Indian elections are no longer just battles between political parties. They are becoming contests between larger-than-life personalities — and no leader has reshaped this political culture more ...

NARENDRA MODI, India’s prime minister, is a once-in-a-generation political phenomenon. He commands support for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across class, caste and language. He is the face of his ...

Pictures of Vijay being sold outside a counting station in Tamil Nadu on Monday Film star-turned-politician C Joseph Vijay is on the cusp of history in Tamil Nadu state. On Monday, his political party ...

NEW DELHI, May 7 (Reuters) - India's main opposition Congress party drew increasingly strong backing from Muslim voters while Hindus overwhelmingly voted for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, ...

For years, India's West Bengal state was the great exception to Narendra Modi's political advance. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had swept through India's Hindi-speaking heartland, expanded into ...

Like the British Raj, Hindu nationalists promote ideas about history that are neither truly Indian nor accurate.

Rahul Gandhi's resistance strategy needs a credible political narrative and organisation to challenge BJP's dominance in India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political party won its first-ever state elections in West Bengal. Modi’s popularity was seen to be waning when, two years ago, his party failed to secure a ...

India is winning the standoff between America and China. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast. Right now, ...

Fractured Communities by Umar Khalid offers a richly textured, astute history of Adivasis through the struggles of the Ho community of Jharkhand’s Singhbhum region.

Nepal, June 25 -- Indian politics is inherently anti-women. There is no sugar-coating this perturbing reality. While on one ...