India's Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution

by Sanjaya Baru

India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in post-colonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition underway in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite comprising remnants of a feudal gentry, kulaks, a metropolitan business class,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670092444
• ISBN13: 9780670092444
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"