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Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs (2025)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (online). Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs. Forum for Development Studies, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2025.2528797

The 2024 election result in Uttar Pradesh (UP) was a shock for the BJP. The party had expected to increase its vote share significantly but instead, its support fell, and it was beaten by the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Congress alliance when it came to par... Read More about Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs.

Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India (2023)
Book Chapter
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2023). Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India. In I. Roy (Ed.), Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026

At the 2019 general election in India, the BJP succeeded in gaining more of the Dalit, Adivasi and OBC vote. This chapter highlights the everyday politics of social oppression and exploitation faced by Dalits and Adivasis in India. India is a society... Read More about Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India.

The Political Economy of Decentralisation in Indonesia (2023)
Thesis
Whiston, B. The Political Economy of Decentralisation in Indonesia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines how decentralisation and pemekaran (a process of administrative fragmentation triggered by decentralisation) have impacted upon local elites’ and poorer social groups’ accumulation and livelihoods strategies in Indonesia. The res... Read More about The Political Economy of Decentralisation in Indonesia.

Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati (2022)
Thesis
Menon, R. Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and residual Andhra in 2014, the ruling TDP government announced plans to build an ambitious new capital city, christened Amaravati, on the southern banks of the Krishna River in Guntur district.... Read More about Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati.

The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2021). The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(7), 1380-1396. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1986013

The article analyses the farm laws struggle in India which, at the time of writing (September 2021), has lasted more than a year. It aims to explain its unusually broad support base and to discuss the potential wider impact of the new social coalitio... Read More about The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India.

Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour (2021)
Journal Article
Pattenden, J., Campling, L., Castañón Ballivián, E., Gras, C., Lerche, J., O'Laughlin, B., Oya, C., Pérez Niño, H., & Sinha, S. (2021). Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21(3), 582-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12440

Covid-19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores prelimi... Read More about Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour.