India's silent revolution : the rise of the lower castes in North India / Christophe Jaffrelot.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-500) and index.

Pt. I. Congress in Power or India as a Conservative Democracy -- 1. The Gandhian sources of Congress conservatism -- 2. The Congress: party of the intelligentsia, or party of the notables? -- 3. The Congress Party and the Scheduled Castes: reservations and co-option -- 4. Indira Gandhi, the populist repertoire and the aborted reform of Congress -- Pt. II. The Uneven Emancipation of the Lower Castes: Non-Brahmins in the South, OBCs in the North -- 5. Caste transformations in the South and West: ethnicisation and positive discrimination -- 6. Were there Low Caste movements in North India? -- 7. Caste as the building block of the 'Other Backward Classes': the impact of reservations -- Pt. III. Quota Politics and Kisan Politics: Complementarity and Competition -- 8. The Socialists as defenders of the Lower Castes, Jat politicians as advocates of the peasants -- 9. The quest for power and the first Janata Government -- 10. The Janata Dal and the rise to power of the Low Castes -- 11. The renewal of Dalit politics: The B.S.P. party of the Bahujans? -- Pt. IV. The Upper Castes' Political Domination on Trial: The Congress(I), The BJP and Mandal -- 12. The Congress(I) and the 'Coalition of Extremes' revisited -- 13. The Hindu Nationalist division of labour: Sewa Bharti and the BJP between Sanskritisation and 'social engineering' -- 14. Conclusion.