Ideas of India

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Through conversations with top thinkers in the social sciences and beyond, economist Shruti Rajagopalan explores the ideas that will propel India forward.

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Madhav Khosla on the Framing of the Indian Constitution

Welcome to Ideas of India , a podcast where we examine academic thinking that can propel India forward. My name is Shruti Rajagopalan. Today, my guest is Madhav Khosla, associate professor of political science at Ashoka University and the Ambedkar Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia Law School . His latest book, India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy , details the main ideas or traditions of thought that informed the Indian constitutional project and discus...

Aug 20, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 2

Ajay Shah on Indian State Capacity and Policy Priorities

Welcome to Ideas Of India, where we examine the academic ideas that can propel India forward. My name is Shruti Rajagopalan, and I'm an economist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. My guest today is Ajay Shah, professor of economics at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in New Delhi. Over the years I've learned a lot from Ajay's academic and policy-oriented research on India, which is written at the intersection of economics, law, and public administration. His l...

Aug 06, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 1

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