Gujarat Under Modi: The Blueprint for Todays India

About the BookTHE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF NARENDRAS MODIS THREE TERMS AS CHIEF MINISTER OF GUJARAT, WHICH SET THE TEMPLATE FOR HIS RULE OVER INDIA.In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first BJP politician to be thrice elected to lead a state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as chief minister of Gujarat being the longest in that states history. Modi and his supporters explained his achievement by pointing to economic growth under his leadership, yet detractors point out that Modi has been more business-friendly than market-friendlyto the benefit of large industrial corporations, and at the cost of great social polarisation.A marketing genius, Modis messaging combines the politics of Hindutva with economic modernisation, to the clear appreciation of Gujarats middle class.In this new and revelatory book, Christophe Jaffrelot shows how Modis Gujarat served as a blueprint for Modis India, not only in terms of Hindu majoritarianism and national populism, but also of caste and class politics.About the AuthorDr. Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the Kings India Institute (London), President of the French Political Science Association and Chair of the British Association for South Asian Studies. In 2023 he has been appointed co-director of the Sciences Po South Asia Program. He is also a Non Resident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Permanent Consultant at the Centre for Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Among his recent publications are, The Pakistan Paradox. Instability and Resilience, London, Hurst; New York, Oxford University Press; New Delhi, Random House, 2015, (as a co-editor with A. Kohli and K. Murali) Business and Politics in India (New York, OUP, 2019) and (as a co-editor with A. Chatterji and T.B. Hansen) The Majoritarian State. How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (London Hurst, Delhi, HarperCollins, 2019), as co-author with Pratinav Anil, Indias First Dictatorship. The Emergency, 1975-77 (London, Hurst; New York, OUP; Delhi, HarperCollins, 2020) and as sole author Modis India. Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy (Princeton University Press and Bangalore, Westland, 2021) and Gujarat under Modi (London, Hurst; New York, OUP and Bangalore, Westland, 2024).Hes currently part of three research projects on Shared sacred sites in South Asia, Muslims in India and The Indian Media.