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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
Description: Why and how has India’s Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, become so adept at appealing to and recruiting people from the lower castes? And what does this mean for Indian politics in the short to medium term? In this episode we are joined by Samantha Agarwal to discuss the rise of Hindu nationalism, focusing on the strategies it deploys to recruit people and voters from lower caste groups as it seeks to rework its image as a Brahminical and upper caste political organization.Samantha Agarwal is currently at Johns Hopkins University and will soon join the Sc...