By mapping the interconnections of social, political and economic elites across twelve chapters, Baru throws light on the restructuring of the power elite and its implications for India’s social and cultural landscape.īaru begins the first two chapters by analysing the cultural and ideological shifts brought out by the new power elite.
In India’s Power Elite, Sanjaya Baru sets out to describe change and continuity in the making and workings of India’s power elite, moving from the colonial period to the decades that have passed since independence.Īlong with a study of the changing balance of elite power, Baru also narrates the social and political transformations that have led to the decline of the Congress Party and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a ruling force. Over the last few decades, structural changes in Indian political and economic life have been incremental.
Since independence in 1947, there have been scholarly attempts to map the nature and character of India’s elites who have come to rule the polity, business and socio-cultural life. In order to understand the structure of inequalities and domination in India, we need an updated empirical account of the evolving nature of Indian power structures. India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution.
The book offers an engaging account of the changing nature of the Indian state and will be a worthwhile read for those seeking to learn about the contestations and contradictions within Indian power structures, writes Suraj Beri. In India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution, Sanjaya Baru explores change and continuity in the making and workings of India’s power elite, moving from the colonial period to the decades since independence.
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