Rise of the Plebeians?

Jaffrelot, Christophe / Kumar, Sanjay (Hrsg.):
Rise of the Plebeians? : the changing face of the Indian legislative assemblies / Ed. by Christophe Jaffrelot ; Sanjay Kumar. - New Delhi [u.a.] : Routledge India, 2009. - xxxvi, 494 S. : Ill., Kt. - (Exploring the political in South Asia ; 2)
ISBN 978-0-415-46092-7
Rs. 895,00
£ 50,00

Beschreibung
For decades, India has been a conservative democracy governed by the upper caste notables coming from the urban bourgeoisie, the landowning aristocracy and the intelligentsia. The democratisation of the ‘world’s largest democracy’ started with the rise of peasants’ parties and the politicisation of the lower castes who voted their own representatives to power as soon as they emancipated themselves from the elite’s domination. In Indian state politics, caste plays a major role and this book successfully studies how this caste-based social diversity gets translated into politics.
   This is the first comprehensive study of the sociological profile of Indian political personnel at the state level. It examines the individual trajectory of 16 states, from the 1950s to 2000s, according to one dominant parameter - the evolution of the caste background of their elected representatives known as Members of the Legislative Assembly, or MLAs. The study also takes into account other variables like occupation, gender, age and education. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Mukulika Banerjee: Foreword
Yogendra Yadav: Preface
Christophe Jaffrelot: Introduction
PART 1: THE HINDI BELT TOWARDS SOCIAL ENGINEERING
1. Jasmine Zérinini-Brotel: The Marginalisation of the Savarnas in Uttar Pradesh?
2. Cyril Robin: Bihar: The New Stronghold of OBC Politics
3. Christophe Jaffrelot: The Uneven Rise of Lower Castes in the Politics of Madhya Pradesh
PART 2: THE NORTH-WESTERN PATTERN
4. Ashutosh Kumar and T. R. Sharma: Legislative Elite in Punjab: A Socio-political Study
5. Christophe Jaffrelot and Cyril Robin: Towards Jat Empowerment in Rajasthan
6. Kiran Desai and Ghanshyam Shah: Gujarat: When Patels Resist the Kshatriyas
PART 3: THE REIGN OF DOMINANT CASTES IN THE DECCAN
7. Rajendra Vora: Maharashtra or Maratha Rashtra?
8. Sandeep Shastri: Legislators in Karnataka: Well-entrenched Dominant Castes
9. Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee: Two Dominant Castes: The Socio-political System in Andhra Pradesh
PART 4: TRIBAL STATES?
10. Cyril Robin: Jharkhand: Between Tribal Mobilisation and the Rise of the OBC
11. Samuel Berthet: Tribals, OBC, Reformist Movements and Mainstream Politics in Chhattisgarh
PART 5: WHERE THE UPPER CASTES RESIST
12. Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal: The Resilient Bhadralok: A Profile of the West Bengal MLAs
13. G. Gopa Kumar: Socio-economic Background of Legislators in Kerala
PART 6: THE DOMAIN OF PROPORTIONALITY
14. Ramesh K. Chauhan, S. N. Ghosh and T. R. Sharma: Himachal Pradesh: The Well-established Domination of Majoritarian Upper Castes
15. Sanjay Kumar: Changing Face of Delhi’s Politics: Has it Changed the Face of the Political Representatives?
PART 7: THE TAMIL EXCEPTION: THE SUBALTERNIST TRADITION
16. Jean-Luc Racine: Caste and Beyond in Tamil Politics

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CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT is Director, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI); and Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He is the director of the quarterly journal Critique Internationale. His most recent publications are The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to 1990s (1996); India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India (2003); and Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste (2005). He has also co-edited (with T.B. Hansen), The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India (1998).
SANJAY KUMAR is Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. His area of interest is electoral politics and speciality is survey research techniques. He was the National Coordinator for the three national surveys (National Election Study 1998, 1999 and 2004) conducted by the CSDS. He was also the country coordinator (India) for the ‘State of Democracy in South Asia’ (SDSA) study carried out in five South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal). He is the core team member of the Asian Barometer Survey led by Prof. Takashi Inoguchi of Cho University, Japan. He has authored various research reports, and contributed to various edited volumes, research journals and national newspapers.

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