The Myth of Rural India

In this podcast, Abhinav Prakash and Kushal take the question of whether India is predominantly a rural or urban polity. Does real India reside in the villages? What does the data indicate? If India is rural is it a good thing? If not why does the political set-up of India give disproportionately more attention to rural India? Are urban poor less important when compared to rural poor? We try to tackle this and many more such related issues in this podcast.

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00:00 Intro
03:47 Rural Indian Myth
12:04 Urbanisation Statistics
18:05 Are we incentivizing Urbanisation?
26:34 Do we need more cities?
40:16 Reverse Migration and what needs to be done?
46:54 Local Elections to Central Elections
47:48 Caste and Urbanisation
54:20 Socialist Hypocrisy
58:40 Super Chat Questionnaire
01:16:21 Closing Remarks

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Link to the paper I talked about in the podcast: https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Tumbe-2016-Working-paper.pdf
Give this a read!

Link to the podcast about Caste issues, ft. Abhinav Prakash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBA_ZYcb8v8

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