Board #28 - Cultivating a Shared Division: The Role of Colonization in Narendra Modi’s Exclusionary Populism

• In Event: 87-307 - Poster Session: Asian Politics

Brief Overview

This paper uses a case study of India to examine how colonization’s divide-and-rule strategy leaves countries with ethnic cleavages and a latent fear of oppression, contributing to the emergence of exclusionary populism in post-colonial countries.

Author

• Anoushka Mallik, Carleton College