Christophe Jaffrelot

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Christophe Jaffrelot (* 1964 ) is a French political scientist whose work focuses on the Indian subcontinent .

He graduated with a diploma and a Dr. habil. of the institut d'études politiques (IEP) in Paris and that of the Sorbonne and also graduated from the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales (INALCO). He heads the Center d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) and is Research Director at the CNRS .

Jaffrelot deals, among other things, with the modernization strategies of India , has written a sympathetic monograph on Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , the leader of the "Untouchables" , and published a study on the ascendancy of the lower castes in northern India over the past decades .

He attributes unrest such as that after the division of the former British India in 1947 mainly to Hindu nationalist parties. Ever since the electoral policy existed in the former colony, they would mobilize Hindus against Muslims , provoke unrest and aim to divide the voters religiously. In an interview with the Nouvel Observateur , Jaffrelot interpreted the attacks on November 26, 2008 in Mumbai as a "call for justice" and an act of revenge for the unpunished Gujarat massacre in 2002, which claimed the lives of around 2,000 Muslims. So it is not a pan-Islamic jihadist movement.

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About Pakistan:

About India:

  • Les nationalistes hindous. Idéologie, implantation et mobilization des années 1920 aux années 1990. Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7246-0619-1 .
  • The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian politics, 1925 to the 1990. Strategies of identity-building, implantation and mobilization (with special reference to Central India) Hurst, London 1996, ISBN 1-85065-170-1 .
  • as editor: L'Inde contemporaine de 1950 à nos jours. Fayard, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-213-59636-0 (New editions: 1997, 2006).
  • La Democratie en Inde. Religion, caste et politique. Fayard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-213-60033-3 .
  • Dr Ambedkar. Leader intouchable et père de la Constitution indienne. Presses de Sciences Po, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7246-0800-3 .
  • as editor with Marine Carrin: Tribus et basses castes. Résistance et autonomie dans la société indienne (= Collection Puruṣārtha. No. 23). Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-7132-1787-3 .
  • India's Silent Revolution. The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India. Hurst, London 2003, ISBN 1-85065-398-4 .
  • Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability. Analyzing and Fighting Caste. Hurst, London 2005, ISBN 1-85065-449-2 .
  • with Alain Dieckhoff : Revisiting Nationalism. Theories and Processes. Hurst et al., London et al. 2005, ISBN 1-85065-763-7 .
  • In the. La démocratie par la caste. Histoire d'une mutation socio-politique (1885-2005). Fayard, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-213-62426-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christophe Jaffrelot: Communal Riots in Gujarat: the state at risk? , Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, Working Paper, May 2003 ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
  2. ↑ Interview with Christophe Jaffrelot in the Nouvel Observateur, Sarah Halifa-Legrand: Quand les musulmans réclament justice , November 27, 2008 ( Memento of the original of July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tempsreel.nouvelobs.com
personal data
SURNAME Jaffrelot, Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French political scientist, research director at the CNRS
DATE OF BIRTH 1964