nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230824-182854-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230824s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230824-182854-0 doi eng 342 23 Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 On the State of Academia in India Jain, Anmol Verfassungsblog 2023-08-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Economics Department at India’s Ashoka University received an unexpected visit from the Federal Intelligence Bureau. The reason for this visit was a paper titled ‘Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy’ by Sabyasachi Das, an economist. In his research, Das meticulously examined 11 contested seats during India’s 2019 general elections and uncovered imbalanced outcomes that favored the ruling party, BJP. Das noted that ‘the results point to strategic and targeted electoral discrimination against Muslims, in the form of deletion of names from voter lists and suppression of their votes during election, in part facilitated by weak monitoring by election observers.’ The subsequent visit by the Federal Intelligence Bureau is just one among several incidents that highlight the precarious state of academic freedom in India. CC BY-SA 4.0 Academic Freedom BJP Democratic Backsliding India Narendra Modi Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/on-the-state-of-academia-in-india/ raw object