Author: Milan Vaishnav | Journal of Democracy

Milan Vaishnav is senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.

July 2024, Volume 35, Issue 3

The Rise of India’s Second Republic

Milan Vaishnav

While he did not achieve the sweeping victory many predicted, Narendra Modi led his ruling coalition to a third consecutive victory. In so doing, he is laying the foundation for a new political order in which India is simultaneously more democratic and more illiberal.

January 2021, Volume 32, Issue 1

The Three Faces of the Indian State

Madhav Khosla
Milan Vaishnav

India’s Constitution has long seemed stable, but the rise of an ethnic, absolute, and opaque state is changing the constitutional order in momentous and disturbing ways.