With respect, I disagree. Strategic partnerships go further and deeper when based on shared domestic and international values. Policymakers in Western capitals are already saying privately that the relationship with India will now be more transactional, less values-based. 1/3 https://twitter.com/rohan_mukh/status/1309363283657359361

This surely affects the quality of partnership. E.g. it's close to impossible that the US-India nuclear deal could have happened in the absence of US perceptions of, & rhetoric around, domestically-focused shared identity, as well as outward Indian democratic benevolence. 2/3

Finally, none of us can produce "politically neutral analysis". Arguing that domestic illiberalism doesn't harm India internationally - it takes sides. It is every influential scholar's right to take sides. But there is also great responsibility in this. 3/3