Roundtable discussion with Christophe Jaffrelot, Louise Tillin, James Manor and Avinash Paliwal.

Once the Indian election results have been announced, attention will turn to the task of government formation. This roundtable discussion will reflect on the challenges ahead of India’s new government. How different will it be from the one that came before?

How will the new configuration of India’s parliament affect the purposes, capacities and limits of its head of state? How will the new government choose to interpret its mandate? To what extent should we expect continuity or change in the policy priorities, and style of governance, of the new administration?

Our panel of experts on Indian Politics will discuss these questions and more.

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Chair: Anastasia Piliavsky is a social anthropologist who specialises on India’s democratic politics, political corruption and crime, and the role of vernacular values, especially the hierarchical, in India’s politics and otherwise social life.

Christophe Jaffrelot is Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at KCL (he also holds positions at Sciences Po and the CNRS in Paris). He is author and editor of multiple books on the politics of India and Pakistan, and most recently, on the relation of business to politics in India.

Louise Tillin is Reader in Politics at KCL, who has written extensively on federalism in India. She is an editor of Regional and Federal Studies, a leading journal on federalism and territorial politics across the world.

James Manor is Emeritus Professor at the School of Advances Study in London, who has published voluminously on state-society relations, elections, decentralisation and political institutions in India.

Avinash Paliwal is Deputy Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute and Lecturer in Diplomacy and Public Policy at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD).