To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism

Chowdhury, Debasish Roy; Keane, John

ISBN 10: 0198848609 / ISBN 13: 9780198848608

Published by Oxford University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198848609
• ISBN 13: 9780198848608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, in recent years there has been growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter.

About the Author

Debasish Roy Chowdhury has written extensively on Indian politics and society and geopolitics. A journalist based in Hong Kong, he has lived and worked in Calcutta, Sao Paulo, Bangkok, and Beijing. He is a Jefferson Fellow and a recipient of multiple prizes, including the Human Rights Press Award, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award and the Hong Kong News Award.

John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin). He is renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, and is the author of a number of distinguished books including The Life and Death of Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2009) and The New Despotism (Harvard University Press, 2020).