![[attachments/To-Kill-a-Democracy-India's-Passage-to-Despotism.jpg|height=240]] ## 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”. ## Reading status - Status: Read - My rating: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Date started / added: 2023/02/13 - Date finished: 2023/06/17 ## Metadata - Author: Debasish Roy Chowdhury - Year: — - ISBN13: ="9789390742790" - Shelves (Goodreads): —