Indian Politics & Policy Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2018 | Page 2

IPP INDIAN POLITICS & POLICY vol 1, no. 1 spring 2018 © 2018 policy studies organization Editor’s Introduction .................................................. 1 Sumit Ganguly Tone Shift: India’s Dominant Foreign Policy Aims Under Modi ........................................... 3 Chris Ogden Three and a half Years of Modi: An Economic Assessment ........................................ 25 Vijay Joshi Modi-fying Indian Federalism? Center–State Relations under Modi’s Tenure as Prime Minister ......................................... 51 Chanchal Kumar Sharma and Wilfried Swenden Narendra Modi and India’s Populist Democracy ................................................. 83 Amrita Basu India’s Nationalism in Historical Perspective: The Democratic Dangers of Ascendant Nativism ........................................... 107 Maya Tudor The Second Dominant Party System and India’s COIN Strategy ..................................... 131 Subhasish Ray