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The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy ★★★★☆

The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy ★★★★☆

Read in 2025: The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia 📚

A sobering and horrifying look at the changes in Indian politics and its secular past. There were always some communally bigoted people, but now, they are in power, emboldening many more, and giving cover to the casual bigots.

Imagine if instead of 55% of white people being GOP/conservative, it were 85-90%, and if whites still were 80% of the population instead of now-63%, well, that’s India for you. Replace whites with Hindus, and you get a sense of how bad it can get.

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