The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste and Religion in India

"This book is an account of how Indian popular democracy works on the ground. Setting itself against conventional theories of democratisation, the book shows how the political rise of one of the most assertive and politically powerful communities in north India - the Yadavs - is situated within a wider process of the vernacularisation of democratic politics, foregrounding the ways in which values and practices of democracy become embedded in particular cultural and social practices, and thus become entrenched in the consciousness of common people." "Scholars of comparative politics, development politics, religious studies, urban studies, anthropology and social history will find this book especially interesting."--BOOK JACKET.

Lucia Michelutti is Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science.