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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 26–61.
Published: 01 February 2000
... approach this general question here through a microlevel analysis of the performance of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), one such successor party, in relation to the Congress party at the local level. The BSP takes its name from the Hindi word Bahujan, which means the "majority of the people." Founded...
View articletitled, The Transformation of Ethnic Politics in India: The Decline of Congress and the Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Hoshiarpur
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Manuela Ciotti Abstract This article examines Dalit (ex-untouchable) and low-caste women activists within the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Underrepresented in Indian political history, these women frequently portray political activities as seva or social...
View articletitled, Resurrecting Seva (Social Service): Dalit and Low-caste Women Party Activists as Producers and Consumers of Political Culture and Practice in Urban North India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 February 2012
... strengths of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and explains how a party once based on Dalit (ex-Untouchable, or Scheduled Caste) support was able to cooperate with Brahmins. In these processes the mobile phone acted as a remarkable “force multiplier” to the existing BSP organization and helped party workers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1365–1396.
Published: 01 November 2008
... skeptical about the potential for Mayawati to transform people's lives. Chamars said that they voted for the BSP and that Mayawati's stints as chief minister in 1995 and 1997 had been of “some benefit,” for example, in ensuring that government officials arrived at work on time. But most Chamars argued...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 3–25.
Published: 01 February 2000
... are provisional. The explicitly lower-caste parties are: JD (various versions), RJD, SP, BSP, JP, ADMK, DMK, MDMK, PMK, BJD, and RPI. IS INDIA BECOMING MORE DEMOCRATIC? level of political parties notwithstanding, lower-caste politics has come to stay.4 It has pressed the polity in new policy directions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 February 2000
... Indian politics today, and their unfolding in contemporary North India can be advantageously compared with developments that occurred earlier in South India. K A N C H A N C H A N D R A tracks the rising fortunes of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in North India from its inception in the early 1980s to its...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 264–266.
Published: 01 February 2016
... the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), were catering to the interests of the poor there, among Dalits especially. Thachil's impeccable demonstration needs to be marginally qualified regarding a few points. First, the elite character of the Hindu nationalist parties has been mitigated for decades, before...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 86–108.
Published: 01 February 2000
... after severing his links with the Janata Dal in 1990 contested the 1993 state election in association with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), a Dalit-led party, and highlighted the cleavage between the upper castes and the lower castes. Its election manifesto promised a quota of 27 percent for the OBCs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 772–774.
Published: 01 August 2000
... denominationalism. This produced a new nexus of class and ethnoreligiously structured competition (culminating in Mandal-Mandir) that yielded new party formations (the SVD, the BKD, the SP, the BSP, the BJP, etc This changed the face of UP (and indeed national) politics. And it is only now that the tattered...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (5): 210–213.
Published: 01 September 1969
... Kyaw Aung. From social misfits to ster- ling citizens. Forward 7, no. 2 (Sept. 1, 1968), 12-15. 8320. Ne Win. General Ne Win speaks at the Third BSP Party seminar. Forward 7, no. 6 (Nov. 1, 1968), 6-9. 8321. General Ne Win's address [at the con- clusion of the Commanding Officers' Conference] For- ward...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1341–1364.
Published: 01 November 2008
...), and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have subsequently carried on the legacy of this movement. The SCF contested three elections in Punjab—one provincial election in 1946 and two general elections in 1952 and 1957. The RPI replaced the SCF. Like the SCF, it also failed to establish itself in the electoral field...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (5): 218–223.
Published: 01 September 1965
... (Spring E. F. D. Htaw Meh Pah (Father Boar's tusk). 1964), 50-65. tables. Guardian 11, no. 6 (June 1964), 29-30. (A SPECIFIC characteristics of BSP party. Forward story from the Karen) 3, no. 3 (Sept. 1964), 4-6. tables. MA Pyu: an Arakanese love story. Guardian 11, Tm HAN, if. Burma speaks at the Non...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 991–1011.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and BSP had an alliance.) Y's faction had the support of sixteen Zila Parishad members. They were sent to Goa for two weeks before the election to avoid the fact that Z intimidated or bribed them. Z was also supported by sixteen Zila Parishad members. He kept them secure (i.e., kidnapped...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 62–85.
Published: 01 February 2000
... Chandra (this volume) argues that the rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh is linked to the emergence of a class of government officers drawn from the ranks of the Scheduled Castes. Affirmative action has helped to pave the way to political empowerment. This paper offers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (5): 909–957.
Published: 01 September 1957
...., 739 Goriunova, V. D., 702 Gorman, R. S., 855 Gorshenin, K. P., 815 Gosset, P., 697, 717, 727 Gosset, R., 697 (Gosset, P 717 (Gosset, P 727 (Gosset, P.) Goswami, A., 904 Goswami, S. B., 886 Got6, K., 714 Goto, T., 808 Gough, E. K., 897 Gourou, P., 836 Gouvea, Bsp., 803 Govina Menon, K., 897 Gozenpud...
