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Meet the maharajas of the world’s biggest democracy

Illustration of an Indian soldier holding a napkin and a tray with a glass of wine, like a waiter

2024-05-02  773  中等

From the offices of district magistrates in remote backwaters to those of the bureaucratic elite in the national capital, and from provincial municipal commissioners to senior tax inspectors, the physical manifestation of the Indian state can often remind visitors of a plastic-chair-cluttered reconstruction of a noble court. That is because Indians are not governed. They are ruled.

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