Rise of the plebeians? : The changing face of Indian legislative assemblies
Jaffrelot Christophe
Rise of the plebeians? : The changing face of Indian legislative assemblies
- New Delhi Routledge 2009
- 494p xxxvi
Table of contents Foreword Yogendra Yadav; Introduction Christophe Jaffrelot; Part 1: North India towards Social Engineering; 1. The Political Elite in Uttar Pradesh Jasmine Zerinini-Brotel; 2. Bihar: The New Stronghold of Plebeian Politics Cyril Robin; 3. The Uneven Rise of the Lower Castes in Madhya Pradesh Politics Christophe Jaffrelot; 4. From the Upper Castes to the Dominant Caste Politics in Rajasthan: A Conservative Pattern of Political Evolution Christophe Jaffrelot; 5. Gujarat: When Patels Resist the Kshatriyas Ghanshyam Shah and Kiran Desai; Part 2: The Reign of Dominant Castes in the Deccan; 6. Maharashtra or Maratha Rashtra? Rajendra Vora; 7. Legislators in Karnataka: The Resilience of Dominant Castes Sandeep Shastri; 8. Andhra Pradesh: A Two-dominant Caste Socio-political System Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee; Part 3: The Tamil Exception: The Subalternist Tradition; 9. Caste and Beyond in Tamil Politics Jean-Luc Racine; Part 4: Where the Upper Castes Resist; 10. The Resilient Bhadralok: A Profile of the West Bengal MLAs Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal; 11. Socio-economic Background of Legislators in Kerala Gopa Kumar; 12. The Socio-economic Profile of the Legislators of Himachal Pradesh T.R. Sharma; 13. The Changing Face of Delhi's Politics? Sanjay Kumar; Part 5: Alternative Routes; 14. The Punjab's Legislative Elite T.R. Sharma; 15. The Jharkhand, between Tribal Mobilisation and the Rise to Power of the OBCs Cyril Robin; 16. Chhattisgarh: Tribals, OBCs, Reformist Movements and Mainstream Politics Samuel Berthet
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