Christophe Jaffrelot is Director of research at CERI-SciencesPo/CNRS, Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King’s College (London), Non Resident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and President of the French Political Science Association. He has just published with Pratinav Anil, “India’s First Dictatorship. The Emergency, 1975-77” and co-edited with A. Chatterji and T.B. Hansen, “Majoritarian State. How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India”.