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The Saffron Wave Meets the Silent Revolution: Why the Poor Vote for Hindu Nationalism in India
THE SAFFRON WAVE MEETS THE SILENT REVOLUTION: WHY THE POOR VOTE FOR HINDU NATIONALISM IN INDIA A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Tariq Thachil August 2009 © 2009 Tariq Thachil THE SAFFRON WAVE MEETS THE SILENT REVOLUTION: WHY THE POOR VOTE FOR HINDU NATIONALISM IN INDIA Tariq Thachil, Ph. D. Cornell University 2009 How do religious parties with historically elite support bases win the mass support required to succeed in democratic politics? This dissertation examines why the world’s largest such party, the upper-caste, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has experienced variable success in wooing poor Hindu populations across India. Briefly, my research demonstrates that neither conventional clientelist techniques used by elite parties, nor strategies of ideological polarization favored by religious parties, explain the BJP’s pattern of success with poor Hindus. Instead the party has relied on the efforts of its ‘social service’ organizational affiliates in the broader Hindu nationalist movement. The dissertation articulates and tests several hypotheses about the efficacy of this organizational approach in forging party-voter linkages at the national, state, district, and individual level, employing a multi-level research design including a range of statistical and qualitative techniques of analysis. In doing so, the dissertation utilizes national and author-conducted local survey data, extensive interviews, and close observation of Hindu nationalist recruitment techniques collected over thirteen months of fieldwork. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Tariq Thachil was born in New Delhi, India. He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Stanford University in 2003. -
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Satnami Self-Assertion and Dalit Activism: everyday life and caste in rural Chhattisgarh (central India) Yasna Singh A thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 2013 0 Abstract This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of the way in which local actors who engage in Ambedkarite discourses in rural Chhattisgarh are disconnected from the larger pan-Indian social movement. It goes beyond the literature that looks at Dalits in the urban context by focusing on Dalits in rural India. The aspects under investigation are caste, social and sectarian movements, youth, rights, intergenerational difference and education. The Satnami community examined here is located in a village where they are in more or less the same economic position to other castes. These other castes, however, practice ‘distancing’ from them to avoid ‘pollution’, which is a cause for smouldering resentment. Satnamis have been historically militant. They acquired additional land and assert themselves through a sectarian movement. They have their own functionaries and pilgrimage site. Their sectarian ideology advances the claim that they are independent (swatantra) from other castes and have mitigated exchange (len-den) with them. Nevertheless, they remain at the bottom of the village caste hierarchy and face everyday forms of caste oppression. Educated Satnamis in the younger generation claim that they know more (jaankar) about their rights (adhikaar) and aspire to change by becoming “key social animators”. These young men are organised in an association (samiti/samuh) that draws on Ambedkar’s ideas about overcoming caste oppression. -
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CENTRAL CC PAGE 09 PAGE 11 https://www.facebook.com/centralchronicle Raipur, Monday, January 04, 2021 I Pages 12 I Price R 3.00 I City Edition I Fastest growing English Daily of Chhattisgarh www. centralchronicle.in BRIEF ‘MADE-IN-INDIA’ TAG Cong slams govt over rice procurement from Chh’garh for central pool Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 India, despite several re- and will the procurement New Delhi, Jan 03 (PTI): quests, he said. This would only start when their Accusing the Centre of impact close to 21.52 lakh friends get control of stor- showing "apathy" towards farmers, Vallabh said. age?" he asked. vaccines approved farmers, the Congress on Due to FCI not lifting Are the farmers paying Sunday said the Food stocks, there is no more the price for voicing their For restricted Corporation of India's space left to stock paddy as protests against the farm Zydus Cadila gets DCGI nod for phase III trials Chhattisgarh unit was not well, he said. laws and what about the emergency use The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved con- lifting the rice stocks and "This is a clear case of "false promise" that the A great milestone ducting phase III trials of the country's first DNA vaccine candi- asked whether the pro- complete apathy towards government procurement date against COVID-19 being developed by Zydus Cadila, the curement was "halted" be- farmers who are fighting of foodgrains will contin- in India’s scientific Department of Biotechnology said on Sunday. The vaccine can- cause the government's for their rights and to save ue, he asked. -
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Lokniti-CSDS-ABP News Pre Election Surveys in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh November 8, 2018
Lokniti-CSDS-ABP News Pre Election Surveys in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh November 8, 2018 Lokniti-CSDS-ABP News Pre Election Surveys in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh About the Surveys Pre-election surveys were conducted by Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, for ABP News. The survey in Madhya Pradesh was conducted from October 18 through October 25, 2018 among 5512 voters in 235 locations (polling stations) spread across 57 assembly constituencies (the State has a total of 230 assembly constituencies). In Rajasthan, the survey was conducted from October 20 to October 26 among 5554 voters in 205 locations situated in 50 assembly constituencies (out of 200). The Chhattisgarh survey was conducted between October 16 and October 26 among 3026 voters in 122 locations spread across 30 assembly constituencies (out of 90). The sampling design adopted for all 3 States was multi-stage random sampling. The assembly constituencies where the survey was conducted were randomly selected using the probability proportional to size method. Thereafter, four polling stations within each of the sampled constituencies were selected using the systematic random sampling method. However, in sampled constituencies with a highly urban profile (urban population >70%) five polling stations were randomly selected instead of four since response rates in urban areas are usually low in election surveys. Finally, 38 voters were randomly selected from the electoral rolls of the sampled polling stations of which the field investigators were asked to interview at least 25. Before going to the field for the survey, field investigators were imparted training about the survey method and interviewing techniques at training workshops held in Bilaspur, Ujjain and Udaipur.