Thread by @KatAdeney

I’ve been focusing on #Pakistan and #CPEC recently, but wanted to tell you all about this article on #India that @WilfriedSwenden and I published recently. In it we assess Lijphart’s claim that India should be coded as consociational 1/n. rdcu.be/b0eGR/n

Wilfried and I aren't the first ones to do this but we use new data, some from @TCPD_Ashoka to assess power sharing in #India in relation to #religion #caste, #territory and #language 2/n

In relation to the Union #Cabinet we find that #Muslims are under-represented according to their proportion of the population and that this is getting worse 3/n #India

In the Indian cabinet we also find that #OBCs are under-represented compared to their proportion of the population 4/n

We have also tabulated the positions that religious minorities have held in the Indian Cabinet (I'm very proud of this) between 1947-2018 5/n #India #religion

When we turn to positions in the #INC Working Committee we show that although Christians and Sikhs have generally been over-represented compared to their proportion of the population, Muslims have been under-represented despite the INC's secular credentials 6/n #India

Unsurprisingly, the #BJP's National Executive over-represents Hindus compared to their percentage of the population 7/n #India

Using data from @TCPD_Ashoka we show that #Muslims & #OBCs are under-represented in the #LokSabha compared to their proportion of the population, and that higher castes are over-represented 8/n #India #caste

When we turn to the civil service we find that OBCs are still under-represented according to their share of the population despite the #Mandal report 9/n

Our data in this article clearly bears out that minority groups in #India, other than dominant minority groups such as upper caste Hindus are not systematically co-governing the centre as part of a Grand Coalition 10/n

Key groups, in particular #OBCs and #Muslims remain under-represented in relation to their share of the population, be it in senior political, administrative or judicial offices. 11/n #India

Of course, there are state level variations, and this is where we would encourage more research as our paper concentrates only on the national level of #India 12/12

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