Ribhav Pande’s Reviews > Making sense of Indian democracy > Status Update

I don’t normally skip chapters but my God. These are some really dated essays. And after a point, just nosedive into technicalities meant for PolSci students. Hoping the two concluding essays are good.

This is a very academic PolSci textbook, don’t think it counts as light reading. It’s an assortment of old lectures, not particularly adapted for today’s reality. Some prescriptions are helpful and timeless, being fundamental. But some other stuff is too dated, making it slightly annoying to read.

“The story of Indian politics is a story of the attempt by millions of ordinary people to write their own political agenda in an alien script.”