India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India

By Christophe Jaffrelot

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231127863
• ISBN13: 9780231127868
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher