India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital

Rahul A. Sirohi

Review of International Political Economy, 2025, vol. 32, issue 6, 1924-1952

Abstract: The last decade or two has witnessed a surge of right-wing, authoritarian movements across the world. India, despite its long history of liberal democracy, has not been an exception to this trend. With the scale and nature of the transformations that have been unfolding, a large literature has emerged on the rising tides of authoritarianism in India. Much of this scholarship, however, has drawn on Northern experiences and the theoretical frameworks of leading Northern thinkers. It is precisely here that this article seeks to enter the debate by studying India in a Latin American mirror. In particular, it draws on the writings of Brazilian Marxist, Ruy Mauro Marini, one of the most prolific thinkers to have emerged from post-War Latin America. Marini wrote extensively on the dynamics of unequal exchange but also developed an incisive framework to understand the authoritarian wave that engulfed Latin America during the 1960s and 70s. He came to understand the authoritarian turn as being shaped by political economy processes and underlined the need to theorise these social processes in the context of world-system level hierarchies. It is this totalising perspective that is used as an entry point to assess the recent political trajectory of India.

Date: 2025
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