Booking
Prices from $19
Date & Time
Thursday, 24 July 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 am AEST
Location
CIS, Level 1, 131 Macquarie Street, Sydney, 2000, NSW
Join us for the launch of Dharma Democracy: How India Built the Third World’s First Democracy – a new take on the world’s largest democracy that challenges what we think we know about India.
How has India managed to keep its democracy alive and thriving when so many other developing nations have failed? Author Salvatore Babones, a Sydney-based sociologist, and former CIS China program director, argues that India’s democratic success story has been seriously underestimated by international observers.
In conversation with Tom Switzer, outgoing executive director of CIS, this event will explore India’s incredible journey and what it means for global politics. Is India really the democratic disaster that some rankings suggest, or is it actually “the poor world’s outlier” in democratic success?
This promises to be a lively discussion about democracy, development, and India’s growing influence on the world stage. We’ll also be announcing a special guest in the coming weeks.