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Diversity and Change in Modern India: Economic, Social and Political Approaches

Anthony F. Heath and Roger Jeffery

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780197264515

Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264515.001.0001

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Understanding Popular Politics: Caste, Kinship and Factionalism among Yadavs in North India

Understanding Popular Politics: Caste, Kinship and Factionalism among Yadavs in North India

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(p.218) (p.219) 9 Understanding Popular Politics: Caste, Kinship and Factionalism among Yadavs in North India
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Diversity and Change in Modern India
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LUCIA MICHELUTTI

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British Academy
DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264515.003.0009

This chapter discusses the rise of caste politics and the dynamics of Indian popular politics in the 1990s, specifically in the state of Uttar Pradesh. It shows how the interrelation between vernacular socio-cultural idioms and structures have been vital to make ‘democracy’ a part of the Indian political imagination. These have also been used to give information about the political upsurge of the common people and the shaping of political cleavages based on caste or community.

Keywords:   caste politics, Indian popular politics, Uttar Pradesh, caste, Indian political imagination, common people, political cleavages, democracy

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