Indrajit Roy

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Beyond the BJP/Congress dichotomy: Reflecting on the possibilities of a Third Front

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

India’s TsuNaMo: Modi’s Triumph Signals Departure of Secularism and Diversity

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

Ensure voting rights for migrant labour

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

Conflict over Kashmir: A web of complicity

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

Lalu Yadav Might Be Halted, But Laluwad Will Not Be

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

Trump and Modi: birds of the same feather, but with different world views

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

India’s slow-brewing political storm is steadily gathering strength

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...

Disenfranchised citizens, unfree labour: The social and political exclusion of India’s internal circ

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

What’s left of the Left?

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

Blog Series on Sociology of Citizenship

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