#752
April 2022
SHE RULES!
a symposium on
the political representation of women in India
cover design by www.designosis.in
Next Month : Fables of Violence
symposium participants
•   THE PROBLEM
Posed by Rachel Brulé, Assistant Professor of Global
Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies,
Boston University; Simon Chauchard, Distinguished Investigator,
Department of Social Sciences, University Carlos III, Madrid;
Alyssa Heinze, Phd. student of Political Science, University of
California, Berkeley; and Mekhala Krishnamurthy Senior Fellow,
Centre for Policy Research, Delhi and Associate Professor of
Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University
•   WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN INDIAN NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Gilles Verniers, Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Co-
Director, Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University;
Ishika Sharan, Research Fellow, Trivedi Centre for Political Data;
and  
Aishwarya  
Sunaad,
student,
Ashoka
University,
Sonipat
   WOMEN IN RAJNITI AND LOKNITI
Mukulika Banerjee, Associate Professor, Social Anthropology,
London School of Economics and Political Science
•   ARE HUSBANDS THE PROBLEM?
Rachel Brulé, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy,
Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University;
Simon Chauchard, Distinguished Investigator, Department of Social
Sciences, University Carlos III, Madrid and Alyssa Heinze, Phd.
student of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
•   WOMEN'S NETWORKS AFTER ELECTIONS
Bhumi Purohit, Ph.D candidate in Political Science, University of
California, Berkeley, and incoming Assistant Professor of Public
Policy, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.
•   WHEN WOMEN'S ELECTORAL REPRESENTATION MATTERS
Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Stanford University, California
•   FROM A GUNGI GUDIYA TO AN AUTOCRAT
Sonakshi Sharma, Research Associate, State Capacity Initiative,
Centre for Policy Research, Delhi
•   THE FEMINIZATION OF ELECTORAL POLITICS
Tara Krishnaswamy, activist, author and Co-Founder, Political
Shakti, Bengaluru
•   POPULISM, PARLIAMENT AND PERFORMANCE
Shirin M. Rai, Professor of Politics and International Studies;
Director, Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International
Development, Coventry; and Carole Spary, Associate Professor,
School of Politics and International Relations, University of
Nottingham
•   SURVIVING A THOUSAND CUTS
Akshi Chawla, independent researcher and editorial consultant;
runs #WomenLead, a publication about women in politics, Delhi
•   BOOKS
Reviewed
by
Surili
Sheth,
Ummul
Fayiza,
Tanika
Sarkar
and
Dipankar Gupta
•   COMMENT
Agents of Change
Vishakha
N.
Desai,
Shagun
Sethi
and
Sandi
Gendi
•   IN MEMORIAM
Gerson
da
Cunha
1929-2022