India defies the widely held view that poor societies are unlikely to remain democratic. What explains the resilience of India’s democracy in the face of long odds? The answer lies in the ways the country has responded to the varied challenges of the past decade.
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Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. With Lloyd I. Rudolph, their numerous published works on South Asia and India include In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (1987) and Reversing the Gaze: The Amar Singh Diary—A Colonial Subject’s Narrative of Imperial India (2002).
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Lloyd I. Rudolph
Lloyd I. Rudolph is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. With Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, their numerous published works on South Asia and India include In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (1987) and Reversing the Gaze: The Amar Singh Diary—A Colonial Subject’s Narrative of Imperial India (2002).
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