الهوامش
الجزء الخامس: سجلُّ الوقائع
الفصل السادس والعشرون: الحقوق وأعمال الشغب
(1)
M. N. Srinivas, Caste in Modern
India and Other Essays (Bombay: Asia Publishing
House, 1962).
(2)
The political assertion of the
backward castes through the 1960s and 70s is
usefully described in Christophe Jaffrelot,
India’s Silent
Revolution: The Rise of the Low Castes in
North Indian Politics (Delhi:
Permanent Black, 2003). See also D. L. Sheth,
‘Secularisation of Caste and Making of New
Middle Class,’ Economic
and Political Weekly, 21–28
August 1999.
(3)
Report of the Backward
Classes Commission (Delhi: Controller of
Publications, 1980), Volume I, p.
57.
(4)
Sanjay Ruparelia, Divided We Govern: Coalition
Politics in Modern India (New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015), p.
117f.
(5)
André Béteille, ‘Distributive
Justice and Institutional Wellbeing,’ Economic and Political
Weekly, Special Number, March
1991; Dharma Kumar, ‘The Affirmative Action
Debate in India,’ Asian
Survey, volume 32, number 3,
March 1992; Norio Kondo, ‘The Backward Classes
Movement and Reservation in Tamil Nadu and Uttar
Pradesh: A Comparative Perspective,’ in Mushirul
Hasan and Nariaki Nakazato, eds, The Unfinished Agenda:
Nation-Building in South Asia
(Delhi: Manohar, 2001).
(6)
Jaffrelot, India’s Silent Revolution,
pp. 345–7.
(7)
See Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and
Shankar Raghuraman, A
Time of Coalitions: Divided We
Stand (New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2004).
(8)
Richard H. Davis, ‘The Iconography
of Rama’s Chariot’ in David Ludden, ed.,
Making India Hindu:
Religion, Community, and the Politics of
Democracy in India (second
edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
1996).
(9)
Ibid, p. 46.
(10)
Jaffrelot, Hindu Nationalist Movement,
pp. 420–2.
(11)
See Paul Brass, The Production of Hindu-Muslim
Violence in Contemporary India
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003),
pp. 110–23.
(12)
See Katju, Vishva Hindu Parishad, p.
65.
(13)
See, for more details, S. Guhan,
The Cauvery River
Dispute: Towards Conciliation
(Chennai: Frontline,
1993).
(14)
As this book goes to press, the
dispute over the Cauvery waters has intensified
once more. The Supreme Court ordered that
Karnataka release 15,000 cusecs of water each
day to meet the demands of the summer crop in
Tamil Nadu. Protests erupted in the southern
districts of Karnataka, with strikes and bandhs
in several towns, including the state capital,
Bengaluru. Reports in Times of India (Bengaluru
edition), 7 September
2016.
(15)
India
Today, 31 December
1999.
(16)
Manoj Joshi, The Lost Rebellion: Kashmir in
the Nineties (New Delhi: Penguin
Books, 1999), Chapters 1 and 2. Cf. also Tavleen
Singh, Kashmir: A
Tragedy of Errors (New Delhi:
Viking, 1995).
(17)
Smita Gupta, ‘The Rise and Rise of
Terrorism in Kashmir,’ The Telegraph, 21 April
1990.
(18)
Schofield, Kashmir in Conflict, p.
147.
(19)
These headlines are
taken from various news reports filed in the Centre for
Education and Documentation,
Bangalore.
(20)
The
Telegraph, 27 May 1990; Joshi,
The Lost
Rebellion,
pp. 72-3.
(21)
See ‘Urgent Action’ reports of
Amnesty International, numbers UA 102 and 108 of
1991, copies in the files of the Centre for
Education and Documentation,
Bangalore.
(22)
V. M. Tarkunde et al.
‘Report on Kashmir Situation,’ in Asghar
Ali Engineer, ed., Secular Crown on Fire: The
Kashmir Problem (Delhi:
Ajanta Publications),
pp. 210–23.
(23)
This paragraph draws upon, among
other works, M. K. A. Siddiqui, Muslims in Free India: Their
Social Profile and Problems (New
Delhi: Institute of Objective Studies, 1998);
Abusaleh Shariff, ‘On the Margins: Muslims in a
State of Socio-Economic Decline,’ The Times of India,
22 October 2004; Yogendra Sikand, ‘Lessons of
the Past: Madrasa Education in South Asia,’
Himal,
volume 14, number 11, November 2001; idem, ‘Countering
Fundamentalism: The Ban on SIMI,’ Economic and Political
Weekly, 6 October 2001; Arjumand
Ara, ‘Madrasas and Making of Muslim Identity in
India,’ Economic and
Political Weekly, 3 January
2004.
(24)
Navnita Chadha Behera, State, Identity and Violence:
Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh (New
Delhi: Manohar, 2000), p.
179.
(25)
Sonia Jabbar, ‘Spirit of
Place,’ in Civil
Lines 5: New Writing from
India (New Delhi: IndiaInk,
2001), pp. 28-9. See also the vivid
eye-witness account of a young Pandit
who had to flee the valley with his
family – Rahul Pandita, Our Moon Has Blood Clots:
The Exodus of the Kashmiri
Pandits (New Delhi: Random
House India,
2013).
(26)
Cf. reports in The Telegraph, 1
April 1990; in Frontline, 14–27 April 1990; in
The Illustrated
Weekly of India, 17 June 1990; in
the Times of
India, 11 February 1991. See also
Alexander Evans, ‘‘A Departure from History:
Kashmiri Pandits, 1990–2001,’ Contemporary South
Asia, volume 11, number 1,
2002.
(27)
Cf. Praveen Swami, ‘The Nadimarg
Outrage,’ Frontline, 25 April
2003.
(28)
Vinay Sitapati, Half Lion: How P. V. Narasimha
Rao Transformed India (New Delhi:
Penguin, 2015), Chapters 6 and
7.
(29)
Anne O. Krueger and Sajjid Chinoy,
‘The Indian Economy in Global Context,’ in Anne
O. Krueger, ed., Economic Policy Reforms and the Indian
Economy (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2002). For an overview of the
Indian economy on the eve of the reforms, see
Bimal Jalan, ed., The
Indian Economy: Problems and
Prospects (New Delhi: Viking,
1992).
(30)
See Jairam Ramesh, To the Brink and Back: India’s
1991 Story (New Delhi: Rupa,
2015), pp. 35–7, 144-5,
184.
(31)
Arvind Panagriya, ‘Growth and
Reforms during 1980s and 1990s,’ Economic and Political
Weekly, 19 June
2004.
(32)
Ashok V. Desai, My Economic Affair
(New Delhi: Wiley Eastern, 1993); Kaushik Basu,
‘Future Perfect?,’ Hindustan Times, 5 May
2005.
(33)
See
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/manmohan-singh-opening-indian-economy-1991-economic-reforms-pv-narasimha-rao-rbi-indian-rupee-devaluation-2886876/
(accessed 1 July 2016).
(34)
See Dani Rodrik and Arvind
Subramanian, From ‘Hindu Growth’ to Productivity Surge: The
Mystery of the Indian Growth
Transition, National Bureau of
Applied Economic Research, Washington, March
2004.
(35)
Dennis J. Encarnation, Dislodging Multinationals:
India’s Strategy in Comparative
Perspective (Ithaca, N. Y.:
Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 214-5,
225.
(36)
Surendra Malik, compiler,
Supreme Court Mandal Commission Case,
1992 (Lucknow: Eastern Book Company,
1992), pp. 180, 196, 379, 387, 412, 424,
etc.
(37)
Madhav Godbole, Unfinished Innings:
Recollections and Reflections of a Civil
Servant (Hyderabad: Orient
Longman, 1996),
pp. 344–53.
(38)
See P. V. Narasimha Rao, Ayodhya: 6 December
1992 (New Delhi: Viking, 2006),
pp. 99-100.
(39)
Godbole, Unfinished Innings, p.
363.
(40)
Quoted in Sunday, 6–12 December
1992.
(41)
This account of the demolition of
the Babri Masjid is based, in the main, on Dilip
Awasthi, ‘‘A Nation’s Shame,’ India Today, 31
December 1992. But see also Harinder Baweja,
‘Today, 10 Years Ago: What Really Happened,’
The Asian
Age, 6 December
2002.
(42)
The conversation was reported in
Sunday,
13–19 December 1992.
(43)
K. R. Malkani, The Politics of Ayodhya and
Hindu-Muslim Relations (New
Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 1993),
pp. 3-4.
(44)
Quoted in Venkitesh Ramakrishnan,
‘The Wrecking Crew,’ Frontline, 1 January
1993.
(45)
Arun Shourie, ‘The Buckling State,’
in Jitendra Bajaj, ed., Ayodhya and the Future India
(Madras: Centre for Policy Studies, 1993),
pp. 47–70.
(46)
Francine R. Frankel, India’s Political
Economy, 1947–2004: The Gradual
Revolution (second edition, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2005),
pp. 714-5.
(47)
See ‘Bloody Aftermath,’ India Today, 31
December 1992.
(48)
Clarence Fernandez and Naresh
Fernandes, ‘The Winter of Discontent,’ in Dileep
Padgaonkar, ed., When
Bombay Burned (New Delhi: UBSPD,
1993), pp. 12–41.
(49)
Kalpana Sharma, ‘Chronicle of a
Riot Foretold,’ in Sujata Patel and Alice
Thorner, Bombay:
Metaphor for Modern India (Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1999), p.
277.
(50)
Translated from the Marathi
and quoted in Purandare, The Sena Story,
p. 369.
(51)
Clarence Fernandez and Naresh
Fernandes, ‘‘A City at War with Itself ,’ in
Padgaonkar, ed., When
Bombay Burned, pp. 42–104;
Sharma, ‘Chronicle,’
pp. 278–86.
(52)
‘Bombay Has Lost Its Character,’
The Afternoon
Dispatch and Courier, 10 January
1993, reprinted in ‘Busybee,’ When Bombay was Bombed: Best
of 1992-3 (Bombay: Oriana Books,
2004).
(53)
Frontline, 1 January 1993;
Sunday, 13–19 December 1992; India Today, 31
December 1992.
(54)
Michael S. Serrill, ‘India: The
Holy War,’ Time, 21 December
1992.
(55)
The
Times, 7 and 8 December
1992.
(56)
Geoffrey Morehouse, ‘Chronicle of a
Death Foretold,’ The
Guardian, 10 March
2001.
(57)
Paul R. Brass, The Politics of India Since
Independence (second edition,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994),
pp. 353-4, 365-6, 348-9.
الفصل السابع والعشرون: نظام سياسي متعدد الأقطاب
(1)
‘In Search of the Messiah,’
Sunday,
31 August–6 September
1988.
(2)
Jaffrelot, India’s Silent Revolution,
Chapter 11.
(3)
Cf. Ghanshyam Shah, ed., Dalits and the
State (New Delhi: Concept
Publishing Company,
2002).
(4)
For more on Kanshi Ram and the rise
of the BSP, see Sudha Pai, Dalit Assertion and the
Unfinished Democratic Revolution: The
Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar
Pradesh (New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2002); Badri Narayan, Kanshiram: Leader of the
Dalits (Gurgaon: Penguin India,
2014); Kanchan Chandra, Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and
Ethnic Head Counts in India
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004).
(5)
Badri Narayan, ‘Heroes, Histories
and Booklets,’ EPW, 13 October
2001.
(6)
James Cameron, An Indian Summer
(London: Macmillan, 1974),
p. 122.
(7)
André Béteille, ‘The Scheduled
Castes: An Inter-Regional Perspective,’
Journal of Indian
School of Political Economy,
volume 12, numbers 3 and 4,
2000.
(8)
Hugo Gorringe, Untouchable Citizens: Dalit
Movements and
Democratisation
in Tamil Nadu (New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2005), p.
112.
(9)
The posthumous political importance
of Ambedkar awaits a serious scholarly analysis.
For clues to how important he is to the Dalit
consciousness see, among other works: Chandra
Bhan Prasad, Dalit
Diary: 1999–2003 (Chennai:
Navayana Publishing, 2004); Fernando Franco,
Jyotsna Macwan, and Suguna Ramanathan, Journeys to Freedom: Dalit
Narratives (Kolkata; Samya,
2004); and the ‘Margin Speak’ column in the
EPW
written by the Ambedkarite intellectual Anand
Teltumbde.
(10)
See V. Jayanth, ‘Narasimha Rao and
the Look East Policy,’
http://www.thehindu.com/2004/12/24/stories/2004122407541200.htm
(accessed 1 July 2016).
(11)
See Sitapati, Half Lion, Chapter
13.
(12)
See D. Bandyopadhyay, Saila K.
Ghosh and Buddhadeb Ghosh, ‘Dependency versus
Autonomy: Identity Crisis of India’s
Panchayats,’ EPW, 20 September
2003.
(13)
For details, see Mahi Pal,
‘Panchayati Raj and Rural Governance:
Experiences of a Decade,’ EPW, 10 January
2004.
(14)
See T. M. Thomas Isaac and Richard
W. Franke, Local
Democracy and Development: People’s Campaign
for Decentralized Planning in
Kerala (New Delhi: LeftWord
Books, 2000); Jos Chathukulam and M. S. John,
‘Five Years of Participatory Government in
Kerala: Rhetoric and Reality,’ EPW, 7 December
2002.
(15)
Rashmi Sharma, ‘Kerala’s
Decentralisation: Idea in Practice,’ EPW, 6 September
2003; Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee,
‘Poverty Alleviation Efforts of Panchayats in
West Bengal,’ EPW, 28 February 2004; Arild
Engelsen Ruud, Poetics
of Village Politics: The Making of West
Bengal’s Rural Communism (New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003); Nirmal
Mukherji and D. Bandopadhyay, ‘New Horizons for
West Bengal Panchayats,’ in Amitava Mukherjee,
ed., Decentralization:
Panchayats in the Nineties (New
Delhi: Vikas Publishing House,
1994).
(16)
There is a growing academic
literature on these questions. See, inter alia,
the essays by Niraja Gopal Jayal, Bishnu N.
Mohapatra and Sudha Pai in the ‘Democracy and
Social Capital’ special issue of EPW, 24 February
2001; S. Sumathi and V. Sudarsen, ‘What Does the
New Panchayat System Guarantee: A Case Study of
Pappapatti,’ EPW, 20 August
2005.
(17)
Cf. M. P. Singh and Rekha Saxena,
India at the Polls:
Parliamentary Elections in the Federal
Phase (Hyderabad: Orient Longman,
2003).
(18)
See Rasheed Kidwai, Sonia: A Biography
(New Delhi: Viking Penguin,
2003).
(19)
Mehta, The
Political Mind of India (Bombay:
Socialist Party, 1952), p.
38.
(20)
Taya and Maurice Zinkin, ‘The
Indian General Elections,’ The World Today,
volume 8, number 5, May
1952.
(21)
Susanne Hoeber and Lloyd I.
Rudolph, ‘The Centrist Future of Indian
Politics,’ Asian
Survey, volume 20, number 6, June
1980.
(22)
Quoted in Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise: Gurus and
the Hindu Nationalist Movement
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1996), p. 315.
(23)
Cf. the evidence and testimonies in
Peter Gottshcalk, Beyond
Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identities in
Narratives from Village India
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
2001).
(24)
Khadar Mohiuddin, ‘Birthmark,’ in
Velcheru Narayana Rao, ed. and tr., Twentieth Century Telugu
Poetry: An Anthology (New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2002),
pp. 221–7.
(25)
D. R. Goyal, Rashtriya Swayamsewak
Sangh (second edition, New
Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan, 2000),
pp. 17-8. For a fuller exposition of
this ideology, and from the horse’s
mouth as it were, see M. S. Golwalkar,
Bunch of
Thoughts (Bangalore: Vikrama
Prakashan, 1966).
(26)
On the growth of the RSS since
1947, see, among other works, Tapan Basu et.
al., Khaki Shorts and
Saffron Flags: A Critique of the Hindu
Right (Hyderabad: Orient Longman,
1993); Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave: Democracy
and Hindu Nationalism in India
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999);
Pralay Kanungo, ‘Hindutva’s Entry into a “Hindu
Province”: Early Years of RSS in Orissa,’
EPW, 2
August 2003; Nandini Sundar, ‘Teaching to Hate:
RSS’ Pedagogical Programme,’ EPW, 17 April
2004.
(27)
Gowalkar, ‘Total Prohibition of
Cow-Slaughter,’ The
Hitavada, 26 October
1952,
(28)
Cf. Thomas Blom Hansen, Urban Violence in India:
Identity Politics, ‘Mumbai,’ and the
Postcolonial City (Delhi:
Permanent Black, 2001), p.
85.
(29)
Neerja Chowdhury, ‘Sonia Takes a
Political Dip at the Kumbh,’ The New Indian
Express, 20 January
2001.
(30)
On this last incident, see
The
Telegraph, 25 January
1999.
(31)
On the latter question, see P. N.
Mari Bhatt and A. J. Francis Zavier, ‘Role of
Religion in Fertility Decline: The Case of
Indian Muslims,’ EPW, 29 January
2005.
(32)
This paragraph is based on Hasan
Abbas, Pakistan’s Drift
into Extremism: Allah, the Army, and
America’s War on Terror (Armonk,
N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2005), Chapters 9 and 10.
The Tariq Ali quote comes from his The Clash of Fundamentalisms:
Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity
(London: Verso, 2002), p.
196.
(33)
Yoginder Sikand, ‘Changing Course
of Kashmiri Struggle: From National Liberation
to Islamist Jihad,’ EPW, 20 January
2001.
(34)
Pamela Constable, ‘Selective
Truths,’ in Guns and
Roses: Essays on the Kargil War
(New Delhi: HarperCollins India, 1999), p. 52;
Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, interviewed by Amir Mir in
Outlook,
23 July 2001.
(35)
Cf. Anil Nauriya, ‘The Destruction
of a Historic Party,’ Mainstream, 17 August 2002;
Praveen Swami, ‘The Killing of Lone,’ Frontline, 21 June
2002.
(36)
Cf. news report in the Times of India, 24
January 1990; Joshua Hammer, ‘Srinagar
Dispatch,’ The New
Republic, 12 November
2001.
(37)
Reeta Chowdhuri-Tremblay,
‘Differing Responses to the Parliamentary and
Assembly Elections in Kashmir’s Regions, and
State-Societal Relations,’ in Paul Wallace and
Ramashray Roy, ed., India’s 1999 Elections and 20th Century
Politics (New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2003).
(38)
Prabhu Ghate, ‘Kashmir: The Dirty
War,’ EPW, 26
January 2002.
(39)
Jaleel, ‘I Have Seen my Country
Die,’ The
Telegraph, 26 May
2002.
(40)
Buchan, ‘Kashmir,’
Granta, number 57, Spring
1997, p. 66.
(41)
Chandana Bhattacharjee, Ethnicity and Autonomy
Movement: Case of Bodo-Kacharis of
Assam (New Delhi: Vikas
Publishing House, 1996); Sudhir Jacob George,
‘The Bodo Movement in Assam: Unrest to Accord,’
Asian
Survey, volume 34, number 10,
October 1994.
(42)
Sanjoy Hazarika, Strangers of the Night: Tales
of War and Peace from India’s
Northeast (New Delhi: Penguin
Books, 1995), pp. 167–226. Cf. also Sanjib
Baruah, ‘The State and Separatist Militancy in
Assam: Winning a Battle and Losing the War?,’
Asian
Survey, volume 34, number 10,
October 1994.
(43)
Anindita Dasgupta, ‘Tripura’s
Brutal Cul de Sac,’ Himal, December
2001.
(44)
Bhagat Oinam, ‘Patterns of Ethnic
Conflict in the North-East: A Study on Manipur,’
EPW, 24
May 2003; U. A. Shimray, ‘Socio-Political Unrest
in the Region Called North-East India,’
EPW, 16
October 2004.
(45)
Anon., ‘‘A Blueprint for Mizoram,’
Grassroots
Options, Monsoon 1999; Sudipta
Bhattacharjee, ‘How to be Thirteenth Time
Lucky,’ The
Telegraph, 30 June 1999; Nitin
Gokhale, ‘Meghna Naidu in Aizawl,’ Tehelka, 9 October
2004.
(46)
Sarabjit Singh, Operation Black Thunder: An
Eyewitness Account of Terrorism in
Punjab (New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2002), especially Chapters 22
through 30.
(47)
Cf. Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee,
‘Strains on Punjab Governance: An Assessment of
the Badal Government (1997–1999),’ International Journal of
Punjab Studies, volume 7, number
1, 2000.
(48)
See ‘The Dynamic Sikhs,’ cover
story in Outlook, 29 March
1999.
(49)
Singh, Operation Black Thunder, p.
338.
(50)
Robin Jeffrey, ‘“No Party
Dominant”: India’s New Political System,’
Himal,
March 2002, p. 41.
الفصل الثامن والعشرون: الحكام والحقوق
(1)
See E. Sridharan, ‘Coalition
Strategies and the BJP’s Expansion, 1989–2004,’
Commonwealth and
Comparative Politics, volume 43,
number 2, 2005.
(2)
Cf. the critique of Nehru’s views
in Jaswant Singh, Defending India (Bangalore:
Macmillan India, 1999), pp. 29, 39, 42-3, 57-8,
etc.
(3)
Stephen P. Cohen, India: Emerging
Power (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2001),
pp. 144-5.
(4)
Anupam Srivastava, ‘India’s Growing
Missile Ambitions: Assessing the Technical and
Strategic Dimensions,’ Asian Survey, volume 40, number
2, 2000.
(5)
Perkovich, India’s Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global
Proliferation (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999),
pp. 364–76.
(6)
Ibid., p.
412.
(7)
Quoted in Raj Chengappa, Weapons of Peace: The Secret
Story of India’s Quest to be a Nuclear
Power (New Delhi: HarperCollins
India, 2000), pp. 51-2.
(8)
See Paul R. Dettman, India Changes Course: Golden
Jubilee to Millenium (Westport,
Conn.: Praeger, 2001), p.
41f.
(9)
Interview in Newsline (Karachi),
June 1998.
(10)
Bhumitra Chakma, ‘Toward Pokharan
II: Explaining India’s Nuclearisation Process,’
Modern Asian
Studies, volume 39, number 1,
2005.
(11)
For the links between the 1998
tests and India’s wider ambitions, see Hilary
Synnott, The Causes and
Consequences of South Asia’s Nuclear
Tests, Adelphi Paper 332 (London:
The International Institute for Strategic
Studies, 1999); Ashok Kapur, Pokharan and Beyond: India’s
Nuclear Behaviour (New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2001). The arguments of
the critics of India’s nuclear ambitions are
collected in M. V. Ramanna and C. Rammanohar
Reddy, eds, Prisoners of
the Nuclear Dream (Hyderabad:
Orient Longman, 2003).
(12)
Cf. cover story in India Today, 1
March 1999.
(13)
On why and how Pakistan planned the
Kargil operation, see Abbas, Pakistan’s Drift into
Extremism, pp. 169–74; Owen
Bennett Jones, Pakistan:
Eye of the Storm (New Delhi:
Viking, 2002), pp. 87ff; Aijaz Ahmad, ‘The Many
Roads to Kargil,’ Frontline, 16 July
1999.
(14)
Praveen Swami, The Kargil War
(revised edition, New Delhi: LeftWord Books,
2000), pp. 10–1.
(15)
Rahul Bedi, ‘‘A Dismal Failure,’ in
Guns and Roses:
Essays on the Kargil War (New
Delhi: HarperCollins India, 1999), p.
142.
(16)
The course of the Kargil war is
described in the works cited in footnotes 30 and
31 above, and in Srinjoy Chowdhury, Despatches from
Kargil (New Delhi: Penguin Books,
2000).
(17)
Abbas, Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism,
p. 174; interview with Nawaz Sharif in India Today, 26
July 2004.
(18)
Cf. news reports in The Asian Age, 4
July 1999; The
Telegraph, 9 July 1999; The Hindu, 19 July
1999.
(19)
The Asian
Age, 6 July 1999; The Hindu, 4 July
1999
(20)
Sarabjit Pandher, ‘Spirit of
Nationalism Eclipses Memories of [Operation]
Bluestar,’ The
Hindu, 16 June
1999.
(21)
‘‘Army Job Seekers Go Berserk,’
The
Hindu, 18 July
1999.
(22)
See Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, ‘‘A
Debate without Direction,’ Frontline, 12–25
September 1998.
(23)
Nagesh Kumar, ‘Indian Software
Industry Development: International and National
Perspective,’ EPW, 10 November 2001; Pradosh
Nath and Amitava Hazra, ‘Configuration of Indian
Software Industry,’ EPW, 23 February 2002; Arun
Shourie, ‘Ensuring IT remains Indian Territory,’
The New Indian
Express, 3 January
2004.
(24)
AnnaLee Saxenian, ‘Bangalore: The
Silicon Valley of Asia?,’ in Krueger, ed.,
Economic Policy
Reforms, p.
175.
(25)
See, for more details, Dinesh C.
Sharma, The Long
Revolution: The Birth and Growth of India’s
IT Industry (New Delhi:
HarperCollins India
2009).
(26)
Raj Chengappa and Malini Goyal,
‘Housekeepers to the World,’ India Today, 18
November 2002; ‘Outsourcing to India,’ The Economist, 5
May 2001.
(27)
Saritha Rai, ‘Prayers Outsourced to
India’; idem, ‘US Kids Outsource Homework to
India,’ both originally published in The New York Times,
reprinted in The Asian
Age, 14 June 2004 and 11
September 2005,
respectively.
(28)
Shankkar Aiyar, ‘Made in India,’
India
Today, 1 December
2003.
(29)
R. Nagaraj, ‘Foreign Direct
Investment in India in the 1990s: Trends and
Issues,’ EPW,
26 April 2003.
(30)
Arvind Virmani, ‘India’s External
Reforms: Modest Globalisation, Significant
Gains,’ EPW,
9 August 2003.
(31)
See Harish Damodaran, India’s New Capitalists:
Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern
Nation (London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008).
(32)
E. Sridharan, ‘The Growth and
Sectoral Composition of India’s Middle Class:
Its Impact on the Politics of Economic
Liberalization,’ India
Review, volume 3, number 4,
2004.
(33)
Surinder S. Jodhka and Aseem
Prakash, The Indian
Middle Class (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2016).
(34)
Devesh Kapur, ‘The Middle-Class in
India: A Social Formation or a Political
Actor?,’ Political Power
and Social Theory, volume 21,
2010.
(35)
Cf. William Mazzarella, Shovelling Smoke: Advertising
and Globalization in Contemporary
India (Durham, N. C.: Duke
University Press, 2003), pp. 74–6, 240, 258,
etc.
(36)
Filippo Osella and Caroline
Osella, Social
Mobility in Kerala: Modernity and
Identity in Conflict (London:
Pluto Press, 2000), p.
127.
(37)
See, among other works, the special
issue on ‘Poverty Reduction in [the] 1990s,’ of
the EPW,
dated 25–31 January 2003; K. Sundaram and Suresh
D. Tendulkar, ‘Poverty in India in the 1990s: An
Analysis of Changes in 15 Major States,’
EPW, 5
April 2003; Angus Deaton, ed., The Great Indian Poverty
Debate (New Delhi: Macmillan
India, 2005).
(38)
The words of the novelist Eduardo
Galeano, writing of the Latin American city,
which in these respects is wholly of a piece
with its Indian counterpart. Galeano, ‘The Other
Wall,’ The New
Internationalist, November
1989.
(39)
Cf. special issue on ‘Footloose
Labour,’ Seminar, November 2003; Supriya
RoyChowdhury, ‘Labour Activism and Women in the
Unorganised Sector: Garment Export Industry in
Bangalore,’ EPW, 28 May-4 June 2005; and,
for a more general overview, Ajit K. Ghose, ‘The
Employment Challenge in India,’ EPW, 27 November
2004.
(40)
P. K. Joshi, Ashok Gulati, Pratap
S. Birthal, and Laxmi Tewari, ‘Agriculture
Diversification in South Asia: Patterns,
Determinants and Policy Implications,’ EPW, 12 June 2004;
M. S. Sidhu, ‘Fruit and Vegetable Processing
Industry in India: An Appraisal of the
Post-Reform Period,’ EPW, 9 July
2005.
(41)
Ramesh Chand, ‘Whithern India’s
Food Policy: From Food Security to Food
Deprivation,’ EPW, 12 March 2005; Jean Dréze,
‘Praying for Food Security,’ The Hindu, 27
October 2003; Madhura Swaminathan, Weakening Welfare: The Public
Distribution of Food in India
(New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2000); Ashok Gulati,
Satu Kåhkonen and Pradeep Sharma, ‘The Food
Corporation of India: Successes and Failures in
Foodgrain Marketing,’ in Satu Kåhkonen and
Anthony Lanyi, eds, Institutions, Incentives and Economic
Reforms in India (New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2000); and, especially, P.
Sainath, Everybody Loves
a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest
Districts (New Delhi: Penguin
Books India, 1996).
(42)
P. Sainath, ‘Trains Raided for
Water in TN,’ The Times
of India, 14 May 1993; Sowmya
Sivakumar and Eric Kerbart, ‘Drought, Sustenance
and Livelihoods: “Akal” Survey in Rajasthan,’
EPW, 17
January 2004.
(43)
Cf. Verrier Elwin, Maria Murder and
Suicide (Bombay: Oxford
University Press, 1943).
(44)
Farmers’ suicides were the subject
of a remarkable series of field reports
published by P. Sainath in The Hindu, too
numerous to list individually, but easily
tracked down on
www.thehinduonnet.com Cf.
also R. S. Deshpande and Nagesh Prabhu,
‘Farmers’ Distress: Proof Beyond Question,’
EPW, 29
October 2005; Tehelka, special issue on the
farming crisis, 6 March
2004.
(45)
Cf. Myron Weiner, The Child and the State in
India (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1990).
(46)
Jean Dréze and Aparajita Goyal,
‘Future of Mid-Day Meals,’ EPW, 1 November
2003.
(47)
Sucheta Mahajan, ‘MVF India
Education as Empowerment,’ Mainstream, 16
August 2003; Rukmini Banerji, ‘Pratham
Experiences,’ Seminar, February
2005.
(48)
See ‘The PROBE Team,’ Public Report on Basic
Education in India (New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1999), Chapter
9.
(49)
Ramachandran, ‘The Best of Times,
the Worst of Times,’ Seminar, April
2004.
(50)
Subhadra Menon, No Place to Go: Stories of
Hope and Despair from India’s Ailing Health
Sector (New Delhi; Penguin Books,
2004).
(51)
Pamela Philipose, ‘India is
Seriously Sick,’ The New
Indian Express, 24 January
2006.
(52)
Peoples Union for Democratic
Rights, Satpura ki
Ghati: People’s Struggle in
Hoshangabad (New Delhi: PUDR,
1992).
(53)
Walter Fernandes,
‘Development-induced Displacement and Tribal
Women,’ in Govind Chandra Rath, ed., Tribal Development in India:
The Contemporary Debate (New
Delhi: Sage Publications,
2006).
(54)
Arup Maharatna, Demographic Perspectives on
India’s Tribes (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2005), Chapter 2 and
passim.
(55)
Cf. Rahul, ‘The Bhils: A People
Under Threat,’ Humanscape, volume 8, number 8,
September 2001; various issues of Budhan: The Denotified and
Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group
Newsletter.
(56)
Cf. Amita Baviskar, In the Belly of the River:
Adivasi Battles over ‘Development’ in the
Narmada Valley (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1995); Jean Dreze, Meera
Samson, and Satyajit Singh, eds, The Dam and the
Nation (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1998).
(57)
Arjan De Haan and Amaresh Dubey,
‘Poverty, Disparities, or the Development of
Underdevelopment in Orissa,’ EPW, 28 May–4 June
2005; Sanjay Kumar, ‘Adivasis of South Orissa:
Enduring Poverty,’ EPW, 27 October 2001; Jean
Dréze, ‘No More Lifelines: Political Economy of
Hunger in Orissa,’ The
Times of India, 17 September
2001.
(58)
Meena Menon, ‘The Battle for
Bauxite in Orissa,’ The
Hindu, 20 April
2005.
(59)
Anon., The
Struggle Against Bauxite Mining in
Orissa (Bangalore: Peoples Union
for Civil Liberties, 2003); Anon., How Wrong? How
Right? (Kashipur: Agragamee,
1999).
(60)
Quoted in Manash Ghosh, ‘Sins of
Development,’ The
Statesman, 9 March
1999.
(61)
Darryl D’Monte, ‘Another Look at
“Backwardness”,’ Lokmat
Times, 13 October 2000; idem,
‘Recent Memories of Underdevelopment,’ posted on
www.tehelka.com, 12 October
2000.
(62)
The
Struggle Against Bauxite Mining,
pp. 15-16; reports in The Indian Express, 18 and 19
December 2000.
(63)
Montek S. Ahluwalia, ‘Economic
Reform of States in Post-Reform Period,’
EPW, 6
May 2000; S. Mahendra Dev, ‘Post-Reform Regional
Variations,’ Seminar, May
2004.
(64)
Cf. K. P. Kannan, ‘Shining
Socio-Spatial Disparities,’ Seminar, May 2004;
Jean Dréze, ‘Where Welfare Works: Plus Points of
the T[amil] N[adu] Model,’ The Times of India,
21 May 2003.
(65)
Angus Deaton and Jean Dréze,
‘Poverty and Inequality in India:
A Re-Examination,’ EPW, 7 September
2002.
(66)
Srinivasan, Eight Lectures on India’s
Economic Reforms (New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2000), p.
31.
(67)
Report in The Statesman, 20 September
2001.
(68)
Daniel H. Pink, ‘The New Face of
the Silicon Age,’ Wired, February 2002
(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/india_pr.html).
(69)
Manjeet Kripalani and Pete
Engardio, ‘The Rise of India,’ Business Week, 8
December 2003
(http://www.businessweek.com./magazine/content/03_49/b3861001_mz001.htm).
(70)
Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar, ‘An
Indian Champion,’ Newsweek, 12 April
2004.
(71)
Bharat Jhunjhunwala, ‘Gathering
Storm of Indian Imperialism,’ The New Indian
Express, 10 August
2005.
(72)
Cohen, India, pp. xv,
285–92.
(73)
Sonia Jabbar, ‘Blood Soil:
Chittisinghpora and After,’ in Urvashi Butalia,
ed., Speaking Peace:
Women’s Voices from Kashmir (New
Delhi: Kali for Women, 2002),
pp. 226f.
(74)
See Atal Behari Vajpayee, ‘Musings
from Kumarakom,’ The
Hindu, 2 January
2001.
(75)
Cf. the list of major terrorist
strikes printed in The
Indian Express, 7 April
2005.
(76)
Himal South
Asian, June 2002; Michael Krepon,
‘No Easy Exits,’ India
Today, 10 June
2002.
(77)
See Hindustan Times, 19 May
2002.
(78)
James Michael Lyngdoh, Chronicle of an Impossible
Election: The Election Commission and the
2002 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly
Elections (New Delhi: Penguin
Books, 2004), pp. 129, 141-2, 149-50, 180-81,
etc.
(79)
Rekha Chowdhury and Nagendra Rao,
‘Kashmir Elections 2002: Implications for
Politics of Separatism,’ EPW, 4 January
2003.
(80)
Quoted in The Times of India, 26 September
2003.
(81)
See Noorani, ed., The Babri Masjid
Question, Volume 2,
pp. 197ff.
(82)
See Jyoti Punwani, ‘The Carnage at
Godhra,’ in Siddharth Varadarajan, ed.,
Gujarat: The Making
of a Tragedy (New Delhi: Penguin
Books, 2002).
(83)
Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic
Life: Hindus and Muslims in India
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002), esp.
pp. 229-30, 240-1, 275–7; Jan Breman,
‘Ghettoization and Communal Politics: The
Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in the
Hindutva Landscape,’ in Ramachandra Guha and
Jonathan Parry, eds, Institutions and Inequalities: Essays for
André Béteille (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1999); Udit Chaudhuri,
‘Gujarat: The Riots and the Larger Decline,’
EPW, 2–9
November 2002.
(84)
Nandini Sundar, ‘A License to Kill:
Patterns of Violence in Gujarat,’ in
Varadarajan, ed., Gujarat ; Achyut Yagnik and
Suchitra Sheth, The
Shaping of Modern Gujarat: Plurality,
Hindutva and Beyond (New Delhi:
Penguin Books, 2005), Chapter 11; report by
Ashis Chakrabarti in The
Telegraph, 18 May
2002.
(85)
Bela Bhatia, ‘A Step Back in
Sabarkantha,’ Seminar, May
2002.
(86)
Anand Soondas, ‘Gujarat’s Children
of a Lesser God,’ The
Telegraph,
13 March 2002; ‘Gujarat Villagers Set Terms for
Muslims to Come Home,’ The New Indian Express, 6 May
2002.
(87)
Cf. Varadarajan, ed., Gujarat, p.
22f.
(88)
For a perceptive (and prescient)
analysis of Narendra Modi’s political style, see
Sankarshan Thakur, ‘An Architect of Fractures,
or the Man Who
Could be Prime Minister,’ first published in
Man’s
World, December 2002, reproduced
in
https://sankarshanthakur.com/2013/09/14/an-architect-of-fractures-or-the-man-who-could-be-prime-minister/(accessed10
August
2016).
(89)
See Manas Dasgupta, ‘Vajpayee’s
Advice to Modi,’ The
Hindu, 5 April
2002.
(90)
Ajit Kumar Jha, ‘Atal Wave,’
India
Today, 9 February 2004, available
online at
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/vajpayee-bjp-set-for-landslide-win-in-forthcoming-2004-elections/1/197000.html
(accessed 1 July 2016).
الفصل التاسع والعشرون: التقدم ومشاكله
(1)
Harish Khare, ‘Reloading the Family
Matrix,’ Seminar, June
2003.
(2)
Cf. T. N. Ninan, ‘Big Growth,
Bigger Debates,’ Seminar, January
2006.
(3)
Cf. Jean Dréze, ‘Bhopal Convention
on the Right to Work: Brief Report and Personal
Observations,’ Social
Action, volume 54, number 2,
2004; Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion,
‘Employment Guarantee in Rural India: What Would
it Cost and How Much Would it Reduce Poverty,’
EPW, 30
July 2005.
(4)
E. Sridharan, ‘Electoral Coalitions
in 2004 General Elections: Theory and Evidence,’
EPW, 18
December 2004.
(5)
See the section of special articles
on Indian Muslims, sparked by the Sachar
Committee Report, in EPW, 10 March
2007.
(6)
Cf. Yoginder Sikand, Muslims in India: Contemporary
Social and Political Discourses
(Gurgaon: Hope India,
2007).
(7)
Laurent Gayer and Christophe
Jaffrelot, eds, Muslims
in Indian Cities: Trajectories of
Marginalisation (New Delhi:
HarperCollins India,
2012).
(8)
Social,
Economic and Educational Status of the
Muslim Community in India: A
Report (New Delhi: Government of
India, 2006).
(9)
The
Hindu, 4 January 2007,
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-business/sensex-crosses-14000mark/article1777806.ece
(accessed 18 July 2016)
(10)
The
Hindu, 27 April 2007,
http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/27/stories/2007042708181700.htm
(accessed 18 July 2016).
(11)
Alam Srinivas, ‘Red Rag and the
Matador,’ Outlook, 8 October 2007,
http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/red-rag-and-the-matador/235734
(accessed 18 July 2016).
(12)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7313380.stm;
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tata-jaguar-idUSBMA00084220080602
(both accessed 18 July
2016)
(13)
The
Tribune, 12 June 2008,
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080612/main1.htm
(accessed 18 July 2016).
(14)
See R. Karthikeyan, ‘The Story of a
Resistance,’ Fountain
Ink, February
2015.
(15)
The
Hindu, 11 January
2007,
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/salim-group-undeterred-by-the-violence-in-nandigram/article1781092.ece
(accessed 18 July
2016).
(16)
Economic
Times, 3 September 2008,
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2008-09-03/news/27712402_1_nano-plant-singur-factory-alternate-options
(accessed 18 July 2016).
(17)
Sheela Bhatt, ‘The Talented Mr
Modi,’
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/12spec.htm)
and ‘Why does Modi Look Invincible,’
http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/13spec1.htm
(accessed 9 August 2016).
(18)
Bloomberg News, 8 October 2008,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-08/india-modi-wins-as-gujarat-gets-tatas-nano-plantbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice
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(19)
These paragraphs draw on two
excellent investigative reports: Nitin Sethi,
‘India Undermined,’ The
Times of India, Crest Edition, 30
October 2010; Saikat Datta, ‘Miner Sins,’
Outlook,
23 November 2009.
(20)
Radhika Raj, ‘Uphill Struggle,’
Hindustan
Times, Mumbai, 31 October
2010.
(21)
There is now a growing literature
on the social and environmental impact of mining
on India. See, among other works, Hartman de
Souza, Eat Dust: Mining
and Greed in Goa (Noida:
HarperCollins India, 2015); Felix Padel and
Samarendra Das, Out of
This Earth: East India Adivasis and the
Aluminium Cartel (Hyderabad:
Orient Blackswan, 2010); Nandini Sundar,
The Burning Forest:
India’s War in Bastar (New Delhi:
Juggernaut, 2016); Rohit Prasad, Blood Red River: A Journey
into the Heart of India’s Development
Conflict (Gurgaon: Hachette
India, 2016); “When Land
is Lost, Do we Eat Coal?”: Coal Mining and
Violations of Adivasi Rights in
India (Bangalore: Amnesty
International India, 2016). This section also
draws on my own travels in the mining districts
of Uttarakhand, Goa, Chattisgarh, and
Karnataka.
(22)
Michael Greenstone, Janhavi
Nilekani, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Anant
Sudarshan and Anish Sugathan, ‘Lower Pollution,
Longer Lives: Life Expectancy Gains if India
Reduced Particulate Matter Pollution,’ EPW, 21 February
2015; Amy Kazmin, ‘Gasping for Air,’ Financial Times, 18
November 2015.
(23)
Victor Mallet, ‘Holy river, deadly
river,’ Financial
Times, 14/15 February 2015, Gargi
Parsai, ‘Cleaning the Ganga,’ Deccan Herald, 20
July 2016.
(24)
Cf. the chapter ‘The Indian Road to
Sustainability,’ in Ramachandra Guha, How Much Should a Person
Consume? Environmentalism in India and the
United States (Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2006).
(25)
Praful Patel, then Minister of
Civil Aviation, quoted in the Times of India, 13
December 2010.
(26)
Gurcharan Das, writing in the
Times of
India, 6 March
2011.
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See Bahar Dutt, Green Wars: Dispatches from a
Vanishing World (New Delhi:
HarperCollins India,
2014).
(28)
Muthukumara Mani, ed., Greening India’s Growth:
Costs,
Valuations,
and Trade-Offs (New Delhi:
Routledge, 2013).
(29)
For a broad overview of the changes
in the position of Dalits in contemporary India,
see Gilbert Etienne, Dalits in Villages and Poverty Alleviation
Policies, 1963–2008, Occasional
Publication number 16, Institute of Rural
Management, Anand.
(30)
See the reports authored by and
collected in S. Viswanathan, Dalits in Dravidian
Land (Chennai: Navayana
Publishing, 2005). Cf. also Haruka Yanagisawa,
A Century of Change:
Caste and Irrigated Lands in Tamil Nadu,
1860s–1970s (New Delhi: Manohar,
1996), Chapter 7.
(31)
Shashi Bhushan Singh, ‘Limits to
Power: Naxalism and Caste Relations in a South
Bihar Village,’ EPW, 16 July
2005.
(32)
Mukul, ‘The Untouchable Present:
Everyday Life of Musahars in North Bihar,’
EPW, 4
December 1999.
(33)
Bela Bhatia, The Naxalite Movement in
Central Bihar, Ph D thesis,
Faculty of Social and Political Studies,
Cambridge University, 2000. Also Bhatia, ‘The
Naxalite Movement in Central Bihar,’ EPW, 9 April
2005.
(34)
See Labour
File, volume 4, numbers 5 and 6,
1998, p. 39.
(35)
Bhatia, The
Naxalite Movement, pp. 134, 87
(my translation).
(36)
See The
Hindu, 14 November
2005.
(37)
Mark Juergensmeyer, Religion as Social Vision: The
Movement Against Untouchability in 20th
Century Punjab (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1982); Harish K.
Puri, ‘Scheduled Castes in Sikh Community: A
Historical Perspective,’ EPW, 28 June
2003.
(38)
Ronki Ram, ‘Limits of
Untouchability, Dalit Assertion and Caste
Violence in Punjab,’ in Harish K. Puri, ed.,
Dalits in Regional
Context ( Jaipur: Rawat
Publications, 2004); Surinder S. Jodhka and
Prakash Louis, ‘Caste Tensions in Punjab: Talhan
and Beyond,’ EPW, 12 July
2003.
(39)
Hindustan
Times, 30 January 2005; The New Sunday
Express, 30 January
2005.
(40)
Reported in The Hindu, 17 May
2005.
(41)
Muzamil Jaleel, writing in
The Indian
Express, 8 April
2005.
(42)
These quotes are from interviews
with Muivah in The Times
of India, 2 March 2005; and in
The
Hindu, 29 April
2005.
(43)
Bhagat Oinam, ‘Patterns of Ethnic
Conflict in the North-East: A Study on Manipur,’
EPW, 24
May 2003; U. A. Shimray, ‘Socio-Political Unrest
in the Region Called North-East India,’
EPW, 16
October 2004; ‘Manipur Scenario,’ Mint, 25 November
2009; ‘Manipur’s merger with India was a forced
annexation,’ Tehelka, 11 December
2010.
(44)
Rishang Keishing, quoted in Ved
Marwah, Uncivil Wars:
Pathology of Terrorism in India
(New Delhi: HarperCollins India, 1995), p.
295.
(45)
N. Lokendra Singh, ‘Women, Family,
Society and Politics in Manipur (1970–2000),’
Contemporary
India, volume 1, number 4,
2002.
(46)
Irom Sharmilla’s story is told in
Anubha Bhonsle, Mother,
Where’s My Country: Looking for Light in the
Darkness of Manipur (New Delhi:
Speaking Tiger, 2015). She finally broke her
fast only in July 2016, fifteen-and-a-half years
after she had begun in, in the interim moving
from hospital to court and back again, all the
while being force-fed by the
state.
(47)
Peoples Union for Democratic
Rights, Why the AFSPA
Must Go (New Delhi: PUDR, 2005);
front-page photographs in The Telegraph, 16
July 2004; Sushanta Talukdar, ‘Manipur on Fire,’
Frontline, 10 September
2004.
(48)
Quoted in Ramesh, To the Brink and
Back, p.
186.
(49)
See C. Raja Mohan, ‘The Return of
the Raj,’ The American
Interest, May–June
2010.
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The
Hindu, 29 November 2007,
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(accessed 19 July 2016).
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The
Hindu, 8 February 2008,
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article1195519.ece
(accessed 19 July 2016).
(52)
News report by Press Trust of
India, 8 July 2008,
http://www.sify.com/news/left-withdraws-support-to-upa-govt-news-national-jegrS6biadc.html
(accessed 19 July 2016).
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The
Hindu, 23 July 2008,
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article1312488.ece
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The
Hindu, 27 September 2008,
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/manmohan-to-bush-people-of-india-love-you/article1346764.ece
(accessed 19 July 2016).
(55)
Outlook, 19 February 2007,
http://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/samjhauta-sabotaged/233930
(accessed 19 July 2016).
(56)
Reports in The Hindu, 19 May 200, and 14
May and 14
September
2008.
http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/19/stories/2007051907990100.htm.
http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/14/stories/2008051460640100.htm.
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(57)
Quoted in Adrian Levy and Cathy
Scott-Clark, The Siege:
The Attack on the Taj (Gurgaon:
Penguin Books, 2013), p.
127.
(58)
The
Observer, 30 November 2008,
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19 July 2016).
(59)
Pralay Kanungo, ‘Hindutva’s Fury
against Christians in Orissa,’ EPW, 13 September
2008.
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Smita Gupta, ‘Hounds and the
Flock,’
http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/hounds-and-the-flock/238766
(accessed 20 July 2016).
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http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1339932.ece
(accessed 20 July 2016). Although this was the
first major riot in the district, the tribal
Kandhas and the ‘untouchable’ Panos had long had
an uncomfortable, rivalrous relationship, as
documented in 1950 by the anthropologist F. G.
Bailey. See his Tribe,
Caste and Nation: A Study of Political
Activity and Political Change in Highland
Orissa (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1960).
(62)
See ‘Maya’s Magic,’ India Today, 21 May
2007.
(63)
Smita Gupta, 11 May 2007, in
http://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/11-may-2007/234596
(accessed 19 July 2016)
(64)
The
Hindu, 28 May 2008,
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article1265436.ece
(accessed 19 July 2016).
(65)
The impacts of NREGA have been
analysed in a series of scholarly studies
reproduced in Jean Dréze, ed., Social Policy: Essays from
EPW (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan,
2016), Section IV.
(66)
Quoted in
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8062882.stm
(accessed 20 July 2016).
(67)
Cf. K. Balagopal, ‘Andhra Pradesh:
Beyond Media Images,’ EPW, 12 June
2004.
(68)
Ramachandra Guha, ‘Redrawing the
Map, Again,’ Hindustan
Times, 10 December
2009.
(69)
See Jairam Ramesh, Old History, New Geography:
Bifurcating Andhra Pradesh (New
Delhi: Rupa, 2016), Chapter 2 and
passim.
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See
http://www.lawyerscollective.org/files/Nazpercent20Foundationpercent20Judgement.pdf
(accessed 20 July 2016).
(71)
This account is based on
http://www.rediff.com/news/amarnath08.html.
www.greaterkashmir.com/news/gk-magazine/amarnath-land-row-chronology-of-events/38658.html (both accessed 20 July 2016), as well as on my own recollection of the events as they unfolded at the time.
(72)
The
Christian Science Monitor, 7 July
2010,
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(73)
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kashmirs-bloody-sunday-8-killed-valley-burns-425750;
The
Hindu, 6 September 2010,
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/3-killed-as-police-open-fire-on-mob-in-kashmir/article617495.ece
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Jim Yardley, ‘Tensions High Across
Kashmir After Koran Protests,’ New York Times, 14
September 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/world/asia/15kashmir.html?_r=0
(accessed 20 July 2016).
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Siddharth Varadarajan, ‘The Only
Package Kashmir Needs is Justice,’ The Hindu, 20
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http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-only-package-kashmir-needs-is-justice/article551897.ece
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Cf. Yoginder Sikand, ‘Jihad, Islam
and Kashmir: Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s Political
Project,’ EPW, 2 October
2010.
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The
Hindu, 9 March 2010,
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(80)
India
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Times of
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cbi-arrests-former-telecom-minister-a-raja/article1148712.ece
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الفصل الثلاثون: صعود «نظام حزب بهاراتيا جاناتا»
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(2)
Quoted in Jiby Kattakayam, ‘I will
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arrested,’ The
Hindu, 25 April 2011,
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1765899.ece
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(7)
As reported by Jiby Kattakayam in
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Hindu, 4 June 2011,
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/i-wont-sit-back-and-watch-if-attacks-are-made-on-me-ramdev/article2076204.ece
(accessed 1 August 2016).
(8)
See
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/crackdown-20504.html
(accessed 1 August 2016).
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See
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cabinet-approves-draft-of-Lokpal-Bill-Team-Anna-calls-it-deceit-on-the-nation/articleshow/9394983.cms?referral=PM;
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Lokpal Bill,’ The
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(11)
http://tribune.com.pk/story/231812/indian-pm-warns-on-graft-on-independence-day/
(accessed 1 August 2016).
(12)
This paragraph is based on reports
in The
Telegraph, 17–21 August
2011.
(13)
Arati R. Jerath, ‘Netas Shaken and
Stirred,’ Times of
India, Crest Edition, 27 August
2011; ‘Middle Class Deserts Manmohan,’ cover
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See
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(accessed 1 August 2016).
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Gargi Parsai, ‘‘Anna Hazare ends
fast,’ The
Hindu, 28 August 2011,
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August 2011,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/28/anna-hazare-ends-hunger-strike
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Reports in The Hindu, 3 February 2012,
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/supreme-court-scraps-upas-illegal-2g-sale/article2855383.ece
(accessed 2 August 2016).
(17)
Report in The Hindu, 4 July 2012,
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cbi-chargesheets-ashok-chavan-12-others-in-adarsh-case/article3601723.ece
(accessed 2 August 2016).
(18)
Reports in the Business Standard,
25 September
2012, http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/what-is-maharashtra-irrigation-scam-112092503026_1.html;
and in The
Hindu, 8 April 2013,
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/ajit-pawars-remark-on-drought-irresponsible-opposition/article4591859.ece;
(both accessed 2 August
2016).
(19)
Report in The Hindu, 17 August 2012,
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/now-coal-burns-rs186000crore-hole-in-exchequer/article3784709.ece
(accessed 2 August 2016).
(20)
T. K. Rajalakshmi, ‘Woman as
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Muzaffarnagar Jat panchayat,’ The Hindu,
Bengaluru, 26 June 2016.
(21)
Purva Khera, Macroeconomic Impacts of
Gender Inequality and Informality in
India, IMF Working Paper,
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http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp1616.pdf
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Workplace: India ranks lowest in the diversity
study,’ Mint,
7 September 2011.
(23)
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Females,’ in two parts, EPW, 21 and 28 December
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(24)
Ravinder Kaur, ‘Across-Region
Marriages: Poverty, Female Migration and the Sex
Ratio,’ EPW,
19 June 2004; Prem Chowdhry, ‘Crisis of
Masculinity in Haryana: The Unmarried, the
Unemployed, and the Aged,’ EPW, 3 December
2005.
(25)
Rupali Sharma, ‘Beware of the Devil
at Home,’ Sunday Times
of India, Kolkata, 13 January
2013.
(26)
Report in The Hindu, 18 December 2012,
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/gangraped-in-moving-bus-23yrold-girl-fighting-for-life-in-delhi-hospital/article4211729.ece
(27)
Report in The Hindu, 23 December 2012,
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(accessed 2 August 2016).
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http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/archive/01340/Justice_Verma_Comm_1340438a.pdf
(accessed 2 August 2016).
(29)
Press Trust of India report dated
19 March 2013,
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-03-19/news/37844331_1_acid-attacks-life-term-jail-term
(accessed 2 August 2016).
(30)
See
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(accessed 3 August 2016).
(31)
Report in the Times of India, 12
December 2013,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Supreme-Court-makes-homosexuality-a-crime-again/articleshow/27230690.cms
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(32)
Reports in The Hindu, 19 January and 7
September 2013,
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/congress-prince-crowned-vicepresident/article4323414.ece
and
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rahul-ideal-choice-for-pm-says-manmohan/article5104208.ece
(both accessed 2 August
2016).
(33)
PTI report dated 20 August 2013,
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/sonia-gandhi-launches-food-security-programme-in-delhi/article5042041.ece
(accessed 2 August 2016).
(34)
See
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/gujarat-chief-minister-narendra-modi-srcc-college-delhi-university/1/249136.html;
and, for a video recording of a representative
speech,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJE59fwj_w
(both accessed 2 August 2016). Modi’s rebranding
of himself from the late 2000s onwards has been
well analysed in Nilanjan Mukhopadhyaya,
Narendra Modi: The
Man, the Times (Chennai:
Westland, 2013).
(35)
See
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2016).
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See
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(accessed 2 August 2014).
(37)
For a sampling of Modi’s election
speeches see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPW8_53X_UQ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayMIwPs_Oog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHiTiorePLA; and also, for those with infinite patience and a deeper interest in oratory.
www.narendramodi.in/10-memorable-speeches-of-shri-narendra-modi-from-2014-lok-sabha-elections-campaign-3143.
(38)
Vanshri Randive, quoted in
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/navi-mumbai/Narendra-Modis-rally-Along-with-the-faithful-came-clueless-villagers/articleshow/27766164.cms
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2013).
(39)
Rahul Verma and Shreyas Sardesai,
‘Does Media Exposure Affect Voting Behaviour and
Political Preferences in India?,’ EPW, 27 September
2014.
(40)
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V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, ‘Twitter and the
Rebranding of Narendra Modi,’ EPW, 20 February
2016.
(41)
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Times, 20 April 2014,
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(accessed 2 August 2016).
(42)
For an excellent overview and
analysis of the general election campaign, see
Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014:
The Election That Changed India
(Gurgaon: Penguin India,
2015).
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Amrita Datta, ‘Migration,
Remittance and Changing Sources of Income in
Rural Bihar (1999–2011),’ EPW, 30 July
2016.
(45)
R. B. Bhagat, ‘Nature of Migration
and Its Contribution to India’s Urbanization,’
in Deepak K. Mishra, ed., Internal Migration in
Contemporary
India (New Delhi: Sage,
2016).
(46)
Pramit Bhattacharya, ‘The rise of
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2012,
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(47)
These paragraphs draw on two
excellent collections: Himanshu, Praveen Jha and
Gerry Rodgers, eds, The
Changing Village in India (New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016); and the
special issue of EPW ’s Review of Rural Affairs, 25
June–2 July 2016, both of which feature
longitudinal analyses of villages in different
parts of India that have been extensively
studied and re-studied by economists and
anthropologists since the
1950s.
(48)
Dipankar Gupta, ‘The Importance of
Being “Rurban”,’ EPW, 13 June
2015.
(49)
Lydia Polgreen, ‘Destroying India’s
walls with success in business,’ International Herald
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Kapur, D. Shyam Babu and Chandra Bhan Prasad,
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2014).
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The
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Report in Indian Express, 3 May 2014,
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(accessed 2 August 2016).
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Sripad Motiram and Nayantara Sarma,
‘The Tragedy of Identity: Reflections on Violent
Social Conflict in Western Assam,’ EPW, 15 March
2014.
(53)
Deevakar Anand, ‘How not to handle
a riot’s aftermath,’ Tehelka, 12 October 2013;
‘Muzaffarnagar: Tales of death and despair in
India’s riot-torn town,’
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-24172537
(accessed 2 August 2016); Jagpal Singh,‘Communal
Violence in Muzaffarnagar,’ EPW, 30 July
2016.
(54)
Report in Outlook, 18 May 2014,
http://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/elections-2014-took-18-months-of-planning/841162
(accessed 2 August 2016).
(55)
E. Sridharan, ‘Class Voting in the
2014 Lok Sabha Elections,’ EPW, 27 September
2014.
(56)
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Narendra Modi,’ DNA, 29 May 2014,
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/analysis-the-rss-blueprint-for-narendra-modi-1992165
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(57)
See
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/07/indian-politics
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(58)
See
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/gallery/when-modi-picked-up-spade-to-clean-varanasi-ghat/1/13353.html
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(59)
Report in The Hindu, 26 September 2014,
http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/make-in-india-campaign-industry-lines-up-behind-narendra-modis-pitch/article6447490.ece
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(60)
Report in the Times of India, 23
January 2015,
http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-Modi-launches-Beti-Bachao-Beti-Padhao-campaign-says-female-foeticide-is-a-sign-of-mental-illness/articleshow/45985741.cms
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(61)
Report in The Economic Times, 26 June
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/pm-narendra-modi-launches-smart-cities-mission-says-centre-committed-to-urban-india/articleshow/47811630.cms
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(62)
Report in The Hindu, 2 January 2015,
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/planning-commission-to-be-renamed-niti-ayog/article6744546.ece
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(63)
See
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/INCH-towards-MILES-Modis-China-mantra/articleshow/42670778.cms
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(64)
Reports in Times of India, 4 August
2016.
(65)
See Vijay Joshi, India’s Long Road: The Search
for Prosperity (Gurgaon: Penguin
India, 2015), Chapter 5.
(66)
Shweta Punj and M. G. Arun, ‘Where
are the Jobs,’ India
Today, 2 May
2016.
(67)
Report in the Financial Times, 20
September 2015.
(68)
See
http://scroll.in/article/761934/india-is-diluting-forest-protection-by-ignoring-this-one-vital-thing
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(69)
See, among other reports,
http://indiatogether.org/how-non-compliance-is-condoned-environment.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/govt-cancels-rs-200-crore-green-fine-on-adani-116070101477_1.html.
http://thewire.in/53410/compensatory-afforestation-bill-not-passed-current-flawed-form/ (all accessed 3 August 2016). Cf. also Ashish Kothari, ‘A Hundred Days Closer to Ecological and Social Suicide,’ EPW, 27 September 2014.
(70)
See
http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/india-leads-world-in-environmental-conflicts-10655
(accessed 3 August 2016).
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See
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-Modis-exclusive-interview-with-Times-Now-Full-transcript/articleshow/52940908.cms
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(72)
Kanti Bajpai, ‘Modi’s foreign
policy of shanti and shakti,’ Seminar, January
2016.
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http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/going-to-pakistan-is-same-as-going-to-hell-says-manohar-parrikar-1444813
(accessed 28 August
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See
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-we-share-a-good-chemistry-modi-on-barack-2055609
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(75)
Some analysts, however, worried
that under Modi’s leadership India was coming
too close to the United States, and sacrificing
its own strategic interests by allowing itself
to be used by the US as a counterpoint to China.
See Srinath Raghavan, ‘Skidding Down the
Strategic Slope: Indo-US Relations,’ EPW, issue of 25
June–2 July 2016.
(76)
Rajni Kothari, Politics in India
(New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1970), pp. 156-7,
187, 192, 304, 307.
(77)
Ramachandra Guha, ‘The Long Life
and Lingering Death of the Indian National
Congress,’ in Democrats
and Dissenters (Gurgaon: Allen
Lane, 2016).
(78)
Malini Bhattacharjee, ‘Tracing the
Emergence and Consolidation of Hindutva in
Assam,’ EPW,
16 April 2016; Udayon Misra, ‘Victory for
Identity Politics, not Hindutva in Assam,’
EPW, 28
May 2016.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-MP-Sakshi-Maharaj-calls-Nathuram-Godse-a-patriot-retracts/articleshow/45484389.cms.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/aligarh-based-hindu-outfit-announces-mass-re-conversions-on-xmas-bjp-mp-welcomes-move/.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/union-minister-spells-out-choice-in-delhi-ramzada-vs-haramzada/ (all accessed 29 August 2016).
(80)
‘Rohith’s Living Legacy,’ EPW, 6 February
2016.
(81)
Ashwaq Masoodi, ‘The rise of the
Gau Rakshak,’ Mint, 26 July 2016; Arpit
Parashar, ‘The lynch mob and agenda 2017,’
Fountain
Ink, December 2015; Parth M. N.
‘Vigilante groups beat and kill to protect cows
in India,’
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-cow-terror-snap-story.html
(accessed 3 August 2016).
(82)
See
http://scroll.in/article/812329/your-mother-you-take-care-of-it-meet-the-dalits-behind-gujarats-stirring-cow-carcass-protests
(accessed 3 August 2016); Reports in the
Times of
India, 19 and 20 July
2016.
(83)
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/the-real-story-of-what-hardik-patel-21-wants-and-why-1210424
(accessed 3 August 2016); Mahesh Langa, ‘Gujarat
on the boil,’ The
Hindu, 27 August 2015; Arpit
Parashar, ‘Jats create new divisions,’ Fountain Ink, April
2016.
(84)
Prem Chowdhry, ‘Masculine Spaces:
Rural Male Culture in North India,’ EPW, 22 November
2014; Alice Tilche, ‘Migration, Bacherlood and
Discontent among the Patidars,’ EPW, Review of Rural
Affairs, 25 June–July 2
2016.
(85)
As this book goes to press, in
October 2016, the Marathas in Maharashtra,
likewise the dominant caste in their state, have
launched a major agitation demanding affirmative
action for themselves, if need be at the expense
of the Dalits.
(86)
Sunday
Times of India, 10 July 2016; ,
Shujaat Bukhari, ‘Wrath of Kashmir,’ Frontline, 19
August 2016.
(87)
Shah Faesal, ‘Every hour of prime
time TV news aggression pushes Kashmir a mile
westward from India,’ Indian Express, 20 July 2016,
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/kashmir-protest-burhan-wani-killing-selective-indian-media-coverage-insensitive-residents-column-2922176/
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خاتمة
(1)
Isaiah Berlin, ‘Nationalism: Past
Neglect and Present Power’ (1979), in his
Against the Current:
Essays in the History of Ideas,
edited by Henry Hardy (London: Pimlico, 1997),
pp. 346-7, 353-4.
(2)
The modern literature on
nationalism will fill a decent-sized library.
For a sampling of relevant works, see Ernest
Gellner, Nations and
Nationalism (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1983); Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities:
Reflections on the Origins and Spread of
Nationalism (London: Verso,
1983); Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origin of Nations
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986); Liah Greenfeld,
Nationalism: Five
Roads to Modernity (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992); Eric
Hobsbawm, Nations and
Nationalism Since 1780
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993);
Tom Nairn, Faces of
Nationalism: Janus Revisited
(London: Verso, 1997). Cf. also the classic
early work of Hans Kohn: Nationalism: Its Meaning and
History (Princeton, N. J.: Van
Nostrand, 1955).
(3)
See Mukul Kesavan, Secular Common
Sense (New Delhi: Penguin India,
2001).
(4)
Cf. Javeed Alam, Who Wants
Democracy? (New Delhi: Orient
Longman, 2004).
(5)
Bernard D. Nossiter, Soft State: A Newspaperman’s
Chronicle of India (New York:
Harper and Row, 1970),
pp. 119–23.
(6)
Joseph Stalin, Marxism and the National
Question (London: Martin
Lawrence, 1936), pp. 5-6.
(7)
Quoted in Peter A. Blitstein,
‘Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory
Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian
School,’ in Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin,
A State of Nations:
Empire and Nation-Building in the Age of
Lenin and Stalin (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2001), p.
255.
(8)
See Neil DeVotta, Blowback: Linguistic
Nationalism, Institutional Decay and Ethnic
Conflict in Sri Lanka (Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 2004),
pp. 89–91.
(9)
See S. M. Burke, ed., Jinnah: Speeches and
Statements 1947-1948 (Karachi:
Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 150, emphasis
added.
(10)
Howard, quoted in Samuel
Huntingdon, Who Are We?
America’s Great Debate (Indian
edition: New Delhi: Penguin India, 2004),
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(11)
Cf. David Gilmour, The Ruling Caste: Imperial
Lives in the Victorian Raj
(London: John Murray,
2005).
(12)
CAD, Volume 10,
pp. 43–51.
(13)
On the history and functioning of
the IAS, see David C. Potter, India’s Political
Administrators: From ICS to IAS
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Public Institutions
in India (New Delhi: Oxford
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(14)
Nehru to General Lockhart,
13 August 1947, in Group XLIX, Part I,
Cariappa Papers, National Archives of
India, New Delhi.
(15)
See papers in Group XXI, Part II,
Cariappa Papers.
(16)
Nehru to Cariappa, 13 October 1952,
in Group XLIX, Part I, Cariappa
Papers.
(17)
Report in The Hindu, 14 January 1953,
reproduced in the same newspaper on 14 January
2003.
(18)
See correspondence in Group XLIX,
Part I, Cariappa Papers.
(19)
Note of 12 December 1958, Group
XXXIII, Part I, Cariappa Papers. Cariappa went
on to claim that for these Pakistani Generals
‘war between India and Pakistan was simply
unthinkable’.
(20)
Frank Moraes to General Cariappa,
19 December 1968, Group XLIX, Part I, Cariappa
Papers.
(21)
J. S. Aurora, ‘If Khalistan Comes,
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(New Delhi: Patwant Singh, 1985),
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(22)
Cf. Steven Wilkinson, Army and Nation: The Military
and Indian Democracy Since
Independence (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press,
2015).
(23)
C. Rajagopalachari, quoted in Guy
Wint, Spotlight on
Asia (Harmondsworth: Penguin
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(24)
Woodcock, Beyond the Blue Mountains: An
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(Toronto:
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(25)
S. Gopal, ‘The English Language in
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(26)
Parry, ‘Nehru’s Dream and the
Village “Waiting Room”: Long Distance Labour
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Indian Sociology, volume 37,
2003.
(27)
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, ‘Playing the
Baloch Card,’ Indian
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2016.
(28)
Sajal Nag, In Search of the Blue Bird: Auditing Peace
Negotiations in Nagaland, NMML
Occasional Paper, History of Society, New
Series, number 60 (New Delhi: Nehru Memorial
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Peace Parleys: Sociological Reflections and a
Plea for Pragmatism,’ EPW, 18 June
2011.
(29)
Cf. Malem Ningthouja, ‘“Us”,
“them”, and an elusive peace,’ The Hindu, 7
September 2015; Pradip Phanjoubam, ‘In
Northeast, lines of conflict,’ Deccan Chronicle, 4
September 2015.
(30)
Yadav, ‘Understanding the Second
Democratic Upsurge: Trends of Bahujan
Participation in Electoral Politics in the
1990s,’ in Francine R. Frankel, Zoya Hasan,
Rajeev Bhargava and Balveer Arora, eds,
Transforming India:
Social and Political Dynamics of
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(31)
Amit Ahuja and Pradeep Chibber,
‘Why the Poor Vote in India: “If I Don’t Vote, I
am Dead to the State”,’ Studies in Comparative International
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2012.
(32)
Mukulika Banerjee, ‘Sacred
Elections,’ EPW, 28 April
2007.
(33)
Report in the Deccan Herald, 10
October 2004.
(34)
Bela Bhatia, The Naxalite
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J. M. Lyngdoh, quoted in The Times of India,
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(36)
Devadas Gandhi to Louis Fischer, 12
January 1952, Fischer papers, Princeton
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(37)
See, for instance, the collected
works of R. K. Laxman, published by Penguin
India. Laxman is the most prolific and (by
common consent) the most original of Indian
cartoonists, but there have been many other
gifted practitioners, who, like him, specialize
in political satire.
(38)
Cf. obituary in The Telegraph, 2
January 2003.
(39)
Anderson, The Spectre of
Comparisons (London: Verso,
1998), p. 132.
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See ‘Politics as a Vocation’ in
Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds, From Max Weber: Essays in
Sociology (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1946).
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See, for a general overview of
corruption in independent India, Shiv
Visvanathan and Harsh Sethi, eds, Foul Play: Chronicles of
Corruption (New Delhi: Banyan
Books, 1998).
(42)
B. S. Nagaraj, ‘Smokescreen
Resort,’ Indian
Political Review, July
2003.
(43)
For an excellent discussion of
these issues, see T. N. Ninan, The Turn of the Tortoise: The
Challenge and Promise of India’s
Future (Gurgaon: Penguin Books
India, 2015), especially Chapters 2, 5 and
10.
(44)
Peter Ronald deSouza, ‘Democracy’s
Inconvenient Fact,’ Seminar, November 2004; Prem
Shankar Jha, ‘Keep it Poll-ution Free,’
Hindustan
Times, 2 January 2006; report in
the Times of
India (Bangalore edition), 21
January 2006.
(45)
Sunday, 2–9 March
1985.
(46)
Reetika Khera, ‘Monitoring
Disclosures,’ Seminar, February 2004. This
account of the criminalization of politics also
draws upon information supplied by Professor
Trilochan Sastry, a founder member of the
Association for Democratic Reforms, the group
which filed the original PIL in the Supreme
Court.
(47)
Samuel Paul and M. Vivekananda,
‘Holding a Mirror to the New Lok Sabha,’
Economic and
Political Weekly, 6 November
2004.
(48)
Trilochan Sastry, ‘Towards
Decriminalisation of Elections and Politics,’
EPW, 4
January 2014. The link between crime and
politics is the subject of Milan Vaishnav’s
When Crime Pays:
Money and Muscle in Indian
Politics (New Delhi:
HarperCollins 2017), published just as this book
is going to press.
(49)
Arild Engelsen Ruud, ‘Talking Dirty
about Politics: A View from a Bengali Village,’
in C. J. Fuller and Veronique Bénéi, eds,
The Everyday State
and Society in India (New Delhi:
Social Science Press, 2000),
pp. 116–8.
(50)
Report in the International Herald
Tribune, 19 November
2004.
(51)
Jorge Louis Borges, The Total Library:
Non-Fiction, 1922–1986, edited by
Elliot Weinberger and translated by Esther
Allen, Jill Levine, and Elliot Weinberger
(London: Penguin Books, 2001), p. 309; R. W.
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Society and the Church in the Middle
Ages (Harmondsworth: Penguin
Books, 1970), p. 154.
(52)
Patrick French, India: A Portrait
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Jr.
2011).
(53)
Kanchan Chandra, ed., Democratic Dynasties: State,
Party and Family in Contemporary Indian
Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2016).
(54)
As reported in the New Indian Express,
Coimbatore, 25/7/2011.
(55)
Damayanti Datta, ‘What Makes him
Cry: Why the Judicial System has Broken Down and
how to Fix it’; Harish Narasappa, ‘The Long,
Expensive Road to Justice,’ both in India Today, 9 May
2016.
(56)
Report in the Times of India, 17
September 2010,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Eight-chief-justices-were-corrupt-Ex-law-minister/articleshow/6568723.cms
(accessed 19 August
2016).
(57)
See Mandira Nayar, ‘License to
Silence?,’ The
Week, 11 October
2015.
(58)
As reported in the Indian Express, 4
September 2014,
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/ex-cji-sathasivam-appointed-kerala-governor/
(accessed 29 August
2016).
(59)
Murali Karnam, ‘Conditions of
Undertrials in India,’ EPW, 26 March
2016.
(60)
Ninan, Turn
of the Tortoise, p.
120.
(61)
See
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/maharashtra/muslims-think-we-are-communal-corrupt-police/
(accessed 17 July 2014).
(62)
Report in the Times of India, 27
November 2014,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Police-most-corrupt-dept-in-state-says-portal/articleshow/45289327.cms
(accessed 29 August
2016).
(63)
See
http://humanrightsinitiative.org/old/programs/aj/police/india/initiatives/prakash_singh_judgment.pdf
(accessed 29 August
2016).
(64)
For a fuller analysis, see the
essay ‘Eight Threats to Freedom of Expression in
India,’ in Ramachandra Guha, Democrats and
Dissenters (Gurgaon: Allen Lane,
2016).