Abstract
Abstract This chapter introduces the theoretical and empirical approach of the book to cases in South Asia. It begins with introducing the puzzle of the prevalence of populism in South Asia, despite multiple factors that should make this difficult, including long-standing, “primordial” social divisions. It then surveys the literature on national and subnational populisms in the region in relation to the book’s typology of populism. The chapter previews the historical narrative of cycles of national populist politics, beginning with crises of representation and being resolved by first reordering populisms of the left and then additive populisms of the right. It discusses how populism explains party system convergence in South Asia when most theory predicts political system fragmentation.
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