Adam Auerbach and Tariq Thachil join Milan for a conversation on their book, "Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness." Read more
Adam Auerbach and Tariq Thachil join Milan for a conversation on their book, "Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness." Read more
Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur join Milan to discuss their new book, “Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State” and the lessons it holds for law and order in India. Read more
Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur join Milan to discuss their new book, “Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State” and the lessons it holds for law and order in India. Read more
LSE scholar Taylor C. Sherman joins Milan for a conversation on her new book, "Nehru's India," and to reflect on the impact of the Nehruvian consensus. Read more
LSE scholar Taylor C. Sherman joins Milan for a conversation on her new book, "Nehru's India," and to reflect on the impact of the Nehruvian consensus. Read more
Ramachandra Guha joins Milan to revisit his book, “India After Gandhi,” and discuss the transformation of Indian democracy in the past decade. Read more
Ramachandra Guha joins Milan to revisit his book, “India After Gandhi,” and discuss the transformation of Indian democracy in the past decade. Read more
Ashoka Mody joins Milan for a conversation on his new book, “India is Broken.” The two discuss Mody’s controversial thesis, the inadequacy of GDP as a metric of economic developmen ... Read more
Ashoka Mody joins Milan for a conversation on his new book, “India is Broken.” The two discuss Mody’s controversial thesis, the inadequacy of GDP as a metric of economic development, and the parallels between pre-Partition India and India of the president. Plus, the two talk about Mody’s solutions for addressing India’s twin economic and political challenges. Read more
Over the decades, India has developed a reputation for having a strong society but a weak state. This bureaucratic, lumbering behemoth has especially struggled to deliver basic pub ... Read more
Over the decades, India has developed a reputation for having a strong society but a weak state. This bureaucratic, lumbering behemoth has especially struggled to deliver basic public goods like health, education, water, and sanitation. But a new book by the University of Oxford political scientist Akshay Mangla, Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India, forces us to revise this conventional wisdom. In some parts of India, the state has succeeded in delivering quality primary education for its poorest citizens despite sharing the same institutional framework and often the same demographic characteristics of other, poorly performing regions. To talk more about why and when the state works, Akshay joins Milan on the podcast this week. Akshay and Milan discuss the importance of norms in driving policy implementation, the stark variation in education outcomes in north India, and how authoritarianism and deliberation can coexist. Plus, the two discuss the Modi government’s New Education Policy and the future of primary education in the country. Read more
