India’s democratic openness reduced the political exile of its writers

Evidence

The fact that India offers far greater democratic freedom than virtually any other ex-colonial country means, of course, that a wide range of dissents can be expressed inside the country, largely eliminating the circumstances which have often forced writers from many other countries into political exile. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 118

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with exile figures in postcolonial literature, e.g. Salman Rushdie’s exile — and with the reader’s own library on displacement (The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Home Boy, The Namesake all deal with migrancy).