... political strength for Indian democracy. Email: < vyadav@psu.edu > © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 pandemic BJP Modi China trade democracy In 2022, India experienced three key trends: the decline of COVID-19 threats, the rebounding of the economy...

... 92 seats to 97 seats as of the end of 2020. This is still well short of the half-way mark (123 seats), which impedes the government’s ability to pass ordinary legislation and constitutional amendments. Within the BJP, the senior leadership—Modi and his faithful lieutenant and the minister of home...

...Eswaran Sridharan The year 2020 was one of multiple challenges for India and for the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government. The year began with mass protests against the Citizen (Amendment) Act, which minority Muslims saw as threatening their citizen rights and was widely felt...

...Eswaran Sridharan The major development in India in 2019 was the national election which returned Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party to power with a larger majority and which, along with post-election ideological assertiveness, poses the question of whether India’s party system is a new one...

...Shalendra D. Sharma An assessment of Modi’s economic policies (“Modinomics”) shows that the gap between intentions and outcomes remains wide because Modinomics has been too cautious and contradictory to overcome the unusual structural challenges facing India’s economy. Moreover, the contradictions...

...Christophe Jaffrelot While India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost elections in Delhi and Bihar, and its government failed to implement any significant reform in 2015, the economy was slowly recovering and Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted an active foreign policy. © 2016 by The Regents...

... will guide the Modi government. © 2015 by the Regents of the University of California 2015 Pakistan-based terror groups India Afghan policy Indian investment Modi RAJENDRA M. ABHYANKAR Afghanistan after the 2014 U.S. Drawdown The Transformation of India s Policy ABSTRACT The U.S. decision...