Christophe Jaffrelot

Christophe Jaffrelot has been Director of CERI (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po (Paris) between 2000 and 2008. He is Research director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po. His most significant publications are The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to the 1990s, Penguin India, 1996 and 1999, India’s Silent Revolution. The Rise of the Low Castes in North India, Permanent Black, 2003 and Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability. Analysing and fighting caste, New York, Columbia University Press. He has also edited Pakistan, Nationalism without a Nation?, Delhi, Manohar, 2002.and co-edited with P. Van der Veer, Patterns of Middle Class Consumption in China and India, New Delhi, Sage, 2008.