sameeksha Current Issue : VOL 43 No. 46 November 15 - November 21, 2008    See Full Contents>>
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    Uttar Pradesh: A ‘Mayawi’ Revolution   (9th June 2007)
     Anand Teltumbde
          The Bahujan Samaj Party’s victory in UP was a culmination of Mayawati’s politically clever strategy of crafting an alliance between the dalits and the brahmins. To label it a “social revolution” contradicts the very framework of this alliance as a politically convenient arrangement. Its replication in other states would depend on particular caste configurations in every state. It would also be too premature to read in the BSP’s victory the portents of a future “dalit raj” in the country.


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