Christophe Jaffrelot

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According to Wikipedia, Christophe Jaffrelot is a French political scientist and Indologist specialising in South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan. He is a professor of South Asian politics and history the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales at Sciences Po , a professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's India Institute , and a Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique .

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India's silent revolution : the rise of the lower castes in North Indian politics (2003) (331)
The Hindu nationalist movement in India (1995) (279)
Hindu Nationalism: A Reader (2018) (124)
Religion, Caste and Politics in India (2010) (95)
The Hindu nationalist movement and Indian politics : 1925 to the 1990s : strategies of identity-building, implantation and mobilisation (with special reference to Central India) (1996) (94)
The Rise of the Other Backward Classes in the Hindi Belt (2000) (91)
Patterns of middle class consumption in India and China (2008) (87)
A history of Pakistan and its origins (2002) (86)
The Impact of Affirmative Action in India: More Political than Socioeconomic (2006) (86)
The BJP and the compulsions of politics in India (2001) (79)
Pakistan: Nationalism without a Nation (2001) (77)
Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste (2005) (70)
The Modi-centric BJP 2014 election campaign: new techniques and old tactics (2015) (64)
The Pakistan Paradox: Instability And Resilience (2015) (62)
Rise of the Plebeians? : The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies (2009) (61)
India's look east policy: an Asianist strategy in perspective (2003) (59)
Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation (2012) (59)
The Sangh Parivar and the Hindu Diaspora in the West: What Kind of “Long-Distance Nationalism”? (2007) (58)
Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (2019) (54)
Gujarat Elections: The Sub-Text of Modi’s ‘Hattrick’—High Tech Populism and the ‘Neo-middle Class’ (2013) (53)
India’s Democracy at 70: Toward a Hindu State? (2017) (49)
The Sangh Parivar : a reader (2005) (47)
India's Silent Revolution (2002) (47)
What ‘Gujarat Model’?—Growth without Development—and with Socio-Political Polarisation (2015) (41)
For a Theory of Nationalism (2003) (38)
Refining the moderation thesis. Two religious parties and Indian democracy: the Jana Sangh and the BJP between Hindutva radicalism and coalition politics (2013) (35)
Hindu nationalism and the ‘saffronisation of the public sphere’: an interview with Christophe Jaffrelot (2018) (34)
Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System (2005) (28)
Sanskritization vs. Ethnicization in India: Changing Indentities and Caste Politics before Mandal (2000) (27)
India and Pakistan: Interpreting the Divergence of Two Political Trajectories (2002) (27)
The Bahujan Samaj Party in North India: No Longer Just a Dalit Party? (1998) (26)
Narendra Modi between Hindutva and subnationalism: The Gujarati asmita of a Hindu Hriday Samrat (2016) (25)
Rewriting the Code: Software Professionals and the Reconstitution of Indian Middle Class Identity (2008) (25)
‘Why Should We Vote?’: The Indian Middle Class and the Functioning of the World's Largest Democracy* (2008) (24)
Narendra Modi and the Power of Television in Gujarat (2015) (23)
Communal Riots in Gujarat: The State at Risk? (2003) (22)
A new party system or a new political system? (2020) (21)
The 2002 pogrom in Gujarat: the post-9/11 face of Hindu nationalist anti-Muslim violence (2007) (21)
Emerging states : the wellspring of a new world order (2009) (20)
Stories of Peoplehood. (2005) (19)
BJP and the Evolution of Hindu Nationalism: From Periphery to Centre (2003) (19)
The Hindu nationalist reinterpretation of pilgrimage in India: the limits of Yatra politics (2009) (19)
Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists (2010) (19)
The Class Element in the 2014 Indian Election and the BJP’s Success with Special Reference to the Hindi Belt (2015) (18)
Pakistan at the Crossroads: Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures (2016) (17)
Hindu Nationalism and the Social Welfare Strategy (2008) (17)
Gujarat 2002: What Justice for the Victims? The Supreme Court, the SIT, the Police and the State Judiciary (2012) (16)
A De Facto Ethnic Democracy? (2019) (16)
India’s 2009 Elections: The Resilience of Regionalism and Ethnicity (2009) (15)
Class and Caste in the 2019 Indian Election–Why Have So Many Poor Started Voting for Modi? (2019) (15)
Indian democracy: The rule of law on trial (2002) (14)
A De Facto Ethnic Democracy? Obliterating and Targeting the Other, Hindu Vigilantes, and the Ethno-State (2019) (14)
The BJP’s 2019 election campaign: not business as usual (2020) (14)
Gujarat: The Meaning of Modi's Victory (2008) (12)
Re-nationalization of India’s Political Party System or Continued Prevalence of Regionalism and Ethnicity? (2011) (12)
Pakistan : nation, nationalism and the state (2005) (11)
Hindu Nationalism and the (Not So Easy) Art of Being Outraged: The Ram Setu Controversy (2008) (10)
India and the European Union : the Charade of a Strategic Partnership (2006) (10)
Revisiting nationalism : theories and processes (2005) (10)
Malegaon. Who is above the law (2012) (10)
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (2009) (9)
Voting in India: Electoral Symbols, the Party System and the Collective Citizen (2007) (9)
India’s 2014 Elections. A Modi-led BJP Sweep (2015) (9)
The reconfiguration of India’s political elite: profiling the 17th Lok Sabha (2020) (9)
Book Review: Why ethnic parties succeed. Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India (2006) (8)
Business-Friendly Gujarat Under Narendra Modi (2019) (8)
Introduction. The Invention of an Ethnic Nationalism (2009) (8)
Modi's India (2021) (8)
A Constitutional Dictatorship (2021) (7)
The Political Guru: The Guru as Éminence Grise (2012) (7)
Le Sangh Parivar et la diaspora hindoue en Occident : Royaume-Uni, États-Unis et Canada (The Sangh Pariera and the Hindu Diaspora in the West: The UK, the US and Canada) (2007) (7)
Populism in India (2017) (6)
The caste based mosaic of Indian politics (2012) (6)
Caste and Political Parties in India (2012) (6)
The India-US Rapprochement (2009) (6)
The Impact of Urbanization on the Electoral Results of the 2014 Indian Elections: With Special Reference to the BJP Vote (2015) (6)
Quota for Patels? The Neo-middle-class Syndrome and the (partial) Return of Caste Politics in Gujarat (2016) (6)
Hindu nationalism and Indian politics (2004) (5)
Les (Re)conversions à l'hindouisme (1885-1990) : politisation et diffusion d'une «invention» de la tradition / (Re)conversions to Hinduism (1885-1990): The Politisation and the Diffusion of an 'Invention ' of Tradition (1994) (5)
India: the politics of (re)conversion to Hinduism of Christian aboriginals (2011) (5)
From Holy Sites to Web Sites: Hindu Nationalism, from Sacred Territory to Diasporic Ethnicity (2017) (5)
The Hindu nationalist strategy of stigmatisation and emulation of ‘threatening Others’: an Indian style fascism? (2016) (4)
4. Turmoil in the Frontier (2016) (4)
1. The Military and Democracy (2016) (4)
Gujarat 2002: What Justice for the Victims? (2012) (4)
Rise of the Plebeians (2009) (4)
Why should we vote (2010) (4)
The New European Question: the Problem of Post-National Integration (2006) (4)
The Vishva Hindu Parishad: Structures and Strategies (1999) (4)
The Political Economy of the Jat Agitation for Other Backward Class Status (2019) (4)
Minorities Under Attack in Pakistan (2020) (4)
La question musulmane (2009) (3)
India's First Dictatorship (2021) (3)
The BSP in Uttar Pradesh: party of the Dalits or of the Bahujans - or catch-all-party? (2005) (3)
Identifying 1.3 Billion Indians Biometrically. Corporate World, State and Civil Society (2021) (3)
India since 1950 : society, politics, economy and culture (2012) (3)
A de facto ethnic democracy? The obliteration and targeting of the Other, Hindu vigilantes and the making of an ethno-state (2019) (3)
Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. By Ashutosh Varshney. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 384p. $50.00 (2003) (3)
Private Healthcare in India: Boons and Banes (2020) (3)
Army and nation: the military and Indian democracy since independence (2015) (3)
The BJP and the 2004 general election: dimensions, causes and implications of an unexpected defeat (2007) (3)
The Pakistan Paradox (2015) (3)
Hansen, Thomas Blom. The Saffron Wave-Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (2003) (3)
L'Inde contemporaine (2014) (2)
The Politics of Caste identities (2012) (2)
Dominant Castes, from Bullock Capitalists to OBCs? (2020) (2)
3. The Judiciary as a Political Actor (2016) (2)
The Congress in Gujarat (1917–1969): Conservative Face of a Progressive Party (2017) (2)
The Struggle of RTI Activists in Gujarat (2018) (2)
India in 2016: Assessing Modi Mid-Term (2017) (2)
From Jinnah’s Secularism to Zia’s Islamisation Policy (2015) (2)
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (2011) (2)
Refining the 'Moderation Thesis' Regarding 'Radical Parties': The Jana Sangh and the BJP between Hindu Nationalism and Coalition Politics in India (2010) (2)
Introduction (2019) (2)
From Pluralism to Multilateralism? G-20, IBSA, BRICS, and BASIC (2013) (2)
Public Health in India: Lessons of a Pandemic (2020) (2)
Refining the "Moderation Thesis" Regarding "Radical Parties" (2010) (2)
Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism (2018) (2)
The Gulf–South Asia Religious Connections: Indo-Islamic Civilization vs. pan-Islamism? (2018) (1)
The Roots and Varieties of Political Conservatism in India (2017) (1)
Variable-Geometry Military Dictatorship (2015) (1)
10. Pakistan Between Saudi Arabia and Iran Islam in the Politics and Economics of Western Asia (2016) (1)
Pèlerinage et nationalisme hindou : les limites de l'interprétation instrumentaliste (2007) (1)
Secularization without Secularism in Pakistan (2012) (1)
The Global Sangh Parivar: A Study of Contemporary International Hinduism (2012) (1)
Explaining the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections: Introduction (2015) (1)
The Politics of Caste (2011) (1)
New Delhi et le monde (2008) (1)
From Hierarchy to Ethnicity: The Politics of Caste in Twentieth-Century India. By Alexander Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 310p. $99.99 cloth. (2021) (1)
The Making of Indian Revolutionaries (1885–1931) (2017) (1)
US-Pakistan Relations Under Obama: Resilience of Clientelism? (2016) (1)
The Muslims of Gujarat during Narendra Modi’s chief ministership (2016) (1)
The BSP in 2009: Still making progress, but only as a Dalit party (2011) (1)
Le syndrome pakistanais (2013) (1)
Introduction Pakistan, the Interface State (2016) (1)
Interpreting Ethnic Movements in Pakistan (1998) (1)
Pan Islamic Connections : Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf (2017) (1)
La Vishva Hindu Parishad: structures et stratégies (1994) (1)
Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India (2023) (1)
Fear and Violence as Organizational Strategies: The Possibility of a Derridean Lens to Analyze Extra-judicial Police Violence (2020) (1)
Nation-Building and Nationalism: South Asia, 1947–90 (2013) (1)
The Rise of Hindu Nationalism and the Marginalisation of Muslims in India Today (2001) (1)
Pakistan at the Crossroads (2016) (1)
Five Ethnic Groups for One Nation (2015) (1)
From slowdown to lockdown, India’s economy and the COVID-19 shock (2020) (1)
5. Internal Security Issues in Pakistan Prospects of Police and Law Enforcement Reform (2016) (1)
Does Europe matter to India (2009) (1)
India in 2015. A Year of Modi’s Prime Ministership (2016) (1)
13. Conversion and the Arithmetic of Religious Communities (2009) (1)
Democracy by Fragments ? – Centre tricontinental (2020) (0)
Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India. By Tariq Thachil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 352 pp. ISBN 9781107070080 (cloth). (2016) (0)
1. Swami Dayananda Saraswati (2009) (0)
7. M.S. Golwalkar (2009) (0)
T.V. Sathyamurthy, Social Change and Political Discourse in India (1997) (0)
Book Review: Hilal Ahmed, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation (2017) (0)
8. Deendayal Upadhyaya (2009) (0)
6. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (2009) (0)
Anderson (Benedict). The Spectre of Comparisons. Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World (1999) (0)
9. Pakistan– China Symbiotic Relations (2016) (0)
COUTURE, J. K, NIELSEN and M. SEYMOUR (dir.). Rethinking Nationalism. Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 1998, 710 p. (1999) (0)
The Global Sangh Parivar (2012) (0)
South Asian Muslims’ interactions with Arabian Islam until the 1990s. Pan-Islamism before and after Pakistan (2018) (0)
Introduction: Mariam Abou Zahab’s Multiscalar Approach to Islamism: The Social and Local Roots of Sectarianism and Jihadism in Pakistan (2020) (0)
The Subordinate Caste Revolution (2016) (0)
Caste of characters (2017) (0)
Immediate Causes (2021) (0)
Indian Secularism and Its Challenges (2018) (0)
Rest In Peace Bretton Woods (2015) (0)
India, resolucion en la adversidad. (1993) (0)
19. The Economy (2009) (0)
16. Ayodhya, the Babri Masjid, and the Ramjanmabhumi Dispute (2009) (0)
Du nationalisme hindou au nationalisme nucléaire en Inde (1998) (0)
Jihadism, Sectarianism and Talibanism (2015) (0)
Impossible Democracy or Impossible Democrats (2015) (0)
Nasr (Seyyed Vali Reza). The Vanguard of Islamic Revolution - The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan (1997) (0)
The State and the Maoist Challenge in India (2011) (0)
The plebeianization of the Indian political class (2011) (0)
BOOK REVIEW Modi’s India: The Rise of Ethnic Democracy. By Christophe Jaffrelot. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021 (0)
Revolutionary Passions: Latin America, Middle-East And India (2017) (0)
2. The Operational Dynamics of Political Parties in Pakistan (2016) (0)
Stories of Peoplehood.: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership (2005) (0)
Reading Modi, through his speeches (2017) (0)
10. The RSS and Politics (2009) (0)
An Era of Sultans (2021) (0)
Toward Civil War (2002) (0)
Graham (Bruce Desmond) - Representation and party politics, A comparative perspective (1994) (0)
Narenda Modi's Gujarat: Lessons of an Election Victory (2008) (0)
Is India globalisable (2001) (0)
Between Hindu Nationalism and Coalition Politics (2013) (0)
Secularity without Secularism in Pakistan: The Politics of Islam from Sir Syed to Zia (2018) (0)
T.N. Seshan and the Election Commission (2019) (0)
The Judiciary, the Media and NGOs (2015) (0)
2. R.B. Lal Chand (2009) (0)
Democracy, ethnicity and Conflicts in Pakistan - Discussion. (2004) (0)
The democratisation of Indian democracy (2012) (0)
The emergence of Hindu nationalism in colonial Punjab (2004) (0)
Lifting the Emergency (2021) (0)
What Engagement With Pakistan Can -- And Can't -- Do (2011) (0)
After 16 December 2014 (2015) (0)
The Socio-Ethnic Origins of Indian Muslim Separatism (2015) (0)
PAKISTAN AT THE CROSSROADS ONCE AGAIN (2016) (0)
Interpreting the Emergency (2021) (0)
South Asian Studies: Politics (2001) (0)
Shia-Sunni conflicts and electoral politics in Pakistani Punjab. (2004) (0)
B.D. Graham : Hindu nationalism and Indian politics. The origin and development of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1991) (0)
12. The National Language (2009) (0)
Vers une Inde post-congressiste ? (1996) (0)
Democratisation and the making of ethno-religious communities under British rule - Discussion (2004) (0)
The Uneven Geography of Tyranny (2021) (0)
Indian Pharma: A Global Leader Under Pressure (2020) (0)
20. The Diaspora and Hindu Nationalism (2009) (0)
Chatterji (Joya) : Bengal divided. Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947 (1996) (0)
National security and conflict in the North East (2004) (0)
The rise of sectarianism (2014) (0)
The village revisited (2020) (0)
Transnational Learning Networks Amongst Asian Muslims: An Introduction* (2014) (0)
From Hindu Rashtra to Hindu Raj? A de facto or a de jure ethnic democracy? (2021) (0)
Introduction (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Refi ning the “ Modera " on Thesis ” Regarding “ Radical Par " es ” The Jana Sangh and the BJP between Hindu Na " onalism and Coali " on Poli " cs in India (2018) (0)
Steven I. Wilkinson. Votes and violence. Electoral competition and ethnic riots in India. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 293 p. (2005) (0)
An Elite in Search of a State—and a Nation (1906–1947) (2015) (0)
9. Indian Secularism and Its Challenges (2018) (0)
5. Swami Shraddhananda (2009) (0)
3. Har Bilas Sarda (2009) (0)
Islamic State or a Collection of Ethnic Groups (2015) (0)
Storming the World Stage The Story of Lashkar-e-Talba (book review) (2011) (0)
Subverting Institutions Remnants of Democracy (2021) (0)
Between Hindu Nationalism and Coalition Politics: Jana Sangh, BJP and the ‘Moderation Thesis’ Regarding the ‘Radical Parties’ (2013) (0)
4. Madan Mohan Malaviya and Lala Lajpat Rai (2009) (0)
The Resilient Bhadralok: A Profi le of the West Bengal MLAs (2012) (0)
Conclusion (0)
India : Power , to what end ? (2007) (0)
Covid-19, Amplifying the Return of Mass Poverty in India (2020) (0)
China and India: united against the West (2012) (0)
The New World Bank (2014) (0)
La India y China, conflictos y convergencias: litigios territoriales, afirmación anti occidental (2011) (0)
7. Pakistan– Afghanistan Relations Since 2001 There Are No Endgames (2016) (0)
Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave – Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India. Princeton (N.J.), Princeton University Press, 1999, 293 p. (bibliogr., index, glossaire) (2003) (0)
Pakistan: Swat Valley hardened – South Asia Citizens Web (2019) (0)
Mushirul Hasan et Nariaki Nakazato (dir.), The Unfinished Agenda. Nation-Building in South Asia, New Delhi, Manohar, 2001, 536 p. (2003) (0)
The Pakistani Syndrome or the Largely Unrealistic Quest for a Costly Parity (2010) (0)
SATHYAMURTHY (T.V.) ed. - Social Change and Political Discourse in India. Structures of Power, Movements of Resistance. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1994-1996, 4 vol., X-365 p., X- 355 p., XII-602 p., XII-490 p. Bibliogr. Index. (1997) (0)
Hindutva Tradition of Terror – South Asia Citizens Web (2019) (0)
Conclusion: Interpreting the Emergency (2021) (0)
The Political Economy of the Emergency Looking for Ideology (2021) (0)
The parivar in America – South Asia Citizens Web (2018) (0)
Mrs Gandhi’s Personalisation of Power, 1966–1975 (2021) (0)
An Incongruous Coalition (2021) (0)
The emerging states (2009) (0)
14. Reservation and Social Justice (2009) (0)
India: Dynastic Democracy or Lineage Democracy? (2006) (0)
22. Religion and Nationalism (2008) (0)
Religion and Nationalism (2011) (0)
An Uneven Resistance (2021) (0)

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