The Indian election will be one of the largest the world has ever seen, with almost 1 billion people eligible to vote. It’s often said that India is the world’s biggest democracy. But what if that isn’t quite true? What if Narendra Modi, India’s likely future prime minister, has undermined the very building blocks of what we consider a democratic state to be?
To discuss the caste system, political assassinations and state-sanctioned pogroms, Aaron is joined by anthropologist Alpa Shah, author of ‘The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India’.
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00:00 Intro
01:58 Who is Narendra Modi and What is the RSS?
14:16 What is Hindutva?
19:21 Indian Islamaphobia
22:44 Who are the BK-16?
36:37 Censorship in Modi’s India
43:55 The Caste System Explained
58:18 Modi and the Oligarchs
1:04:06 Is India a Democracy?
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