TMC Topic Guide
India
Created: April 2020
Last Updated: December 23, 2022
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Table of contents
2020 India-China border crisis
India and coronavirus
Governance and development
India-Pakistan relations and Kashmir
Indian elections
India and the world
Indian Americans
2020 India-China border crisis
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- Aidan Milliff and Paul Staniland, “What Indians think about China, and the border clashes,” December 23 2022.
- Arzan Tarapore, “India and China are taking new risks along their border. It will be hard to restore peace,” September 16, 2020.
- Christopher Clary, “China and India were both looking to back down from a border crisis. Then soldiers died,” June 16, 2020.
- M. Taylor Fravel, “Why are China and India skirmishing at their border? Here’s 4 things to know,” June 2, 2020.
India and coronavirus
See also the TMC topic guide on Coronavirus.
- Prerna Singh, “India has become an ‘electoral autocracy.’ Its covid-19 catastrophe is no surprise,” July 5, 2021.
- Nisha Bellinger, “What’s behind India’s dramatic pandemic surge? Here’s one factor: Too little competition in Parliament,” June 2, 2021.
- Suparna Chaudhry and Shubha Kamala Prasad, “India’s 1.6 million new coronavirus cases in the past week are breaking its health system,” April 21, 2021.
- Suparna Chaudhry and Shubha Kamala Prasad, “India is hitting a record number of new covid-19 cases. That’s not its only problem,” September 9, 2020.
- Adam Auerbach, “Millions of people in India’s slums can’t keep each other at a distance during pandemic lockdown,” April 13, 2020.
- Suparna Chaudhry and Shubha Kamala Prasad, “How India plans to put 1.3 billion people on a coronavirus lockdown,” March 30, 2020.
Governance and development
- Malini Ranganathan, “Urban flooding has everything to do with real estate corruption,” September 9, 2022.
- Prerna Singh, “India has become an ‘electoral autocracy.’ Its covid-19 catastrophe is no surprise,” July 5, 2021.
- Rachel Brulé and Nikhar Gaikwad, “In India’s West Bengal state, backing women’s economic interests helped one party score a historic win,” June 16, 2021.
- Sonal S. Pandya and Sheetal Sekhri, “In March, India executed 4 men for gang rape. What improves women’s status and reduces rape?” April 30, 2020.
- Suparna Chaudhry, “In India, Hindus, Muslims and police are fighting in the streets. Here’s what’s behind the violence,” February 25, 2020.
- Prerna Singh, “In India, protesters are singing the national anthem and waving the flag. Here’s why that matters,” January 20, 2020.
- Shubha Kamala Prasad, “India is cracking down on university protests. Here’s what you need to know,” January 10, 2020.
- Aditi Malik, Shivaji Mukherjee, and Ajay Verghese, “In India, thousands are protesting the new citizenship law. Here are 4 things to know,” December 31, 2019.
- Suparna Chaudhry, “India’s new law may leave millions of Muslims without citizenship,” December 13, 2019.
- Ajay Verghese, “Is India becoming a ‘Hindu state’?” June 5, 2019.
- Nives Dolšak and Aseem Prakash, “Why did India’s devastating Cyclone Fani kill only 40 people — not 10,000? Thank democracy and technology,” May 17, 2019.
- YuJung Julia Lee, “It’s World Toilet Day. Why do so many people lack adequate sanitation facilities?” November 19, 2018.
- Aseem Prakash and Joshua Eastin, “Why is India ‘missing’ 63 million women — even though development is roaring?” February 18, 2018.
- Aseem Prakash, Liam McGrath, Nives Dolšak, and Thomas Bernauer, “Delhi is blanketed with toxic smog. This is why,” November 11, 2017.
- Christopher Clary, “Today is India’s 70th birthday. How it answers these 3 questions will define its future — and the world’s,” August 15, 2017.
- M. Steven Fish and Neil A. Abrams, “State subsidies take from the poor to give to the rich,” July 16, 2015.
- Erik Voeten, “The recriminalization of homosexuality in India and the potential for broader backlash,” December 11, 2013.
India-Pakistan relations and Kashmir
- Sameer Lalwani, “India revoked Kashmir’s autonomy a year ago. What has happened since then?” August 5, 2020.
- Samir Ahmad and Yelena Biberman, “Young Kashmiris think India and Pakistan can resolve their differences over Kashmir,” March 4, 2020.
- Suparna Chaudhry, “India’s prime minister will visit the U.S. next week. What will he say about human rights in Kashmir?” September 21, 2019.
- Aditi Malik and Shivaji Mukherjee, “Why Kashmir may see increased violence after the revocation of Article 370,” August 14, 2019.
- Asfandyar Mir, “Here’s how India’s decision to cut Kashmir’s autonomy will affect South Asia — and the world,” August 9, 2019.
- Ahsan I. Butt, “India just pulled Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy. Here’s why that is a big deal for this contested region,” August 7, 2019.
- Sameer Lalwani and Emily Tallo, “Did India shoot down a Pakistani F-16 in February? This just became a big deal,” April 17, 2019.
- Asfandyar Mir, “Why India and Pakistan are fighting again — and the risks that remain,” March 7, 2019.
- Caitlin Talmadge, “Are nuclear weapons keeping the India-Pakistan crisis from escalating — or making it more dangerous?” March 5, 2019.
- Christopher Clary, “After terrorist attack in Kashmir, will India seek vengeance or de-escalation?” February 25, 2019.
- Asfandyar Mir, “The Kashmir attack could prompt a crisis in South Asia. Here’s why,” February 15, 2019.
- Christopher Clary, “Trump singled out India to do more in Afghanistan. That could easily backfire,” August 24, 2017.
- Paul Staniland, “India and Pakistan clashed again in Kashmir. Here’s what you need to know,” September 30, 2016.
- Paul Staniland, “Narenda Modi is confronting his first challenge. Here’s what he’s likely to do,” May 23, 2014.
Indian elections
- Tariq Thachil, “India’s election results were more than a ‘Modi wave’,” May 31, 2019.
- David Schultz and Manisha Madhava, “How India holds an election with 900 million voters and 8,000 candidates,” May 8, 2019.
- Tariq Thachil, “In India, the world’s largest election has started. Keep an eye on these 5 things,” April 12, 2019.
- Adam Ziegfeld, “India’s ruling party just lost an important election. So what?” November 10, 2015.
- Jolie Wood, “Caste and ‘the Muslim Vote’ in the Battle for India’s Varanasi,” June 4, 2014.
- Adnan Naseemullah and Gilles Verniers, “Is India following in Pakistan’s footsteps?” May 29, 2014.
- Prakash Kashwan, “India’s elections and the politics of development,” May 20, 2014.
- Adam Ziegfeld, “India’s election isn’t as historic as people think,” May 16, 2014.
- Maha Rafi Atal, “Inequality, belief and elections in India,” April 17, 2014.
India and the world
- Christopher Clary, “The U.S. and India face these 5 challenges. Can they depend on each other?” August 2, 2021.
- Trevor Cloen and Irfan Nooruddin, “The U.S.-India trade deal fell through. What happens now?” March 5, 2020.
- Sameer Lalwani, “Trump’s India trip didn’t produce a trade deal. Here’s what did result,” February 27, 2020.
- Christopher Clary, “Trump and Modi will meet in India this week. Here’s what to expect,” February 23, 2020.
- Debak Das, “An Indian nuclear power plant suffered a cyberattack. Here’s what you need to know,” November 4, 2019.
- Yogesh Joshi, “Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi met again this month. Here are 4 things to know about Sino-Indian relations,” October 22, 2019.
- Christopher Clary, “Trump picked a fight with India. Here’s what’s going on,” July 2, 2019.
- Jonathan Fulton, “Why Saudi Arabia is turning to Asia,” March 6, 2019.
- Vasant Dhar, “Who controls your data? India may pass a law ensuring that you do,” September 25, 2018.
- Ida Bastiaens, Nita Rudra, and Stacey Williams, “India just retaliated with new tariffs on U.S. goods. Here’s why developing economies like tariffs,” January 28, 2018.
- Sidra Hamidi, “What’s really at stake in the Iran deal? Identity politics,” July 16, 2015.
- Sonal S. Pandya, “Why foreign investment still polarizes India,” September 30, 2014.
- J.P. Singh, “India’s multi-faceted WTO refusal,” August 5, 2014.
Indian Americans
- Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, Jonathan Kay and Milan Vaishnav, “Discrimination against Indian Americans happens more than you might think,” June 10, 2021.
- Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav, “Why Indian Americans are not becoming Republicans any time soon,” October 15, 2020.
- Sara Sadhwani, “Kamala Harris is likely to bring in Indian American voters, this research finds,” August 15, 2020.
- Devesh Kapur, “The Indian prime minister and Trump addressed a Houston rally. Who was signaling what?” September 29, 2019.
- Bidisha Biswas and Ramya M. Vijaya, “This is why Indian immigrants won’t benefit from Trump’s immigration plan,” March 1, 2018.
- Sangay K. Mishra, “An Indian immigrant is murdered in Kansas. It’s part of a spike in hate crimes against South Asians,” March 7, 2017.
- Janelle Wong, “This is what Asian Americans really think about undocumented immigration,” May 23, 2017.
- Karthick Ramakrishnan and Sono Shah, “Three reasons why nominating Sri Srinivasan for the Supreme Court could change U.S. elections,” March 14, 2016.