Aditya Balasubramanian

Aditya Balasubramanian, Senior Lecturer in History at Australian National University, discusses his new book on Swatantra Party and opposition politics in India. Topics include the influence of BR Shenoy and Austrian economists, the principles and coalition-building efforts of Indian conservatives, conservatism rooted in pluralism, the party's ideologies and coalition, and the views on inflation and authoritarianism.

Experts Rahul Sagar, Aditya Balasubramanian, and Ramachandra Guha discuss the history of India's princely states, the Congress Party's changing stance towards them, the challenges of integrating them into the Indian Union, the management of the states by the Indian Political Department, a dispute over Junagar's succession, and the abolishment of privy purses and its impact on Indian politics.