India's Election: How Modi Became Unbeatable (w/ Pratinav Anil)

India's Election: How Modi Became Unbeatable (w/ Pratinav Anil)

Author: Michael Walker April 19, 2024 Duration: 35:11

To mark India's general election, I'll be doing a few episodes on the politics and economics of the world's most populous nation. In this first interview, I speak to the Oxford historian Pratinav Anil about Modi's Hindu Nationalism, and how it came to dominate politics in India.


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