India, 2014–2024

Hybrid Regime · Republic · South Asia · Present Day era

Dominant-party centralization with Hindu-nationalist mobilization, contested federalism and declining press-freedom indices.

Parliamentary majorities in 2014 and 2019 ended coalition dependence and centralized campaigning around the prime minister. Citizenship legislation, the 2019 Kashmir reorganization and the farm-law protests marked polarizing reforms. Press-freedom and civil-liberty indices declined, and Regimes of the World coded India as an electoral autocracy for part of the period. Growth and welfare digitization sustained electoral dominance amid an active opposition and judiciary.

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Dominant patterns

  • Revolutionary Risk

Political-science factor profile

Each factor 0–100; higher = stronger authoritarian / crisis pole (except institutional stability, where higher = stronger institutions).

Centralization of Power29
Media Control37
Repression43
Nationalism79
Militarization64
Economic Stress26
External Conflict41
Cult of Personality21
Elite Fragmentation55
Institutions52
Social Polarization92
Corruption & Patrimonialism71
Ideological Mobilization86
External Sovereignty98

Economy & society

GDP per capita$6723 (intl-$)
GDP growth+4.3%/yr
Population1.4B people
Share of world population17.8%
Urban share34%
Life expectancy70 years

Closest historical twins

The country-eras whose structural profile most resembles India 2014–2024, by similarity score (0–100).

  1. Hungary, 2010–2024 – similarity 79/100 · shared: Revolutionary Risk
  2. Poland, 2015–2023 – similarity 66/100 · shared: Revolutionary Risk
  3. Turkey, 2002–2011 – similarity 63/100 · shared: Revolutionary Risk
  4. Thailand, 2006–2014 – similarity 63/100 · shared: Revolutionary Risk
  5. Brazil, 2019–2022 – similarity 62/100 · shared: Revolutionary Risk
  6. France, 1815–1848 – similarity 58/100 · shared: Revolutionary Risk
  7. Brazil, 1822–1850 – similarity 58/100 · shared: Revolutionary Risk
  8. India, 1998–2009 – similarity 57/100 · shared: –

What followed

  • Dominant-party politics with a centralised executive.
  • Federal, judicial and electoral contestation persists.