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India's silent revolution : the rise of the lower castes in North India

Jaffrelot argues that the trend towards lower-caste representation in national politics 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
xiv, 505 pages ; 23 cm
9780231127868, 9788178240800, 0231127863, 8178240807
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Congress in power or India as a conservative democracy
The uneven emancipation of the lower castes : non-Brahmins in the South, OBCs in the North
Quota politics and Kisan politics : complementarity and competition
The upper castes' political domination on trial : the Congress(I), the BJP, and Mandal