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 anthropologist, Professor Assa Doron, Professor of Anthropology and South Asia at Australian National University, Canberra, says, “Mehta’s masterful account of the evolution and rise of the BJP deftly weaves an enormous amount of material into this expansive and authoritative account of modern India. This brilliantly revealing portrait of the inner workings of the party—its ideological bedrock, organizational structure and economic outlook—is brimming with insights about India’s cultural contradictions; political alliances and searing religious tensions. Mehta’s benchmark study deftly brings together the freshness and vigour of on the ground reporting with scholarly precision and vivid descriptions of India’s political, economic and social system. An urgent investigation of Indian democracy, its electoral system and voting patterns; written with anthropological attentiveness to local idioms, gender structure, caste conflict and class relations: a major achievement.”
Professor Doron was Founding Director, South Asia Centre, at Australian National University.
