Rajeev Deshpande
The opposition hopes the Bihar caste survey will revive the Mandal debate but BJP’s Hindutva-plus model has changed the ground rules
The Opposition’s demand for a caste-based census is a desperate gambit to splinter Modi’s Hindu constituency
What Modi has done over time, especially by providing public goods that were earlier local in nature, is to greatly weaken the salience of caste-based politics