Andrew Wyatt is Associate Professor in Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, U.K., and Editor of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (Taylor & Francis). He is the author of Party System Change in South India: Political Entreprenuers, Patterns and Processes (2010), co-author of Contemporary India (2010), and several articles on India’s political parties, leadership and populism, elections, democracy, and foreign policy. On India’s regional politics, he focuses on Tamil Nadu’s party politics, religion, and caste.