The bloodline: How political dynasties are threatening the world’s largest democracy

In India, the succession of elected officials allows families to run local economies, bringing wealth to the elite and power to the wealthy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls parivaarvad, or dynastic politics, “the biggest enemy of democracy”. And yet India, which is pursuing its Lok Sabha (parliamentary lower house) election, is rife with examples of political inheritances. 

For instance, Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh...