# To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism **Author:** Debasish Roy Chowdhury **Date Read:** 2023/06/17 **Rating:** 4/5 **Bookshelves:** ## My Review Almost gave it a 4 star for the chapter on health/Covid-19 which I thought is poorly researched and written in an otherwise extensively well referenced and researched book which critically analyses post-colonial India politics, democracy, social change, social institutions and their shifts and drifts through Nehru, Gandhi, 90s, 2000s and the recent BJP/Hindutva era. While the severity of criticism is bestowed most in tbr recent decade, the analysis penetrates into the history of decay of social institutions through congress and previous regimes. A good book to read before Parakala Prabhakar’s “The crooked timber of new india”.