Thinker
Yogendra Yadav
Yogendra Yadav is central to 7 previous-year questions, spanning 2010 to 2025 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
7Questions
2010–25Years tested
I & IIPaper
2Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Yogendra Yadav
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
circulation of elites 3identity politics 3vernacularisation of politics 3coalition politics 2representation 2vote bank 2accommodation of diversitybackward class mobilisationcriminalisation of politicsdeepening of democracydemocratic resiliencedemocratic upsurgedominant castedynastic politicsfederalisationfederalism and pluralismideological politicsmandal and mandir
Where Yogendra Yadav appears in the syllabus
Every question on Yogendra Yadav
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2022
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