Speaker: Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po
Date: Monday 21 January 2013
Time: 6-8 pm
Location: New Academic Building, room 1.15
Chair: Dann Naseemullah, Government Department
The state elections of Gujarat are critical in more than one sense for the polity of India. If Narendra Modi, whose two former ministers are behind the bars for their participation in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom, is re-elected, he will be the only sitting Chief Minister to overcome the anti-incumbency syndrome for the third time. More importantly he will be in a position to project his achievements in terms of economic development and governance in order to appear as the BJP candidate to the post of Prime Minister.
Speaker biography
Christophe Jaffrelot is Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po (Paris). He was Director of CERI (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po, between 2000 and 2008. His research interests include theories of nationalism and democracy, the mobilization of the lower castes and untouchables in India, the Hindu nationalist movement and ethnic conflicts in Pakistan.