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The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Autocracy and Democracy presents Michael Kugelman and “India’s Democratic Backslide: Manifestations, Drivers, and Implications.”

India is the world’s most populous country, and its fastest growing major economy. It has also long been known as the world’s largest democracy. But in recent years, the status of Indian democracy has come into question. Crackdowns have intensified against the political opposition and other critics, including journalists and scholars. New laws and policies—as well as rising communal rhetoric and hate speech—have heightened anxieties about threats to India’s large Muslim minority. And the Hindu nationalist policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government have raised concerns about India’s secular and pluralistic traditions. In this lecture, Kugelman will describe the nature of India’s backslide on democracy, what might be driving it, and how it may impact relations with its key global partners—including the US—and its place in the world more broadly. He’ll also offer some thoughts on India’s future democratic trajectory and what might shape it.

Michael Kugelman, the Director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, is a leading specialist on Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan and their relations with the United States. The editor or co-editor of 11 books, he has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and other publications, covering topics ranging from U.S. policy in Afghanistan to terrorism to water, energy, and food security in the region.

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Contact Organizer

DeFoor, Margaret
mdefoor@middlebury.edu
(802) 443-5324