This little-known and extraordinary public battle between Nehru and his own party leadership was the culmination of a larger fight for control between Nehru and the…
Browsing: The New BJP
Nalin Mehta’s latest book The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party is now out. A revisionist history of the BJP, this is a non-partisan study of the party’s political growth, already being acclaimed as a ‘classic’. It has been published by Westland (Amazon) in South Asia, after a fiercely-contested auction featuring the top six publishers in India. Translations in Indian regional languages are also on the way.
With the Karnataka High Court allowing Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at the Idgahground in Hubli, a Hindu organisation, which has been awarded the contract by theHuballi Dharwad…
BJP’s stunning victories in Lok Sabha byelections in Rampur, with over 50% Muslim population, and Azamgarh, with over 40% Muslim-Yadav population, signify deeper shifts. If pollsters…
When Manohar Joshi, Shiv Sena’s first chief minister in Maharashtra, was asked about the possibility of rebelling and leaving his party, he is said to have…
I am gratified that Christophe Jaffrelot and Gilles Verniers have responded to my piece in News 18 on how BJP shifted the caste game in Uttar…
Behind every successful man is a woman, goes the popular saying. BJP’s recent wins in state elections have been propelled by women “Nalin Mehta, political scientist…
The sweeping win shows the social coalition that powered the party to victories in 2014 and 2019 is not only intact but now stronger and deeper.…
Nalin Mehta: «Narendra Modi et Amit Shah ont fait du parti la plus grande formation politique au monde devant le Parti communiste chinois, passant de 35…
“In the recently held Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Samajwadi Party was perceived as the most potent contender to the incumbent Bhartiya Janta Party. Amping up its…
One of the most revealing sidelights of this election has been watching the intellectual twists and turns of a battery of ‘experts’ — academics and journalists…
