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The Indian prime minister’s visit to Kyiv highlights complex behind-the-scenes manoeuvring with important geopolitical implications.
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Modi’s appointed experts have helped craft a narrative that combines India’s technological advancement with Hindu nationalism.
Hindu men arrive to cast their votes at a polling station in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India, on May 20 2024.
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Modi’s BJP slipped to a humbling defeat in its electoral stronghold in India’s north.
The rise of populist leaders and movements is sometimes the partial result of people’s economic insecurities and worries about the future.
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Economic insecurity is one factor that drives populism, a former politician from Hungary writes.
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Charging one of India’s best-known public intellectuals sends a message to all Modi critics.
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Claiming Hinduism represents India’s “true” identity, nationalists have targeted religious minorities and government critics, labelling them as threats to India.
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India remains a powerful economic force.
Volunteers of the Hindu nationalist paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh take part in a march in Chennai, India, on April 26 2023.
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Modi has resorted to overtly Islamophobic language as he looks to secure a third term in office.
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There are a few factors that may explain why support for Modi’s party has waned.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is greeted by supporters as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi on June 4, 2024.
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The ruling BJP failed to see that those who had not benefited from the country’s rapid economic growth were deeply unhappy.
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Narendra Modi and his BJP have some introspection to do after poorer election results than they had expected.
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was formed in 1925 to unite Hindus. Today, its far-right nationalist ideology has gone mainstream thanks to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
A man stands next to a poster of the movie ‘Article 370’ displayed at a theater in Guwahati, India. The movie is about the status of Jammu and Kashmir, a highly contested region in Northern India, and the film has been criticized for distorting history.
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On today’s Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast, political scientist Sikata Banerjee and cinema studies scholar Rakesh Sengupta explain how cinema and social media in India may be helping to sway voters.
In March, protests reignited against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act when the government of Narendra Modi decided to enact the controversial law after years of stalling.
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Listen to Indrajit Roy talk about hope and politics in India on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is popular but divisive.
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The Indian prime minister made reference to communities that have “too many children” in a veiled reference to Muslims.
One of Narendra Modi’s grand plans as Indian prime minister has been to build a giant Hindu temple at Ayodhya on the site of a demolished mosque.
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Narendra Modi looks set to win a third term in power. One of his strategies for success is to exploit the country’s religious differences.
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New research examines the organisational reasons why Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has been so successful at winning elections since 2014.
Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, during the presentation of the party manifesto in New Delhi, India, on April 14 2024.
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Modi has aimed to improve the lives of ordinary Indians, but some are still finding jobs hard to come by.
A Muslim protester shouts at security personnel on the streets of Shaheen Bagh, a neighborhood in Delhi, in 2020.
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Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
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The government’s alleged targeting of opposition figures, as well as a new system allowing anonymous donations to political parties, is believed to have given the BJP a huge edge.