Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program and the host of the Grand Tamasha podcast at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior. He also conducts research on the Indian diaspora.
He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Yale University Press and HarperCollins India, 2017), which was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation book prize for the best non-fiction book on contemporary India published in 2017. He is also co-editor (with Devesh Kapur) of Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India (Oxford University Press, 2018) and (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Devesh Kapur) of Rethinking Public Institutions in India (Oxford University Press, 2017). His work has been published in scholarly journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Asian Survey, Governance, India Review, Journal of Democracy, Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Studies in Indian Politics. He is a regular contributor to several Indian publications.
Previously, he worked at the Center for Global Development, where he served as a postdoctoral research fellow, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (currently on leave) and has previously taught at Columbia and George Washington Universities. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
A discussion about the political inclinations of Indian Americans in the leadup to the 2024 election
A conversation about how Indian Americans will be voting in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
Gil Guerra and Sneha Puri sit down with Milan too discuss the surge in Indian migrants arriving at the U.S. border and the push factors behind this emerging trend.
Ahead of the November U.S. election, a new Carnegie survey reveals the political preferences and issues animating Indian Americans, many of which challenge conventional electoral wisdom.
Political scientist Soledad Artiz Prillaman and Milan Vaishnav explore the reasons behind Indian women's low levels of political involvement and how patriarchy plays a role.
Economist Arvind Subramanian joins Milan Vaishnav for a candid conversation on the looming crisis facing Indian federalism and potential solutions.
Poonam Muttreja, a prominent advocate for women's health and reproductive rights, joins Milan Vaishnav this week to debunk myths surrounding India's overpopulation and conspiracy theories on the country's changing religious demographics.
This week's episode is a special edition of Grand Tamasha-- tune in as India's External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar joins Carnegie's President Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar for a fireside chat on the future of U.S.-India relations.
The resurgence of coalition politics in New Delhi and the presence of a stronger political opposition raise the question of whether the 2024 verdict reflects a repudiation of the fourth party system. A dispassionate analysis of newly available data suggests that many attributes of the new party system persist.
Despite this spring’s electoral setback, the BJP retains its dominant position at the center of Indian politics.