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”.
如今的印度是个“不自由的民主国家”。美国智库自由之家(Freedom House)把它与匈牙利放在同一级别，而这个词正是匈牙利领导人欧尔班•维克托(Viktor Orbán)发明的。但该智库在细分指标上对二者的评价不同：相比于匈牙利，印度国内的政治权利——特别是选举政治——更健康，但公民权利更弱。更糟的是，公民权利自2014年印度人民党(BJP)执政以来急剧恶化。印度的民主评分仍远高于孟加拉国、巴基斯坦或土耳其等国。但它不是一个“自由的民主国家”：自由之家直接将其归为“部分自由”。