Global Thinking Podcast – Arvind Kumar

In this episode of the Thinking Global Podcast, Dr. Arvind Kumar talks to Tusharika (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) on the 2024 Indian elections. Dr. Kumar talks about the importance of these elections, who are the key politicians and parties in India, class-based smaller parties, candidate selection process and more. This is the second episode of our multilingual India Vote 2024 series.

Arvind Kumar (@arvind_kumar__) is 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 Political Science at Royal Holloway, where his thesis was on candidate selection, voting behavior and mobilization among marginalized castes in Uttar Pradesh.He writes regularly for publications such as Print, India Today, first article.

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