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  • No issue, no public: democratic deficits after the displacement of politics | Noortje Suzanne Marres

    13 August 2006

    2005 dissertation at Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam. 175 Pages

  • Disband Salwa Judum

    21 July 2006

    An Independent Citizens Initiative visits different parts of Dantewara District in Chhattisgarh and appeals to the government to "announce an unconditional cease-fire and call the Maoists for a National Dialogue on all issues that concern the well-being of the people in general, and adivasis in particular".

  • Jammu and Kashmir: Pilgrim’s Progress Causes Regression

    by Gautam Navlakha, 15 July 2006

    One needs to question the propriety of official promotion of the Amarnath yatra, for the pilgrimage now involves the movement of over 5,00,000 pilgrims in an ecologically fragile area. The Indian government views the yearning for moksha (salvation) that takes so many devotees to the challenging heights of Kashmir as “afitting gesture of solidarity with our, valiant soldiers†, elevating the pilgrimage to a patriotic enterprise. A bigger mess seems to be in the making even as secular concerns go unheeded.

    by Gautam Navlakha

  • Advani, Jinnah and the secularism debate

    by Anil Nauriya, 27 May 2006

    To define the nation on the basis of religion and then to say that the state would be non-religious is an oxymoron.

  • Defining Indigeneity: Situating Transnational Knowledge

    by Manjusha S. Nair, 15 April 2006

    This paper analyzes the power structure that underlies the transnational discourse on ‘indigenous peoples.’ It poses the puzzle of legitimation, in which the criteria for inclusion in the transnationally accepted categories are fuzzy and uncertain. Claims of indigeneity also echo in communalism or Hindu nationalism in contemporary India.

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