The BJP and the compulsions of politics in India

by Thomas Blom Hansen

This book has been updated by merging and editing the earlier introduction and afterword as well as presenting a new afterword. The new afterword accounts for the last Lok Sabha elections in 1999 when BJP came back to power and the not-so-good performance of the party in the assembly elections in Feb-March 2000. This book demonstrates how the BJP is not the national monolith it likes to present itself as. The BJP and its present dilemmas and problems are analysed systematically in a regional perspective. Some of the dilemmas of the BJP at the national level are also explored in a critical perspective.

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First published December 17, 1998