Thinking about the World Podcast – Arvind Kumar

In this episode of the Thinking Global podcast, Dr. Arvind Kumar chats with Tusharika (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) about Indian elections 2024. Dr. Kumar talks about the importance of these elections, major political personalities and parties in India, small class parties, candidate selection procedure, etc. This is the second episode of our multilingual series ‘India Votes’ 2024. This interview was also conducted in Hindi, available above.

Arvind Kumar (@arvind_kumar__) is a lecturer in sociology and criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also an executive member of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS). He recently completed his PhD in Politics at Royal Holloway, where his thesis focused on candidate selection, voting behavior and marginal caste mobilization in Uttar Pradesh. He writes regularly for publications such as Printing, India Today, First Post.

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