The ascent of majoritarianism

Dr Jaffrelot provides the historical process by which lynch mobs have come to be idolised and how brigades of angry young Hindus have been raised

Due to the closure of the publishing house Westland, readers with interest in the rise and growth of Hindu national politics are advised to either head right away for the nearest well-stocked bookstore or order this masterly book online. From the time Christophe Jaffrelot’s first book on India, Hindu Nationalistic Movement and Indian Politics; 1925 to the 1990s, based on his 1991 PhD thesis, became available in India in the mid-1990s, he has been indisputably a formidable academic on this extremely important and now dominant political thought in India. At one point, it appeared that this book would not be