Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute (London), President of the French Political Science Association and Chair of the British Association for South Asian Studies. In 2023 he has been appointed co-director of the Sciences Po South Asia Program. He is also a Non Resident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Permanent Consultant at the Centre for Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among his recent publications are, The Pakistan Paradox. Instability and Resilience, London, Hurst; New York, Oxford University Press; New Delhi, Random House, 2015, (as a co-editor with A. Kohli and K. Murali) Business and Politics in India (New York, OUP, 2019) and (as a co-editor with A. Chatterji and T.B. Hansen) The Majoritarian State. How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (London Hurst, Delhi, HarperCollins, 2019), as co-author with Pratinav Anil, India’s First Dictatorship. The Emergency, 1975-77 (London, Hurst; New York, OUP; Delhi, HarperCollins, 2020) and as sole author Modi’s India. Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy (Princeton University Press and Bangalore, Westland, 2021) and Gujarat under Modi (London, Hurst; New York, OUP and Bangalore, Westland, 2024). He's currently part of three research projects on “Shared sacred sites in South Asia”, “Muslims in India” and “The Indian Media”.