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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Jaffrelot, Christophe
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| Publisher: |
Columbia University Press
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| Date: |
04/24/2003
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.
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