%0 Journal Article
%T Caste Politics in Bihar: In Historical Continuum
%A Rakesh Ankit
%J History and Sociology of South Asia
%@ 2249-5312
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2230807518767968
%X Abstract This article provides a long-term narrative of movements for social change in Bihar, precipitated by the steady rise to political power by the Backward Classes/Castes in the state, since 1989. Locating this moment in a longer momentum of struggle since the 1920s, it probes the antecedents of recent social change in Bihar politics. Contextualising this process within a long recessional, it traces a larger democratic cycle of empowerment going back to the early twentieth century. The article attempts the historicisation of Bihar politics by drawing upon a variety of sources¡ªfrom official records to newspapers¡ªand supplementing them with relevant secondary literature
%K Bihar
%K social movement
%K Lalu Prasad Yadav
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2230807518767968