Christophe Jaffrelot

Christophe Jaffrelot is a senior research fellow at Sciences Po (CERI) specializing in South Asian politics. With Sudipta Kaviraj of Columbia, he co-led an Alliance project on Indian conservatism, which seeks to understand India's conservative tradition in its own terms, its core principles and internal diversity, and how it has shaped Indian politics, even as economic change, eroding caste hierarchies and religious reform transform Indian society.