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John McCarthy

Modi’s authoritarianism will make relations with India harder to handle

It would be a tragedy with adverse implications for the West if India’s struggle for internal harmony were to founder on the rocks of majoritarian elective autocracy.

John McCarthyFormer Australian ambassador

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By June 4, Narendra Modi will almost certainly be elected for a third five-year term as India’s prime minister.

The increasing centrality of India to Australia’s world view is a given. It is less certain that managing our future dealings with India will be straightforward.

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