India’s Delimitation Dilemma

Grand Tamasha by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

May 6, 202601:12:56News & Politics

India hasn’t updated how political power is distributed across its states in five decades—and the consequences are mounting. Recently, Milan sat down with Shruti Rajagopalan of the Mercatus Center at George Mason Univers...

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