The Shah’s White Revolution of 1962 is appraised as a turning point in Iran’s long twentieth century. The speedy socio-economic transformation of the society brought a radical change in the modus operandi of governance and re-emergence of autocracy. These developments intensified the animosity of modern and also pre-modern classes and strata to the Shah’s autocracy whose rallying cry was: Down with the Shah.
An attempt is made to shed light on an array of political forces participating in the 1979 Revolution, a manifestation of, in the words of Ahmad Ashraf ,’’the under-development of Iranian Capitalism”.
