Uttar Pradesh

The End of a Political Model in Uttar Pradesh

The BSP’s strategy of combining a core base with moneyed candidates no longer works in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP has crafted a new winning formula that uses only elements of this old model.
▶05-Apr-2022
Gilles Verniers

Understanding Small Caste-Based Political Parties in India

The story of the Vikassheel Insaan Party or VIP, a party of the Nishad community in Bihar, is important for understanding the positives and negatives of the rise of small caste-based political…
▶07-Aug-2019
Sarthak Bagchi

The New Modi Wave as Seen from Eastern UP

Ahead of the May elections, observers in Gorakhpur in eastern UP could sense a groundswell of support for the BJP. The old caste dynamics had broken down and the efficient delivery of welfare…
▶09-Jul-2019
Shashank Chaturvedi, Sanjay Kumar Pandey, David N. Gellner