The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy | Feat. Rahul Bhatia

Welcome to Episode 18 of the #BookSalon series!

After a long wait, we are very pleased to announce our researcher Aabha Muralidharan in conversation with Rahul Bhatia. The Book Salon series features regular, interactive interviews with leading scholars, journalists and writers covering a range of critical topics, and continues our mission of providing high-quality events that are free and open to the public -- an important service now more than ever.

The Polis Project is excited to welcome 2022/23 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow, journalist and writer Rahul Bhatia to our Virtual Book Salon. He joins us to discuss his new book, The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy (US version)/The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy (India version). The book offers a contemporary, thorough, and investigative account of India’s transformation to a religious autocracy. It demonstrates the events which have led to the overpowering of the nationalistic mindset -- one which despises democracy and human rights – in India, “all in an effort to bind the multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural” identities in the country to a single one.

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