Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-500) and index.
Part 1: Congress in power or India as a conservative democracy -- Part 2: The uneven emancipation of the lower castes: non-Brahmins in the South, OBCs in the North -- Part 3: Quota politics and Kisan politics: complementarity and competition -- Part 4: The upper Castes' political domination on trial: the congress(I), the BJP and Mandal