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Christophe Jaffrelot

Senior Research Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS

Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior research fellow at CERI (Centre de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po (Paris), and research director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute (London). He has been Global Scholar at Princeton University, visiting professor at Columbia University, Yale and SAIS (Johns Hopkins).

He also works at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a Non Resident Scholar and is on the academic council of Ashoka University in India.  

Among his publications are The Hindu nationalist movement and Indian politics, 1925 to 1990s, 1999, India’s Silent Revolution. The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India, 2003, Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability. Analysing and Fighting Caste, 2005 and The Pakistan Paradox. Instability and Resilience, 2015. In 2017, he has co-edited Pan-Islamic Connections. Transnational Networks between South Asia and the Gulf.

He graduated from Sciences Po where he obtained a PhD and the INALCO in Hindi. 
 

Publications
The Europe-India Balance Sheet: Trade, Like-Mindedness and Strategic Interests
Publication - December 2021
Six recommendations from Institut Montaigne for a deeper and stronger rapporchement between the EU and India....
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Analyses
Indian Military Dependence on Russia
5 July 2022 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Aadil Sud
India-Russia defense cooperation explains why India continues to walk a careful tightrope with Russia, and has decided not to condemn its invasion of Ukraine, as previously argued in an Institut Montaigne paper of June 2022. Russia is one of India's largest defense suppliers: according to a 2020...
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Indian Debates on the War in Ukraine: All Roads Lead to a Consensus
7 June 2022 | Christophe Jaffrelot
Two observations can be made regarding the debates about the war in Ukraine taking place in India’s public domain. First, only a very small number of actors are interested in the topic. Not only are ‘international’ sections of Indian newspapers few and far between, but they also focus their...
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Power Play: India’s Shifting Political Landscape
Three questions to Christophe Jaffrelot
16 March 2022 | Christophe Jaffrelot
India’s recent state elections emphasize the extent to which the country’s political landscape is changing. Amidst growing political polarization, parties are playing on identity issues to further their electoral goals ahead of the 2024 election. In the wake of the economic devastation caused...
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Farmers Versus Modi: Reaping the Seeds of Protest
Three questions to Christophe Jaffrelot
30 November 2021 | Christophe Jaffrelot
Narendra Modi symbolically chose November 19, the birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak, to make a historic announcement. He declared that he will repeal three contentious agricultural laws which he had been staunchly trying to push for nearly a year. These laws, which aimed to liberalize...
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India Between Solar Energy and Coal: From a “Green Image” to a “Green Façade”?
29 October 2021 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Hemal Thakker
At the 2009 Copenhagen summit, India was part of a coalition of countries - along with the US and a few so-called "emerging economies" - which was not as interested as Europe in taking climate change seriously. Nonetheless, at the COP21 in 2015, it played a very constructive role alongside Europe...
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South Asia and the Taliban: Ground Zero for a New Cold War? 
23 August 2021 | Christophe Jaffrelot
Afghanistan has been at the heart of Indo-Pakistani relations for over forty years. Indeed, the Pakistani notion of "strategic depth" crystallized in the 1980s: Islamabad, and Rawalpindi where military headquarters are located, were gaining a foothold in Afghanistan in order to carry more weight...
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India’s Covid-19 Crisis: Assessing the Political Impact
Three questions to Christophe Jaffrelot
12 May 2021 | Christophe Jaffrelot
Since the end of April an Indian variant of Covid-19, called B.1.617.2, has been shaking the country’s health system with more than 350,000 daily cases on average. But the consequences of India’s hard-hitting second wave of coronavirus may not stop with the sanitary repercussions. It could also...
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India’s Second Wave: A Man-Made Disaster?
27 April 2021 | Christophe Jaffrelot
In India, daily cases of infection due to Covid-19 have passed a record number of 350 000, the pandemic killing officially about 2,500 people every day, including young men and women. This humanitarian disaster is partly due to the way the Covid-19 virus has mutated: the new "Indian variant"...
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Indian Pharma: A Global Leader Under Pressure
6 November 2020 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Vihang Jumle | Maitreyee Kishor
India is a global supplier of generic drugs. Its export-oriented pharmaceutical industry is extremely profitable but encounters a number of challenges, from domestic demand to human resources. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to light its dependence on imports from China of active pharmaceutical...
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Private Healthcare in India: Boons and Banes
3 November 2020 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Vihang Jumle
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to light the specificities and some of the shortcomings of India’s healthcare infrastructure. This piece looks at the private healthcare system, an industry undergoing rapid development but which comes at a price that many can’t afford, and thus does not...
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Public Health in India: Lessons of a Pandemic
2 November 2020 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Vihang Jumle
The Covid-19 crisis has tested the resilience of India's health system. Shortage of personnel and underfunded infrastructure are amongst the symptoms of India's ill public health system. In the first article of this new series on health issues in India, Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow...
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Covid-19, Amplifying the Return of Mass Poverty in India
15 October 2020 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Hemal Thakker
The Covid-19 crisis in India acts as a revealer (just like in film photography) of latent tendencies - or, for lovers of physics metaphors, as a particle accelerator: it has accentuated the authoritarianism of power and the stigmatization of Muslims (accused of spreading the disease). It has also...
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Emitters in the Spotlight - India: Great Capacities, Lesser Actions?
27 August 2020 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Hemal Thakker
The world’s 5th economy, India, is also the third biggest emitter of CO2. Its vast territory and solar capacity makes it a formidable place for the development of new technologies to reduce the country’s carbon emissions. Yet, the challenge is big due to the numerous political and economic...
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Escalation in the Himalayas - the Stakes for China and India
Three questions to Mathieu Duchâtel and Christophe Jaffrelot
23 June 2020 | Mathieu Duchâtel | Christophe Jaffrelot
The serious incident on the eve of June 15 alongside the disputed border between India and China in the Himalayas resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers and a yet unknown number of Chinese soldiers. It represents a sudden escalation of the tensions that have accumulated at several points on...
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From slowdown to lockdown, India’s economy and the Covid-19 shock
Three questions to Christophe Jaffrelot
11 June 2020 | Christophe Jaffrelot
In his new policy brief: From slowdown to lockdown, India’s economy and the Covid-19 shock, Christophe Jaffrelot assesses the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the Indian economy. He argues that the lockdowns are aggravating the slowdown that India was already experiencing as a result of...
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India in the Age of Coronavirus: a Global Time Bomb?
31 March 2020 | Christophe Jaffrelot
Recently, the Washington Post wondered whether South Asia and its two billion people, more than one fourth of the world population, would be the next hot spot of the coronavirus outbreak. Over the last few days, this concern has gained pace as India – on which we will focus – is recording the...
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Citizenship Law in India, a Populist Polarization?
Three Questions to Christophe Jaffrelot
6 February 2020 | Christophe Jaffrelot
Indian Muslims, who represent less than 15% of the population but about 200 million people, have been recently affected by different measures. Repeal in August of Jammu and Kashmir’s constitutional autonomy, ruling by the Supreme Court in November authorizing the construction of the Ram Temple in...
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Air Pollution in India and China: Out of the Smog?
Cross interview between Mathieu Duchâtel and Christophe Jaffrelot
2 December 2019 | Mathieu Duchâtel | Christophe Jaffrelot
There were more than a 1000 micrograms of fine particles per cubic meter of air in 2013 in Beijing, more than 800 in early November in New Delhi. Given that WHO recommends a maximum of 10 micrograms as annual average concentration, the figures inevitably call for a response from the public...
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Demographic Dividend or Demographic Burden? India’s Education Challenge
13 September 2019 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Sanskruthi Kalyankar
"India’s demographic dividend began in the early 1980s and is expected to come to an end towards latter part of 2030s. India is, therefore, just beyond the midpoint of its dividend and this once in a life time opportunity for our nation is unlikely to last beyond another quarter of a century from...
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Indian Federalism Under Modi, from Theory to Practice
13 June 2019 | Christophe Jaffrelot | Sanskruthi Kalyankar
Indian citizens recently voted to reelect the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as results announced on May 22 reflected a majority of 303 out of the 542 seats for it. It was a big win for him, as his party won an even larger majority than in his landslide...
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India – Lessons from a Legislative Campaign
17 May 2019 | Christophe Jaffrelot
The election campaign that is coming to an end has been proportionate in length to the number of voting phases (seven, spread over the same number of weeks), which themselves depend on the size of the electorate: more than 900 million people (a good tenth of the world population) were called to the...
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7 lessons from the Indo-Pakistani crisis
8 March 2019 | Christophe Jaffrelot
A week after the air strikes that marked the peak of tensions between India and Pakistan, reconstructing the sequence of events is not an easy task since the available sources often contradict each other. It all began on February 14 when a 20-year-old suicide bomber, Adil Ahmad Dar, killed 40...
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Portrait of Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of India
21 November 2018 | Christophe Jaffrelot
The personalities our previous portraits explored were all from the Middle East. We are now entering a less familiar territory with the Indian Prime Minister, Mr Modi. In contrast to the personalities analysed previously the latter cannot be categorized as a dictator. However, Christophe Jaffrelot,...
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India Is Clearly Disadvantaged in the Region's New Arms Race
Three Questions to Christophe Jaffrelot
16 October 2018 | Christophe Jaffrelot
On Friday 5 October, during a bilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi finalized a $5 billion weapons deal with Russia to purchase the high-tech S-400 missile defense system. The deal could potentially expose India to American sanctions, according to...
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India on the Eve of Emmanuel Macron’s Visit
8 March 2018 | Institut Montaigne
On 9 March, Emmanuel Macron will travel to India for the first time since the beginning of his presidential term. There, he will meet Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of a country facing numerous challenges, but seemingly finding its way back to economic dynamism.  Which topics will be...
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