Sustaining Burma’s Hopes for Freedom

A review of Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability, by Atul Kohli and The Politics of India Since Independence, by Paul Brass.

After a brief era of political opening, the authoritarian old guard has ridden a dubiously conducted presidential election back into power.

To a degree that is still not widely appreciated, the BJP has replaced Congress as India’s party of welfarism. The carefully crafted political persona of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as…