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    Comment | It’s not the economy, stupid!

    A recent paper goes through surveys, election results and social spending data from 1962 to 2014 and arrives at a simple conclusion: Voter choices in Indian are driven more by caste and identity politics rather than economic interests.

    Ravi Krishnan
    March 19, 2019 / 08:03 IST
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