Suhas Palshikar - Electoral Politics in India: The Resurgence of the Bharatiya Janata Party

SANJAY LODHA, SUHAS PALSHIKAR AND SANJAY KUMAR

Part I
The Big Picture

PRADEEP CHHIBBER AND RAHUL VERMA

SUHAS PALSHIKAR

BISWAJIT MOHANTY AND SHREYAS SARDESAI

K.K. KAILASH

Part II
States that brought victory to BJP

A.K. VERMA, MIRZA ASMER BEG AND SUDHIR KUMAR

SANJAY KUMAR

E. VENKATESU

RAJESHWARI DESHPANDE AND NITIN BIRMAL

Part III
Predominance of state specificity

K.M. SAJAD IBRAHIM

P. RAMAJAYAM

PRAMOD KUMAR RAY AND PRABHAT CHANDRA MOHANTY

JYOTIPRASAD CHATTERJEE AND SUPRIO BASU

Part IV
New trends

SANDEEP SHASTRI AND REETIKA SYAL

MOHD. SANJEER ALAM AND HILAL AHMED

SANJAY KUMAR

RAHUL VERMA AND SHREYAS SARDESAI

E. SRIDHARAN

SUHAS PALSHIKAR AND K.C. SURI

Hilal Ahmed is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, India. He works on political Islam, Muslim modernities/representation and politics of symbols in South Asia.

Mohd. Sanjeer Alam is Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, India. His research covers a wide variety of themes including structural and behavioural aspects of politics in India.

Suprio Basu is Assistant Course Director, Rural Awareness and Self Employment Course, Department of Sociology, University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India. He has been Loknitis Coordinator for the state of West Bengal since 2006.

Mirza Asmer Beg is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. He specializes in strategic studies and electoral politics.

Nitin Birmal is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Dr. Ambedkar Arts and Commerce College, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. His area of research is political economy and political process in Maharashtra.

Jyotiprasad Chatterjee is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, West Bengal, India. He pursues research in the field of social movements and democracydevelopment interface, has edited a volume and contributed articles to different journals and collected volumes.

Pradeep Chhibber is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He is also Director of the Institute of International Studies and the Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies. He studies party systems, party aggregation and the politics of India. His most recent book is Religious Practice and Democracy in India (2014, with Sandeep Shastri).

Rajeshwari Deshpande teaches Political Science at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

K.M. Sajad Ibrahim is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. He is also the Director of UGC-Nehru Studies Centre, University of Kerala.

K.K. Kailash teaches in the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, India.

Sanjay Kumar is Professor and Director at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India. His core area of research is electoral politics, but using survey method, he has also been engaged in research on the Indian youth, state of democracy in South Asia and slums of Delhi. His recent publications include Indian Youth and Electoral Politics: An Emerging Engagement, Changing Electoral Politics in Delhi: From Caste to Class and Measuring Voting Behaviour in India (with Praveen Rai).

Sudhir Kumar retired as Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at DAV College, Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has a keen interest in electoral politics, political sociology and the politics of Uttar Pradesh and has published in various journals and books in the field.

Sanjay Lodha teaches in the Department of Political Science at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Previously, he was with the Directorate of College Education, Government of Rajasthan, as Senior Lecturer. He pursued his higher education from St Xaviers College, Calcutta, and JNU, New Delhi. His areas of specialization include state politics, electoral studies, and international relations. He has published/co-authored six books and has contributed to a number of publications. He has more than 40 articles in Hindi and English in reputed academic journals and has completed a number of research projects with national and international institutions.