INDRAJIT ROY

Electoral coalitions have remained a feature of Indian politics since 1989. The present government, led by Narendra Modi, is a coalition...

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading for a landslide victory in the just-concluded elections. Under the leadership of...

As Indians gear up for elections in April, approximately 60 million men and women, crisscrossing the country as migrant workers, will be...

Dr Indrajit Roy, expert in the politics of the Global South, and Zahid Ullah, a PhD student studying violent extremism in Pakistan, both...

With the arrest of Lalu Yadav, the ruling BJP appears to have scored a major political victory. A key locus of opposition politics stands...

Donald Trump’s election as the 45th US president illustrates the global ascendance of the political right. Comparisons with Indian prime...

When Narendra Modi was elected as head of India’s BJP government in May 2014, he was expected to usher in a period of stability and...

Elections are a regular occurrence in India. In 2014, the country went to the polls to elect its national government. Last year, in 2015,...

Even as the exit polls were being broadcast, with predictions that the Left Front would be decimated (the predictions placed the Left as...

I curate a Blog Series: Sociology of Citizenship.The series is being run jointly with Politics in Spires, the blog of the Department of...