India's silent revolution : the rise of the lower castes in North India
Since the 1960s a new assertiveness has characterized Indias formerly silent majority, the lower castes that comprise more than two-thirds of the population. Today Indias 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
Print Book, English, ©2003
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2003