Rohan Venkat is the Consulting Editor for India in Transition and a Spring 2024 Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.

May 16, 2024

Interviews

The Techno-Patrimonial Welfare State

An interview with Yamini Aiyar on the BJP’s “new welfarism” in India

The success of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the last decade of Indian politics, and its frontrunner status in this year’s parliamentary elections, has often been attributed to its welfare policies. The rise of Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT)—whereby beneficiaries…