{"title":"The Other Half of the Demographic Dividend.","authors":"Sonalde Desai","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53574,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Weekly","volume":"45 40","pages":"12-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3381360/pdf/nihms382430.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30723062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-08-01DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3932-9_14
N. Taneja
{"title":"Informal Trade in the SAARC Region","authors":"N. Taneja","doi":"10.1007/978-981-15-3932-9_14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3932-9_14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53574,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Weekly","volume":"7 1","pages":"267-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73092577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2009-09-19DOI: 10.1080/13602009308716277
M. Bilal
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe. Eminent French historian Robert Mantran has written of Lewis's work: "How could one resist being attracted to the books of an author who opens for you the doors of an unknown or misunderstood universe, who leads you within to its innermost domains: religion, ways of thinking, conceptions of power, culture-an author who upsets notions too often fixed, fallacious, or partisan." In Islam and the West, Bernard Lewis brings together in one volume eleven essays that indeed open doors to the innermost domains of Islam. Lewis ranges far and wide in these essays. He includes long pieces, such as his capsule history of the interaction-in war and peace, in commerce and culture-between Europe and its Islamic neighbors, and shorter ones, such as his deft study of the Arabic word watan and what its linguistic history reveals about the introduction of the idea of patriotism from the West. Lewis offers a revealing look at Edward Gibbon's portrait of Muhammad in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (unlike previous writers, Gibbon saw the rise of Islam not as something separate and isolated, nor as a regrettable aberration from the onward march of the church, but simply as a part of human history); he offers a devastating critique of Edward Said's controversial book, Orientalism; and he gives an account of the impediments to translating from classic Arabic to other languages (the old dictionaries, for one, are packed with scribal errors, misreadings, false analogies, and etymological deductions that pay little attention to the evolution of the language). And he concludes with an astute commentary on the Islamic world today, examining revivalism, fundamentalism, the role of the Shi'a, and the larger question of religious co-existence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. A matchless guide to the background of Middle East conflicts today, Islam and the West presents the seasoned reflections of an eminent authority on one of the most intriguing and little understood regions in the world.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-13DOI: 10.4135/9789351507871.n7
Ajay Gudavarthy
How far have regional organisations in the south been successful in struggling against neoliberal policies initiated in the northern countries, and actively aided by the international financial institutions? How far have they succeeded in establishing an alternative global regime of development? An assessment of these regional formations in Asia, Africa and Latin America is undertaken to find whether they could fulfil the aspirations for an alternative and just globalisation.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9781400834952.73
D. Chakrabarty
The process of creating "unfettered" access to historical information can be seen as the prying open of information that was otherwise accessible only to a "privileged" community. This is a tension that is central to the very idea of the public sphere: it can act simultaneously both as a Utopia of "bourgeois" equality and as an ideology of domination. It can be simultaneously democratic and undemocratic. The agents and advocates of the public sphere are often the bearers of this tension for we never find a society where all its members, inspired by the social value of what we call "history", volunteer to convert willingly all "private" documents into "public" records. The rendering of private papers into public documents must remain, in the end, a political question. This paper illustrates this proposition by looking at a fragment of the history of history in colonial India in the 20th century. At the centre of the story is the historian Jadunath Sarkar who may be regarded as one of the earliest proponents in the subcontinent of the Rankean ideals of "scientific" history.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.4324/9780367817961-17
S. Srivastava
A presentation of an ethnography of the relationship between urban spaces, new cultures of consumption, the state, and the making of middle class identities in India. Firstly, the discussion explores the making of new urban spaces by focusing upon the Akshardham Temple complex on the banks of the Yamuna river in Delhi. Surrounded by a network of flyovers, highways, toll-ways, and residential developments, the complex is designed as a hi-tech religious and nationalist theme park. The Delhi government-sponsored bhagidari (sharing) scheme that brings together representatives of the Residents’ Welfare Associations, Market Traders Associations, and key government officials at periodically organised workshops forms the second site of focus.
{"title":"Urban Spaces, Disney-divinity and the Moral Middle Classes in Delhi","authors":"S. Srivastava","doi":"10.4324/9780367817961-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367817961-17","url":null,"abstract":"A presentation of an ethnography of the relationship between urban spaces, new cultures of consumption, the state, and the making of middle class identities in India. Firstly, the discussion explores the making of new urban spaces by focusing upon the Akshardham Temple complex on the banks of the Yamuna river in Delhi. Surrounded by a network of flyovers, highways, toll-ways, and residential developments, the complex is designed as a hi-tech religious and nationalist theme park. The Delhi government-sponsored bhagidari (sharing) scheme that brings together representatives of the Residents’ Welfare Associations, Market Traders Associations, and key government officials at periodically organised workshops forms the second site of focus.","PeriodicalId":53574,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Weekly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86616682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-19DOI: 10.4135/9788132105992.N7
M. Ranganathan, S. Roy-Chowdhury
This paper explores the use of the internet for nation-building in Nagaland by groups which have been engaged in a power struggle with the union of India. It looks at the perpetuation of Naga nationalism in the framework of Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory and Gramsci's concept of hegemony. Building upon earlier studies that have established the potential of the internet to promote nationalist ideologies, it brings to light how particular political ideologies are constructed and reinforced through the internet to address issues intrinsic to the Nagas who have historically lived independently with little interaction with non-Naga groups. The nationalist ideology placed in the context of discourse theory is methodologically approached through analysis of texts in political web sites dedicated to the Naga issue. demand for a union of all the Naga inhabited areas surrou din the present so-called "neocolonial" structure of Nagaland as recognised by the government of India, presents i self as a problem which has largely been ignored by the owers that be as well as the mainstream media [Bezboruah 2006]. Historically, the Naga with limited interaction with nonNaga groups re ained an independe t entity until they were annexed, first by the British and later by India (ibid). When the Naga intellect d cided to invoke nation ood, there began a power struggl that has by and large remained unm nitored by the rest of the world, including the dominant media in India. It is in this con ext that a study of Naga nationalism perpetuated through the use of the internet becomes significant. Today the "internet" as been restructur d a a generic label that "refers to the electronic sys em and space where many people can present their idea to produce a new computer 're lity' which is the sum of the variou opini ns, ideas, practices and ideologies" generated by millions w o use this medium [Mitra 1997]. The "data" has now taken the shape of perceivable messages converting the internet into a mass medium where ideologies are expressed, ideas are formed and public opinion is generated a part of Habermas' "public sphere" which delineates public opinion with its consequent transformation and creation of identity and identity politics.1 Drawing from B Anderson's seminal work, Imagined Communities, this paper explores the hegemonic articulation and the antagonistic dynamic between the Indian nation state and the minority Naga nationalism online [Anderson 1991]. Among the host of Naga nationalist web sites a purposive sample of three has been selected for rhetorical analysis.2
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The dalit/feminist critique of Gandhi and his philosophy derives from the same epistemological framework of "lived experience" that characterises Gandhian thinking and praxis as well. The "exclusive" and top-down nature in turn suggests problems in the Gandhian outlook. The emerging new identity politics (just as Gandhi's politics) is too strongly bound within experiential confines, and could only entrench the social practices which it wishes to transcend.
{"title":"Gandhi, Dalits and Feminists: Recovering the Convergence*","authors":"Ajay Gudavarthy","doi":"10.4324/9781003105923-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105923-4","url":null,"abstract":"The dalit/feminist critique of Gandhi and his philosophy derives from the same epistemological framework of \"lived experience\" that characterises Gandhian thinking and praxis as well. The \"exclusive\" and top-down nature in turn suggests problems in the Gandhian outlook. The emerging new identity politics (just as Gandhi's politics) is too strongly bound within experiential confines, and could only entrench the social practices which it wishes to transcend.","PeriodicalId":53574,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Weekly","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81173557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-05-24DOI: 10.4324/9780203203392-14
K. Visweswaran
India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform by Leela Fernandes;
印度的新中产阶级:经济改革时代的民主政治
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J. Ghosh, A. Mitra, G. Pandey, Reshma Nigam, Jaya Vatsyayan, S. Ahmad, R. Lal, D. Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, D. Ludden
{"title":"Appeal for justice","authors":"J. Ghosh, A. Mitra, G. Pandey, Reshma Nigam, Jaya Vatsyayan, S. Ahmad, R. Lal, D. Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, D. Ludden","doi":"10.7560/704077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/704077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53574,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Weekly","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83605884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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