The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism

by Srirupa Roy

Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of actually existing democracy are intense and strident. In recent years, the trope of victimized people suffering at the hands of a predatory elite and political dysfunction has reaped rewards. The populist language of redemptive outsiders pledging to combat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503637980
• ISBN13: 9781503637986
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"