https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1379.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1379.html 2009-05-23T17:55:21Z text/html en Badri Narayan <p>The diminished importance of regional parties and the rise of the national parties in these elections is also a sign that smaller parties such as the BSP need to develop more aggressive electoral strategies. <br class='autobr' /> Dalits are usually taken to be a homogeneous category that includes all the Scheduled Castes, but the ground reality in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and other States in north India is that there is plenty of space for fragmentation because of the different (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique100.html" rel="directory">May 2009</a>