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…
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.
This review of Nalin Mehta’s ‘The New BJP’ appeared in Tribune India on January 23, 2022. – Radhika Ramaseshan. NARENDRA MODI’S ascendancy as Prime Minister in…
[Prime Minister Narendra] Modi’s political ascendance, and what it means for India, is as impactful and far-reaching as the political imprint left by the country’s first…
This review of Nalin Mehta’s ‘The New BJP’ appeared in The Federal News on 16 January, 2022. All eyes are on this crucial assembly election. Between…
A Quran handed down for seven generations of a Hindu zamindar family and a mosque they built 150 years ago show why the Ganga-Jamuna tehzeeb is…
BJP leaders often claim that there is no religious bias when it comes to government schemes. A trip to a village in western UP offers some…
Ever since Yogi Adityanath became chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, there have been allegations of ‘Thakur-raj’, or dominance by upper-caste Thakurs, in the state. His ascent…
HE BJP DRAWS a distinction between ‘Western’ notions of feminism and its own. The older women’s movement drew on early global feminist movements to stress on…
An excerpt from ‘The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party’, by Nalin Mehta. My family’s first domestic political fight, as…
Nalin Mehta’s book, ‘The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party’ is receiving rave reviews from leading global social scientists. Eminent…
