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Soledad Artiz Prillaman, “Strength in numbers: how women's groups close India's political gender gap,” American Journal of Political Science 67, no. 2 (2023): 390-410. Gabi Kruks-Wisner, Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Rural Welfare in India (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018). “What the Women's Reservation Bill Means for Women (with Carole Spary),” Grand Tamasha, October 25, 2...

Varun Agarwal et al., “GST Revenue Performance: Gainers and Losers after Seven Years,” Economic and Political Weekly 59, no. 37 (September 14, 2024): 35-49. Varun Agarwal et al., “GST revenues: The fate of the compensation cess amid Centre-state row,” Business Standard, July 3, 2024. Varun Agarwal et al., “GST's revenue performance: Centre's sacrifice for cooperative federalism,” Business Standard...

Poonam Muttreja and Martand Kaushik, “Dispelling population myths triggered by a working paper,” Hindu, May 30, 2024. Sanghamitra Singh, “We're worried about population explosion. So let's talk brass tacks,” Hindustan Times, July 27, 2023. Zubeda Hamid, “Education remains the most effective contraceptive: experts,” Hindu, July 5, 2024. Poonam Muttreja, “Centering women and marginalized communities...

  Suhas Palshikar, Sandeep Shastri, and Sanjay Kumar, “CSDS-Lokniti 2024 pre-poll survey: There is no clear and close challenger to the BJP this time. ‘Ifs and buts’ apply,” Hindu, April 13, 2024. Sandeep Shastri, Sanjay Kumar, and Suhas Palshikar, “CSDS-Lokniti post-poll survey: A return to an era of genuine coalitions,” Hindu, June 6, 2024. Lokniti Team, “Post-poll survey: Methodology,” Hindu, J...

Episode notes: Sadanand Dhume, “India’s Election Humbles Narendra Modi,” Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2024. Sadanand Dhume, “India Could Become Venezuela on the Ganges,” Wall Street Journal, May 22. “India's Modi Looks to Retain Power (with Tanvi Madan),” Bloomberg Daybreak Asia (podcast), June 5, 2024. “Two years into the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A conversation with Assistant...

Milan Vaishnav, “Looking back before looking ahead in 2024,” Hindustan Times, June 5, 2024. Sunetra Choudhury, “As Cong nears 100 seats, Kharge makes overtures to NDA parties, works the phone,” Hindustan Times, June 4, 2024. Rahul Verma, “Elections that reminded netas, people are the boss,” Times of India, June 5, 2024. “India Elects 2024,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

1. “Christophe Jaffrelot on India’s First Dictatorship,” Grand Tamasha, April 14, 2021. 2. Sudha Ramachandran, “Christophe Jaffrelot on What Makes Brand Modi Successful,” The Diplomat, April 8, 2024. 3. Christophe Jaffrelot, “A Deeper State,” The Caravan, February 13, 2024. 4. Christophe Jaffrelot, “The enduring personality cult of Narendra Modi,” February 13, 2024.

1. Karthik Muralidharan, Niehaus, Paul, and Sandip Sukhtankar, "General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India," Econometrica91, no. 4 (2023): 1261-1295. 2. Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, and Sandip Sukhtankar, "Integrating Biometric Authentication in India’s Welfare Programs: Lessons from a Decade of Reforms," Center for Effective Glob...

Episode notes: 1. Rahul Bhattacharya, “Rahul Gandhi is on the march. But where is he heading?” 1843 Magazine, May 2, 2024. 2. Samanth Subramanian, “multi-storied,” Substack newsletter. 3. Bhagi Siva and Samanth Subramanian, “What it takes to live near an elephant herd,” Washington Post, January 21, 2024. 4. Samanth Subramanian, “When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood,” New Yorker, October 10, 202...

Maitreesh Ghatak and Rishabh Kumar, “Poverty in India Over the Last Decade: Data, Debates, and Doubts,” The India Forum, April 10, 2024. Maitreesh Ghatak, “The rise of the affluent is the real India growth story,” Hindustan Times, February 29, 2024. Maitreesh Ghatak, “The simmering debate over poverty rate,” Mint, May 4, 2023. Maitreesh Ghatak, Ramya Raghavan, and Linchuan Xu, “Trends in Economic...

1. Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence, “The Indian Giant Has Arrived,” Project Syndicate, March 22, 2024. 2. Pranjul Bhandari, “Beyond the budget: what happened when no one was really looking?” Mint, January 30, 2024. 3. Pranjul Bhandari, “India’s fiscal future: Lots done, more to do,” Mint, November 22, 2023. 4. Pranjul Bhandari, “India’s growth prospects are on the up. What changed?” Indian Exp...

1. “What’s Happening to India’s Rohingya Refugees? (with Priyali Sur and Daniel Sullivan),” Grand Tamasha, May 24, 2023. 2. Mohsin Alam Bhat and Aashish Yadav, “CAA will not help persecuted Hindus, Sikhs from neighbouring countries,” Indian Express, March 19, 2024. 3. “The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019,” PRS Legislative Research. 4. Madhav Khosla and Milan Vaishnav, “The Three Faces of the In...

Devesh Kapur, Chandra Bhan Prasad, Lant Pritchett, and D. Shyam Babu, “Rethinking Inequality: Dalits in Uttar Pradesh in the Market Reform Era,” Economic and Political Weekly 45, no. 35 (August 28-September 3, 2010): 39-49. Devesh Kapur, Chandra Bhan Prasad, and D. Shyam Babu, Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs (New Delhi: Vintage, 2014). D. Shyam Babu, “From empowerment to disenfra...

Milan Vaishnav, “On electoral bonds, a short-lived celebration,” Hindustan Times, February 17, 2024. “Crime and Politics with Milan Vaishnav,” The DAKSH Podcast, September 2022. Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav, eds., Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018). Milan Vaishnav, When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (New Haven: Yale Univer...

Constantino Xavier and Riya Sinha, “How India Budgets to Become a Leading Power,” Centre for Social and Economic Progress, February 8, 2023. Constantino Xavier, “India: Looking to Help Frame a New Global Balance,” in Regional Security Outlook 2023 (Canberra: Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, 2022). Constantino Xavier and Amitendu Palit, eds., Connectivity and Cooperation in the...

Karan Thapar, “Debunking propaganda myths, restoring truths,” Hindustan Times, January 27, 2024. Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi, and Supriya Sharma, “Bringing Journalistic Scrutiny to Hindutva Conspiracy Theories,” The Wire, January 17, 2024.

“What the Personal Data Protection Act Means for India (with Rahul Matthan),” Grand Tamasha, Septemner 27, 2023. “Book Discussion: The Third Way: India’s Revolutionary Approach to Data Governance,” Carnegie India Global Technology Summit 2023, December 7, 2023. Rahul Matthan, “Tech policy in India has had a year packed with action,” Mint, December 27, 2023.

“India’s Hidden Treatise on Statecraft (with Rahul Sagar),” Grand Tamasha, November 2, 2022. “The Hidden History of Conservative Economics in Post-1947 India (with Aditya Balasubramanian,” Grand Tamasha, October 11, 2023. “Ramachandra Guha Revisits India After Gandhi,” Grand Tamasha, April 19, 2023.

1. Sanjay Ruparelia, “The opportunities and challenges of courting India,” in Maxwell A. Cameron, David Gillies and David Carment, eds.,Democracy and Foreign Policy in an Era of Uncertainty: Canada Among Nations 2022(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023): 241-268. 2. “Reframing Canada’s Global Engagement: Ten Strategic Choices for Decision-Makers,” Global Canada, September 2020. 3. Sanjay Ruparelia, “In India...

1. Crystal A. Ennis and Nicolas Blarel, eds.,The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex(Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2022).   2. Nicolas Blarel,The Evolution of India's Israel Policy: Continuity, Change, and Compromise since 1922(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).   3. Sumit Ganguly and Nicolas Blarel, “Modi’s Comments on Israel-Gaza War Signal Shift,”Foreign Policy, Octobe...

1. Carole Spary, “Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election,”Contemporary South Asia28, no. 2 (2020): 223-241.   2. Carole Spary, “Missed opportunities: time is running out for the Indian government to pass legislative gender quotas bill,” King’s India Institute, November 1, 2018.   3. Shireen M. Rai and Carole Spary, “Populism, parliament, and...

1.Ajay Mathur, “International finance must take a lead in mobilising solar investments,”Business Standard, September 7, 2023 2. Ajay Mathur, “Here's how solar can help triple renewable energy by 2030,” World Economic Forum, August 14, 2023. 3. “What COP26 Means for India—and the World,” (with Navroz Dubash),Grand Tamasha, November 17, 2021. 4. “How India Can Get to Net Zero Emissions,” (with Jayan...

Prashant Jha, “On Modi’s foreign policy, here is what the Opposition gets it wrong,” Hindustan Times, September 14, 2023.   Ashok Malik, “The continuity constituency and Modi's re-election bid,” Economic Times, August 29, 2023.   [VIDEO] “G20 Summit 2023 India (with Ashok Malik),” CNN-News18, September 12, 2023.   “Ro Khanna on the U.S.-India Partnership,” Hindustan Times, September 13, 2023.

Ro Khanna, “The New Industrial Age,”Foreign Affairs, January/February 2023.   “The Next Chapter in U.S.-India Defense Ties(with Lindsey Ford),”Grand Tamasha, September 5, 2023.   Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, Jonathan Kay, and Milan Vaishnav, “Social Realities of Indian Americans: Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 9, 2021...

Programming Note: This is the very last episode of Season Nine of Grand Tamasha. As is our usual, we are going to take July and August off to recharge our batteries. We will be back in September with our tenth season of podcasts, and we’re excited about the conversations we have planned for the Fall.   Some of our listeners may recall way back in February 2020—the month before the world came to a...