Christophe Jaffrelot
Christophe Jaffrelot is senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris, professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King’s India Institute, London, and non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He offers valuable insights on South Asian politics, particularly the methods and motivations of the Hindu right in India.
Articles By Christophe Jaffrelot
Beyond optics, Congress has begun flirting with some of BJP’s favourite campaign themes
The acid test for measuring the degree of Congress secularism today has less to do with symbolic gestures (like temple visits) and the representation of Muslims in assemblies than with concrete public policy.
Quota, old plus new
There are substantial inequalities even within Dalits. In addition to the 15 per cent quota, the community should also have reservation based on socioeconomic criteria.
The regional great game
Crystallisation of Pakistan-Saudi Arabia and India-Iran axes will set off ripples in the region
Quota and bad faith
UP government’s bid to revisit reservation model is as debatable as Centre’s move on upper caste quotas
Moment of the strongman
Liberal challenge is to show that coalitions and collegiality are more effective than one-man shows.
How MP was lost and won
Do Congress victory and BJP defeat in the state presage a blueprint for 2019? Many ‘ifs’ need to be factored in.
Farmers and others
Will the kisan take care of interests of landless peasants as well?
Margins of New India
Adivasis in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh are doing poorly, economically and educationally.
No room for liberal doubt
The choice in Sabarimala is clear: It’s ethno-religious political entrepreneurs vs social reform
Elections and borders
India’s refusal to talk to Pakistan has much to do with BJP’s electoral narrative.
A new Other
In Gujarat, violence against migrants represents a reconfiguration of the state’s ideological repertoire.
Rhetoric and reality
The RSS chief’s speeches reflect an attempt to reconcile Hindutva with the Constitution
The new corruption
Businessman-politician nexus has undermined state’s independence, promotion of public good.
Absence on the bench
Except that the professionalism of the judiciary tends to decrease as one climbs down the judicial institutional ladder.
Secular and communal
Look closer and see how these descriptions have less to do with principle, more with contingency.
Hindu Rashtra, de facto
It is at once a society, civilisation, nation — and state
The dwindling minority
Drop in Muslim representation in legislatures is related to the rise of the BJP.
The uniform code
Under-representation of Muslims in police and army hurts the constitutional project of multi-cultural India
Coalition Country
Will India remain a civilisational-state, post 2019, or continue its march to a unitary, ethno-religious entity?
The same odd coalition
Anti-BJPism is propelling unlikely alliances today — just as anti-Congressism had done in the past
