Rise of the sophisticated voter in India (Ashish Ranjan, Bhanu Joshi, South Asia Monitor)

We are fond of defining ‘political eras’ in India. There was the era of Congress dominance after Independence, when the Congress was broadly unchallenged in its rule. There was also the era of Mandal politics in the early 1990s, when the Other Backward Communities (OBCs) rose as a political force in the country. The current political era has often been clumsily called the ‘post-Mandal’ era, which is more a description of what it has come after rather than what it is

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