India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India by Jaffrelot, Christophe

India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231127868)

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India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India by Jaffrelot, Christophe

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

$80.00
India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India by Jaffrelot, Christophe

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

$80.00
Format: Hardcover
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Since the 1960s a new assertiveness has characterized India's formerly silent majority, the lower castes that comprise more than two-thirds of the population. Today India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, is controlled by lower-caste politicians, as is Bihar, and lower-caste representation in national politics is growing inexorably. Jaffrelot argues that this trend constitutes a genuine "democratization" of India and that the social and economic effects of this "silent revolution" are bound to multiply in the years to come.

Author: Christophe Jaffrelot
ISBN-10: 0231127863
ISBN-13: 9780231127868
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2003
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 8.62h x 6.08w x 1.37d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 987
By Christophe Jaffrelot
By Christophe Jaffrelot
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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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