India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North IndiaSince 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
CONGRESS IN POWER OR INDIA | 11 |
party of the intelligentsia or party | 48 |
Indira Gandhi the populist repertoire and the aborted | 115 |
82 | 128 |
THE UNEVEN EMANCIPATION | 144 |
Were there Low Caste movements in North India? | 185 |
Caste as the building block of the Other Backward | 214 |
QUOTA POLITICS | 254 |
The quest for power and the first Janata Government | 305 |
The Lok Dal fighting for Mandal | 327 |
The Janata Dal and the rise to power of | 335 |
The B S P party of | 387 |
THE UPPER CASTES POLITICAL | 426 |
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Common terms and phrases
administration Ambedkar Arya Samaj Backward Classes Backward Classes Commission bahujan samaj Banya/Jain Banyas Bhumihar Bihar Bombay Brahmins British candidates CASTE AND COMMUNITY caste associations caste leaders caste system Chamars Charan Singh Chief Minister Cited coalition Committee Congress party Constitution Dalit Delhi democracy district dominant Dravidian electoral elite emphasised groups Hindi belt Hindu Ibid implement Indira Gandhi Intermediate castes Janata Party Jatavs Kanshi Ram Kayasth kisan politics Koeris Kshatriyas Kurmi land reform Lohia Lok Sabha low castes lower castes Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Mahasabha Malaviya Mandal Commission Marathas Mayawati MLAs mobilisation movement Mulayam Singh Yadav Muslim Nehru non-Brahmin North India OBCs organisation peasants Phule Prasad President programme quota politics Rajasthan Rajput Report represented reservation policy Sangh Sanskritisation Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes seats social socialist society strategy Tamil Nadu Untouchables upper castes Uttar Pradesh V.P. Singh varna vote zamindars