained Power? Due Process and Article 22 of the Constitution of India
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      • Introduction
      • Experts in Estrangement: India’s Public Health Agencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic
      • Executive Control over Institutional Checks: The Supreme Court and the Election Commission of India
      • Identifying 1.4 Billion Indians Biometrically? Corporate World, State, and Civil Society
      • Coalition Politics and Modi Sarkar 3.0: Indications from Recent History and Theory
      • Politics of the Poor and Social Protection in Emerging Asia: A Comparative Analysis of China, India, and Turkey
      • Electoral Bonds—A Fraud on India’s Democracy
      • State of the Indian Judiciary
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      • Introduction
      • Guest Editors’ Introduction: What Does the 2024 National Election Reveal About India?
      • What Does Voter Turnout Tell Us About Election Outcomes?
      • Assessing the Integrity of India’s 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
      • Caste, Social Justice, and the Politics of Inclusion in the 2024 Indian General Election
      • Crossing Red Lines? The BJP and Democratic Legitimacy in the 2024 Election
      • Chronicles of a Campaign Foretold: Electioneering in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
      • Caste in Candidate Nomination in the 2024 Election
      • Class in Indian Politics
      • Social Media and Party Organization in India
      • Reimagining Muslim Agency and Identity in Post-Independence India
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      • Introduction
      • What Checks and Balances? Explaining the Supreme Court’s Complacency in Modi’s India
      • The Recolonization of Hindus and the Ethical-Historical Loneliness of Muslims: Challenges in Contemporary Assam
      • Demographic Changes in Tamil Nadu: Implications for Human Development Outcomes and Policy
      • Policing in India: Legacy, Resistance, and Reform
      • Fifty Years of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency: Lessons for Indian Democracy
      • The Historical Roots of Conflict and State-failure in Manipur
      • Book Review - Stuck Between a Forest Ranger and a Plumber: Tensions in Bureaucratic Reform
      • Book Review - The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India
      • Book Review - Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas.
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    • Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2018 >
      • Editor's Introduction
      • Tone Shift: India's Dominant Foreign Policy Aims Under Modi
      • Three and a Half Years of Modi: An Economic Assessment
      • Modi-fying Indian Federalism?
      • Narendra Modi and India's Populist Democracy
      • India's Nationalism in Historical Perspective
      • The Second Dominant Party System and India's COIN Strategy
    • Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2018 >
      • Editor's Introduction
      • India’s Ways of (Non-) War
      • Foreign Assistance in India’s Foreign Policy
      • Parameters of Successful Wastewater Reuse in Urban India
      • India’s Search for Economic Prosperity and Global Power
    • Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2019Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2019 >
      • Editor's Introduction
      • The Political Project of Postcolonial Neoliberal Nationalism
      • "Go Write on the Walls That You are the Rulers of the Nation"
      • The Indo-Bangladesh Relationship
      • America's Slow Embrace of India
    • Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2019 >
      • Editor's Introduction
      • India, South Africa and the Cape Town Agreement
      • The Reproduction of Indian Neoliberal Reforms
      • Ideas and Policy Paradigms
      • Explaining Institutional Change in India’s Welfare Regime
    • Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2020 >
      • Editor's Introduction
      • Introduction
      • Economic Evaluations and the Incumbent Vote
      • Do Issues Matter in Indian Elections?
      • Understanding Voting Patterns by Class in the 2019 Indian Election
      • The Backwards Turn Right in the Hindi Belt
      • The Youth Vote in Lok Sabha Elections 2019
      • Does Muslim Vote Matter?
      • The Prospects for a Congress Party Revival
      • India’s Democracy: The Point of No Return
    • Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2024 >
      • Introduction
      • Demographic Changes in India: Implications for Policy
      • Remunicipalization of a Public-Private Partnership: Lessons in Health Policy from Chhattisgarh, India
      • Why India Should Not Abandon Export-Led Growth in a Post-Pandemic World
      • The Origins of India: A Comment
      • Manipur: A Broken Land
      • Let the Good Times Roll? The Modi Government’s Economic Performance, 2014-2022
      • A Trojan Horse for Unrestrained Power? Due Process and Article 22 of the Constitution of India
    • Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 2024 >
      • Introduction
      • Experts in Estrangement: India’s Public Health Agencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic
      • Executive Control over Institutional Checks: The Supreme Court and the Election Commission of India
      • Identifying 1.4 Billion Indians Biometrically? Corporate World, State, and Civil Society
      • Coalition Politics and Modi Sarkar 3.0: Indications from Recent History and Theory
      • Politics of the Poor and Social Protection in Emerging Asia: A Comparative Analysis of China, India, and Turkey
      • Electoral Bonds—A Fraud on India’s Democracy
      • State of the Indian Judiciary
    • Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2025 >
      • Introduction
      • Guest Editors’ Introduction: What Does the 2024 National Election Reveal About India?
      • What Does Voter Turnout Tell Us About Election Outcomes?
      • Assessing the Integrity of India’s 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
      • Caste, Social Justice, and the Politics of Inclusion in the 2024 Indian General Election
      • Crossing Red Lines? The BJP and Democratic Legitimacy in the 2024 Election
      • Chronicles of a Campaign Foretold: Electioneering in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
      • Caste in Candidate Nomination in the 2024 Election
      • Class in Indian Politics
      • Social Media and Party Organization in India
      • Reimagining Muslim Agency and Identity in Post-Independence India
    • Volume 5, Number 2, Autumn 2025​ >
      • Introduction
      • What Checks and Balances? Explaining the Supreme Court’s Complacency in Modi’s India
      • The Recolonization of Hindus and the Ethical-Historical Loneliness of Muslims: Challenges in Contemporary Assam
      • Demographic Changes in Tamil Nadu: Implications for Human Development Outcomes and Policy
      • Policing in India: Legacy, Resistance, and Reform
      • Fifty Years of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency: Lessons for Indian Democracy
      • The Historical Roots of Conflict and State-failure in Manipur
      • Book Review - Stuck Between a Forest Ranger and a Plumber: Tensions in Bureaucratic Reform
      • Book Review - The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India
      • Book Review - Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas.
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Editor’s Introduction
Rahul Mukherji

RESEARCH
Experts in Estrangement: India’s Public Health Agencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic  
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Dinsha Mistree, Rehana Mohammed, and Naman Shah

Executive Control over Institutional Checks: The Supreme Court and the Election Commission of India  
Zoya Hasan

Identifying 1.4 Billion Indians Biometrically? Corporate World, State, and Civil Society 
Nicolas Belorgey and Christophe Jaffrelot

Coalition Politics and Modi Sarkar 3.0: Indication from Recent History and Theory
Rob Jenkins

Politics of the Poor and Social Protection in Emerging Asia: A Comparative Analysis of China, India, and Turkey
Indrajit Roy, Burak Gürel, and Erdem Yörük

PERSPECTIVES
Electoral Bonds—A Fraud on India’s Democracy
Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri
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State of the Indian Judiciary
Prashant Bhushan
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