ABSTRACT
Part 3 reports findings about how the political universe in India is constructed. Looking at four aspects of political universe – freedom of expression, regional and national identity, nationalism, and populism – we show that on each of these, there are some regional variations just as there are variations across demographic characteristics. But broadly, the political universe of Indians is made up of conditional support for freedom of expression, an urge for balance between regional and national identity, a nationalism that is slightly tilted to the conservative variety rather than the centrist one, and a mostly non-populist attitude to politics.
