Urdu is one of the twenty-two “scheduled languages” of the country. It is the language of vastly more Indians than, for instance, Bodo or Santali or Sindhi. Historically, there is no doubt that it is an Indian language.
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Video: Partition of 1947 - Gulzar in Conversation with Sukrita Paul Kumar
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India: Damning Urdu
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Satyagraha - An answer to modern nihilism (keynote address to conference on East-West Intercultural Relations at Ramjas college)
by , 18 March 2016Keynote address to the Eighth East-West Conference Ramjas College, March 17-18 2016. This lecture engages with the approaches of Socrates and Gandhi to the question of a ’national religion’; and on nation-worship as an instance of right-wing atheism.
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India: Arrest of Dr Saibal Jana of Shaheed Hospital (at Dalli Rajhara) Human Rights Defenders Alert - India / E-Petition to Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
18 March 2016A human rights alert from Human Rights Defenders Alert - India and an electronic petition seeks the release of Dr. Saibal Jana of Shaheed Hospital at Dalli Rajhara, Chhattisgarh
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India: Recent Settlements | URG Bulletin 8 (May 1986)
by , 17 March 2016Bulletin of Trade Union Research and Information, No 8, May 1986, is on collective bargaining settlements in the Bombay region and looks at Chemical, Engineering and Pharmaceutical firms, comparing work benefits, DA, Medical benefits, Educations and Shift allowance etc. The bulletin was produced by Union Research Group (Bombay). [This document has been digitised by sacw.net document archive]
