Join Professor Dr Rahul Mukherji, Modern Politics of South Asia Chair at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, for a lecture and conversation with Professor Maya Tudor, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government.

The lecture will explore the reasons for the decline in India’s credentials as a liberal democracy. India is regarded as a competitive authoritarian regime, where competitive possibilities co-exist with autocratic propensities that have consolidated themselves over time. It will present the results of an analysis of 13 civil society organisations to infer which parts of civil society are most aggressively attacked and for what reason. It will finally conclude with reflections regarding the possibilities for resilience that still exist. The competitive authoritarian condition is an essentially unstable one. It provides more opportunities for democratic consolidation than the possibilities that may arise from a purely authoritarian condition.