HomeAuthorsChristophe Jaffrelot Christophe Jaffrelot Senior Fellow - India, Democracy and Populism Senior FellowDr. 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. PublicationsExplainersFebruary 2025[Scenarios] - India: Facing New ChallengesDespite India's robust economic growth—8.4% in the last quarter of 2023—the economic relationship between Europe and India remains underwhelming. How can France and Europe fully capitalize on the "Indian moment" that is shaping the 21st century?ExplainersApril 2024National-Populist Surge in Europe: Implication for European Decision-MakingNoteDecember 2021The Europe-India Balance Sheet: Trade, Like-Mindedness and Strategic Interests07/05/2022Indian Military Dependence on Russia Christophe Jaffrelot Aadil Sud 06/07/2022Indian Debates on the War in Ukraine: All Roads Lead to a Consensus Christophe Jaffrelot 03/16/2022 Power Play: India’s Shifting Political Landscape Christophe Jaffrelot 11/30/2021 Farmers Versus Modi: Reaping the Seeds of Protest Christophe Jaffrelot 10/29/2021 India Between Solar Energy and Coal: From a “Green Image” to a “Green Façad... Christophe Jaffrelot Hemal Thakker 08/23/2021 South Asia and the Taliban: Ground Zero for a New Cold War? Christophe Jaffrelot 05/12/2021 India’s Covid-19 Crisis: Assessing the Political Impact Christophe Jaffrelot 04/27/2021 India’s Second Wave: A Man-Made Disaster? Christophe Jaffrelot 11/06/2020Indian Pharma: A Global Leader Under Pressure Christophe Jaffrelot Vihang Jumle Maitreyee Kishor 11/03/2020Private Healthcare in India: Boons and Banes Christophe Jaffrelot Vihang Jumle 11/02/2020 Public Health in India: Lessons of a Pandemic Christophe Jaffrelot Vihang Jumle 10/15/2020 Covid-19, Amplifying the Return of Mass Poverty in India Christophe Jaffrelot Hemal Thakker 08/27/2020 Emitters in the Spotlight - India: Great Capacities, Lesser Actions? Christophe Jaffrelot Hemal Thakker 06/23/2020 Escalation in the Himalayas - the Stakes for China and India Mathieu Duchâtel Christophe Jaffrelot 06/11/2020 From slowdown to lockdown, India’s economy and the Covid-19 shock Christophe Jaffrelot 03/31/2020 India in the Age of Coronavirus: a Global Time Bomb? Christophe Jaffrelot 02/06/2020 Citizenship Law in India, a Populist Polarization? Christophe Jaffrelot 12/02/2019 Air Pollution in India and China: Out of the Smog? Mathieu Duchâtel Christophe Jaffrelot 09/13/2019 Demographic Dividend or Demographic Burden? India’s Education Challenge Christophe Jaffrelot Sanskruthi Kalyankar 06/13/2019 Indian Federalism Under Modi, from Theory to Practice Christophe Jaffrelot Sanskruthi Kalyankar 05/17/2019 India – Lessons from a Legislative Campaign Christophe Jaffrelot 03/08/2019 7 lessons from the Indo-Pakistani crisis Christophe Jaffrelot 11/21/2018 Portrait of Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of India Christophe Jaffrelot 10/16/2018 India Is Clearly Disadvantaged in the Region's New Arms Race Christophe Jaffrelot