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

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Jaffrelot, Christophe
Published: 04/24/2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231127868
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 8.62h x 6.08w x 1.37d