nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/c984d3d32f07f875 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260328s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/c984d3d32f07f875 doi eng 342 23 Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 The Playbook of Repression - Discourse Management and Thought Policing by the State Hydra in India Jain, Anmol Verfassungsblog 2026-03-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier India is the world’s largest democracy. It is also increasingly a democracy that is eating itself from within. Under the Bharatiya Janata Party governments of Narendra Modi, now in their third consecutive term, the formal architecture of democratic governance remains intact: elections are held, courts sit, and newspapers continue to be published. This post is an attempt to make sense of what is happening. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism BJP long-read Narendra Modi Repression Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/repression-india-bjp-authoritarian-populism/ raw object