The Trouble with India Democracy: a Critical Perspective

With Nitasha Kaul. Nitasha Kaul is a Kashmiri novelist, academic, economist, and artist. Her first book was ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise’ (Routledge, 2007). Aside from publishing fiction and poetry she has also authored numerous articles on several themes including identity, economy, social theory and democracy. She is a Visiting Fellow in Politics and International Relations at Westminster, London. Dr Kaul helps us to examine the protracted and often armed conflicts in North east India and Naxal regions, and offers us a wider critique of the internal contradictions of democracy in India, with reference to political and economic relationships.

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