Christophe Jaffrelot Research fellow at CNRS, Christophe Jaffrelot is deputy director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris. He teaches South Asia politics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. He is the editor-in-chief of Critiqe Internationale.

He has recently published The Hindu nationalist movement and Indian politics, 1925 to 1990s, New York, Columbia University Press; London, Hurst and Co; New Delhi, Penguin India, 1996 (second edition, 1999), 582 pages, La d'mocratie en Inde - Religion, Caste et Politics, Paris, Fayard, 1998, Dr Ambedkar, leader intouchable et pSre de la Constitution indienne, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2000 and India's silent revolution. The rise of the low caste in North Indian politics, London, Hurst, (forthcoming).

He has also edited L'Inde contemporaine - De 1950 ... nos jours, Paris, Fayard, 1996 (second edition in 1997), 742 pages with T.B. Hansen, The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998 (second edition, 2000), Pakistan, carrefour de tensions r'gionales, Bruxelles, Complexe, 1999, 143 pages, D'mocraties d?ailleurs ? D'mocraties et d'mocratisations hors d?Occident, Paris, Karthala, 2000, 638 pages and Le Pakistan, Paris, Fayard, (forthcoming). Read More Read Less