Bilal Baloch and I have guest-edited a special issue of India Review on the consequences of India’s 2019 general election. The issue is out now and you can find an ungated version of our introduction here. Here’s a snippet:

This special issue of India Review addresses the implications of the 2019 general election for India’s democratic polity. The timing of these essays,therefore, is worth noting. Since the authors put pen to paper in the immediate aftermath of the elections, important shifts have taken place in India’s electoral and policy landscape. This is the inevitable challenge of real-time analysis. It is for this reason that we brought together a diverse set of academics and research-oriented practitioners who help place the election in comparative and historical context for students and scholars of India and South Asia. The result is a unique, balanced, and illuminating collection of articles that stand apart from the plethora of post-election analyses. Though the broad remit of this collection is to assess how the 2019election results will impact four key domestic policy and political arenas–the party system, minority rights, economy, and federalism–the underlying philosophical concern pertains to the trajectory of power within India.

I’ll update this post with links to ungated versions of the remaining essays in the coming days:

Adam Ziegfeld, “A New Dominant Party in India? Putting the 2019 BJP Victory into Comparative and Historical Perspective”

Adnan Farooqui, “Political representation of a minority: Muslim representation in contemporary India”

Yamini Aiyar and Louise Tillin, “‘One nation,’ BJP, and the future of Indian federalism”

Rohit Chandra and Michael Walton, “Big potential, big risks? Indian capitalism, economic reform and populism in the BJP era”