India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India

Christophe Jaffrelot

"Building on his brilliant study of Hindu nationalism, Jaffrelot has established himself as one of the leaders of a new generation of Western scholars whose work will be essential reading for India specialists, practioners, and scholars concerned with problems of democratic transition and consolidation. Essential." — Choice

"This big... will allow [readers] to interpret the profound and tantalizing transformations going on in north India today." — Robin Jeffrey, Pacific Affairs

"This is a very fine and useful work, summarizing, synthesizing, and analyzing a vast amount of material to demonstrate the extent to which the transformations of caste politics have indeed led to fundamental as well as systemic changes in [the Indian] political system." — Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia University

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• South Asian Studies

Series

• CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies

About the Author

Christophe Jaffrelot is director of the Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales (CERI), part of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He is the author of The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, which the New York Review of Books hailed as "a scholarly tour de force."

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