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

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

Christophe Jaffrelot

505 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced

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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 politicia...

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