India's Election: A Democracy Without Freedom? (w/ Alpa Shah)
Crash Course With Michael Walker · Michael Walker
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Show Notes
India's elections are the world's largest. But in a context in which Modi's political opponents are subject to arbitrary arrest, can we really call the country a democracy?
LSE Anthropologist Alpa Shah thinks we shouldn't, and in her new book 'The Incarcerations' she explains how the arrest of 16 intellectuals and activists symbolises India's slide into authoritarianism, and even fascism.
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