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This article is about the changing voter in a changing India in the context of India's Lok Sabha election held in the year 2019. Positing a two-way relationship between social change and electoral politics, this article analyses the sources for the success of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in mobilizing massive support among various Hindu social groups. It examines the claims of the BJP leaders that the 2019 election has breached the barriers of caste and class. It takes the view that the social change over the decades after independence, especially after the 1990s, led to the emergence of a new elite composed of members from different social groups with shared values and social life willing to join hands for political purposes and that led to the massive victory of the BJP in the absence of any other viable alternative.

Operating in a highly stratified society the Indian state has been attempting to strike a balance between its commitment to an overarching conception of equality & the imperatives of compensatory discrimination, popularly known as reservations, in favor of historically depressed & socially backward sections of society. While electoral calculations & considerations of political power have become important for the ruling elites, social conflicts have been exacerbated among groups of beneficiaries, potential claimants, & those who perceive themselves to be the losers in the process. It is argued that a new national consensus has to be worked out in a democratic way to provide a rational basis for future reservation policy. Adapted from the source document.

The second of a four-volume survey and explorations in political science conducted by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, this volume examines key issues confronting Indian democracy and provides an analytical overview of the changing perceptions of it over the past two decades. It explores literature on the constitution and its institutions, the party system, elections, civil society initiatives, and federalism in India

This volume presents the picture of competitive politics in as many as 24 states of India. It addresses the issue of relationship between parliamentary election and assembly election as it evolved during 2008-2013. Making the best use of the National Election Study of 2009, the chapters in the book open before the reader the different patterns of party competition at the state level.