Sarath Pillai

Sarath Pillai is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book project examines the rise and fall of federalist ideas in late colonial India. He tweets at @i_sarathpillai.

The politics of democratic planning in postcolonial India

In Nikhil Menon’s ‘Planning Democracy’, the vision of economic planning shows the strain between technocracy and representative democracy in India

Apr 25, 2023

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