Christophe Jaffrelot - India is inventing an ethnic democracy -

Christophe Jaffrelot - India is inventing an ethnic democracy

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Christophe Jaffrelot is the guest of the new episode of the Crossroads podcast. Christophe Jaffrelot is a Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King’s College London and Research Director at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po (Paris) and at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He is also president of the French Association of Political Science. His research focuses on Hindu nationalism and the role of caste and religion in politics of contemporary South Asia. In 2021, he published a new book Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy (Princeton University Press). ► Follow Global Conflicts and Local Interactions ► Do you like Crossroads? Support our work ► podcast was recorded at the studio Mr. Wombat► sound mix Ondřej Bělíček► sound design Ondřej Bělíček

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