The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India: Democracy at the Crossroads? edited by Subrata K Mitra, Rekha Saxena and Pampa Mukherjee, Routledge, 2022; pp XXX-354, `1,595 (hardback).

As the title of the volume conveys, it is as much about India’s democracy as about the 2019 general elections. As happens with edited volumes, the chapters are stand-alone and issue-specific in nature. It would have helped if the contributors had read others’ chapters, especially the ones, which have thematic comparability like the state-specific chapters that focus on the electoral process. In this aspect, the volume differs from the Lokniti genre of election studies volumes, which have much structural and thematic uniformity. The present volume’s comparable advantage, however, lies in the way many of its essays go beyond studying the 2019 (or 2014) elections per se and attempt to assess the state of India’s democracy from the vantage of electoral politics.

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The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India: Democracy at the Crossroads? edited by Subrata K Mitra, Rekha Saxena and Pampa Mukherjee, Routledge, 2022; pp XXX-354, `1,595 (hardback).

As the title of the volume conveys, it is as much about India’s democracy as about the 2019 general........

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