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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