Indian elections - keep up to date with our recomended research resources.

As India starts its elections.
Here is the first of our postings linking to useful sites for academic researchers.

Get started with this quick two minute guide from the BBC.
The Guardian website also has this quick Interactive guide.

Indian Government official information.
can be found in detail on the Electoral Commission website.
This includes a useful series of electoral maps marking out constituencies, regulations and press releases


New services covering the election.
All these websites have news headlines, poll, and analysis.

India
CNN-IBN 
Economic Times of India
Economic and Political weekly
Express
India Today
Times of India
ND TV

Foreign Press
BBC
Al-Jazeera
Economist
Reuters India coverage
FT 
Guardian
Le Monde
New York Times has a special India ink blog.
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post