Independent Indian think tank
Counsel the state.Serve no throne.
Vidura House is an independent Indian think tank. We produce research the state can act on — and advice it may not want to hear — across foreign policy, security, political economy and technology.
- Founded, fully independent
- 2021
- Programmes of record
- 04
- Publications and briefings
- 150+
Programmes
What we work on
01
Foreign policy & geoeconomics
Trade, technology flows and economic statecraft in a world sorting itself into blocs.
02
Security & deterrence
Doctrine, procurement and the industrial base behind credible Indian hard power.
03
Political economy & federalism
Fiscal architecture, coalition politics and the incentives that actually move states.
04
Technology policy
Digital public infrastructure, compute and the governance of systems the state now runs on.
Research
Featured research
The Vidura Indices
The state, measured
Annual measures of how the Indian state is actually performing — built from public data, published with full methodology.
54.2
State Capacity Index
+1.8 this year
61.8
Strategic Autonomy Index
+0.6 this year
71.4
Fiscal Centralisation Index
−0.4 this year
People
The scholars
Events
On the calendar
24Jul 2026
Pricing defence offsets honestly
Upcoming
21Aug 2026
The Vidura Lecture 2026
Upcoming
11Jun 2026
DPI and its second decade
Past
The newsletter
Counsel
One argument a fortnight, from the desks of Vidura House. No noise, no news summaries — what the state should do next, and why.