Today’s India is an “illiberal democracy”. Freedom House, the US think-tank, puts it at the same level as Hungary, whose leader, Viktor Orbán, invented that phrase. But it rates the components differently: political rights, notably electoral politics, are healthier in India than in Hungary, but civil rights are weaker. Worse, the latter have deteriorated substantially under BJP rule since 2014. India’s ratings on democracy are still far higher than those of, say, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Turkey. But it is not a “liberal democracy”: Freedom House simply labels the country “partly free”.
如今的印度是個“不自由的民主國家”。美國智庫自由之家(Freedom House)把它與匈牙利放在同一級別，而這個詞正是匈牙利領導人歐爾班?維克托(Viktor Orbán)發明的。但該智庫在細分指標上對二者的評價不同：相比于匈牙利，印度國內的政治權利——特別是選舉政治——更健康，但公民權利更弱。更糟的是，公民權利自2014年印度人民黨(BJP)執政以來急劇惡化。印度的民主評分仍遠高于孟加拉國、巴基斯坦或土耳其等國。但它不是一個“自由的民主國家”：自由之家直接將其歸為“部分自由”。