Stepwell

Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow at the Center for Policy Research discusses how power, ideology and culture shaped US-South Asia relations over the years. How can we understand current US-India policies in the context of past events? How did America's relationship with Pakistan affect India? Why did previous American presidents refer to South Asia as "the most dangerous place"? Srinath leads Patrick through this complicated history on the episode.

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Political scientist Ornit Shani's book How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise examines the way the Indian democratic system was conceptualized and executed, beginning with the unprecedented choice of universal franchise. How were these decisions made? What was the process? How did they execute this incredibly ambitious enterprise? Ornit talks to Patrick about all this and more in this episode.

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Join historian and biographer Patrick French on Stepwell, the Ahmedabad University podcast, as he talks to eminent scholars from around the world, covering a broad range of topics and perspectives that challenge and transform conventional views.

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