Unemployment in India Is a Result of the Last Ten Years

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How lasting damage do you think he will have done to india self understanding as apluralistic nation? Is this going to be remembered as the moment in which hindenationalism had the ascendant, but that it won't have properly transformed the self understanding of india? Or do you think that what you called earlier, ta kind of exception of india in a region of mageratarian, religiously inflected states, is eventually going to come to a definitive end.

Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian, writer, and one of the foremost authorities on modern India. The author of India After Gandhi and Gandhi Before India, he is also a leading critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Guha is a member of the Persuasion Board of Advisors.

In this week’s conversation, Ramachandra Guha and Yascha Mounk discuss the history of Indian pluralism, the rise of Hindu nationalism, and the prospects for preserving liberal democracy in India.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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