India

There are a million and one home pages devoted to India, and you can find anything from a collection of hindi movie songs to an urdu dictionary. These are easy to find - for instance, through the India Home Page in Boston and the collection of Indian Home Pages in Texas!

This page is intended to be a collection of links to articles about issues in India. I hope to maintain a certain plurality in the views to be found here, though ultimately of course this page will be biased towards articles favoring my own world-view. If you have anything you would like to see added here or suggestions for a better balance of views, please send email to [email protected]. And since you came this way, do stop by my home page.

Note There used to be a lot of links here to articles in The Hindu. But that paper deletes "old" articles from its online archives, making all these links useless, and so I have deleted them from these pages. Unfortunately, this has meant the demise of the sections on "Caste" and "North-East".

A healthy dose of Kabir is recommended before reading further.

1. Newspaper Articles
   
   
2. My pages about the Partition.
   
   
3. American Federation of Muslims from India
   
   
4. Some calculations that debunk the RSS-created myth of a danger to the Indian polity from the rising Muslim population.
   
   
5. Good (offline) readings:
   • Manushi (Double Issue), No 74-75, Jan-March 1993
   • Committee on South Asian Women Bulletin (Women and the Hindu Right), Vol 8, No 3-4, 1993
   • Women and the Hindu Right: a collection of essays, Ed. Tanika Sarkar and Urvashi Butalia. New Delhi : Kali for Women, 1995.
   • Hindus and Others: the question of identity in India today, Ed. Gyanendra Pandey. New Delhi ; New York : Viking, 1993.

1. Newspaper Articles
   
   
2. Maps of Kashmir - produced by the CIA !
   
   
3. Jammu and Kashmir - a collection of newspaper articles from 1993-95 maintained by 'Prakash'.
   
   
4. Amnesty International Report - 1995.
   
   

1. Caste and Religion Devastates the Labour Movement - George Fernandes (Workers' Education, No. 9, July 1995)
   
   
2. Datta Samant - an assessment by Javed Anand (Rediff On The Net).
   
   

1. Oppression in Punjab - a 1985 report by Citizens for Democracy. This publication is banned by the Govt. of India.
   
   
2. State terrorism and the assassination of Beant Singh - Association of Indian Progressive Study Groups (Sept 3, 1995).
   
   
3. CBI unearths covert disposal of 'unidentified' bodies P.T.I. (Indian Express, July 23, 1996).
   
   

1. Here comes the bride - Rahul Bedi (The Electronic Telegraph, Sep 8, 1995) 3,000 cooks fill 30 acres of tables for the wedding of Jayalalitha's foster son .
   
   

Sangh Parivar Politics and Women -- Liberation, or Lip Service? - S. Joshi (May, 1997)

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Environment

1. Biodiversity Profile of India.
   
   
2. Environment and India - A collection of newspaper articles from 1993 maintained by 'Prakash'.
   
   
3. The Narmada and Tehri Dam files at the Dam and Reservoir Impact and Information Archive.
   
   
4. India: Open for Business - ( Multinational Monitor , July/Aug 1995).
   
   
5. DuPont - Spinning its Wheels in India - Gary Cohen and Satinath Sarangi (Multinational Monitor, March 1995).
   
   

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Public Health

1. The Bhopal Disaster.
   
   
2. National Family Health Survey, 1992-93.
   
   
3. 'Arsenic calamity' in India's villages - Roger Highfield (Electronic Telegraph, Aug 10, 1995).
   
   
4. The AIDS disaster in Bombay - Ashok Row Kavi (Rediff On The Net).
   
   

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Human Rights

1. 1993 U.S. State Department Report.
   
   
2. Amnesty International Reports. From the Human Rights pages maintained at Derechos.
   
   
3. Human Rights in India and The National Human Rights Commission - maintained by `Prakash'.
   
   
4. 1996 U.S. State Department Report.
   
   

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History

1. Gandhi and the National Movement - Prof. Irfan Habib (Safdar Hashmi Memorial Lecture at SAHMAT, Delhi, Oct 1998).
   
   
2. On the origins of Indians - D. Balasubramanian, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad (The Hindu, March 14, 1996).
   
   
3. Links to India information - History - A page at the WWW Virtual Library.
   
   
4. INDOLOGY - Internet Resources for Indological Scholarship.
   
   
5. Some of my pages concerning Muslims and their attitudes towards Congress and British Rule:
   • Jinnah
   • Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's attack on the Congress; and the opposing views presented by Badruddin Tyabji and Rahimatullah Sayani.
   
   
   
6. Prof. Mohammad Habib and extracts from some of his articles.
   
   
7. Two of Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches:
   • Tryst with destiny
   • The light has gone out

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