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Christophe Jaffrelot

Christophe Jaffrelot

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Political Science

D-Index
38
Citations
8980
World Ranking
568
National Ranking
81

Overview

Christophe Jaffrelot is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary fields of study include Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with significant contributions in the subfields of Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to South Asian Studies and Conflicts, Indian History and Philosophy, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies, Indian and Buddhist Studies, Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East, as well as Social and Economic Development in India.

Key recent papers authored by Christophe Jaffrelot include:

  • A new party system or a new political system?, 2020, Contemporary South Asia
  • The BJP's 2019 election campaign: not business as usual, 2020, Contemporary South Asia
  • Le capitalisme de connivence en Inde sous Narendra Modi (Études du CERI, n°237), 2022, SPIRE (Sciences Po)

Other notable recent papers coauthored or closely related include:

  • The reconfiguration of India's political elite: profiling the 17th Lok Sabha, 2020, Contemporary South Asia
  • Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India, 2023, Political Psychology

Frequent co-authors of Christophe Jaffrelot are:

  • Pratinav Anil
  • Delphine Allès
  • Gilles Verniers
  • Anne M. Blackburn
  • Satish Deshpande

Their works appear regularly in several publication venues, most notably:

  • Contemporary South Asia
  • SPIRE (Sciences Po)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Studies in Indian Politics
  • Political Psychology

Christophe Jaffrelot has contributed to multiple book publications with different prestigious publishers. Notable titles include:

  • Modi's India, Princeton University Press, 2021
  • India's First Dictatorship, Oxford University Press, 2021
  • Gujarat Under Modi, Oxford University Press, 2024
  • Contemporary Populists in Power, The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, 2022
  • Order and Agency in the Indo-Pacific, The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, 2025
  • Gujarat Under Modi. Laboratory of Today's India, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2024
  • Histoire de Bombay/Mumbai, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2024

Best Publications

  • The Hindu nationalist movement and Indian politics : 1925 to the 1990s : strategies of identity-building, implantation and mobilisation (with special reference to Central India)

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Hindu Nationalism: A Reader

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • The Hindu nationalist movement in India

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Religion, Caste and Politics in India

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • A history of Pakistan and its origins

    Christophe Jaffrelot;Gillian Beaumont

  • Pakistan: Nationalism without a Nation

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation

    Laurent Gayer;Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Patterns of middle class consumption in India and China

    Christophe Jaffrelot;Peter van der Veer

  • Rise of the Plebeians? : The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies

    Christophe Jaffrelot;Sanjay Kumar

  • The Rise of the Other Backward Classes in the Hindi Belt

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience

    Christophe Olivier Jaffrelot

  • The Sangh Parivar : a reader

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • The BJP and the compulsions of politics in India

    Thomas Blom Hansen;Christopher Jaffrelot

  • The Modi-centric BJP 2014 election campaign: new techniques and old tactics

    Christophe Olivier Jaffrelot

  • L'Inde contemporaine, de 1950 à nos jours

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • India's look east policy: an Asianist strategy in perspective

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Les nationalistes hindous : idéologie, implantation et mobilisation des années 1920 aux années 1990

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • The Sangh Parivar and the Hindu Diaspora in the West: What Kind of “Long-Distance Nationalism”?

    Christophe Jaffrelot;Ingrid Therwath

  • The Impact of Affirmative Action in India: More Political than Socioeconomic

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Gujarat Elections: The Sub-Text of Modi’s ‘Hattrick’—High Tech Populism and the ‘Neo-middle Class’:

    Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India

    Angana P. Chatterji;Thomas Blom Hansen;Christophe Jaffrelot

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