Development vs. Caste: Assessing the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections in India Introduction The 2019 Lok Sabha elections marked a significant moment in India's electoral politics, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) securing a landslide majority for a second consecutive term. A notable analytical question arising from this mandate concerns the relative weight of development-oriented discourse … Continue reading Assess the extent to which the discourse of development overshadowed traditional caste-based voting patterns in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, considering regional variations, party strategies, and the interplay between identity and performance-based politics.