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Scanned copy of the mid 1977 advertisement by a Tarkunde Civil Rights Committee launching investigations into encounter deaths in Andhra Pradesh.

The appointment of Yellapragada Sudershan Rao as the new chairperson of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) may have been disappointing, but surely not unexpected. It has been widely reported in the mainstream media that Y S Rao’s opinions on historical matters align very closely with the world view of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other Hindutva ideologues. These views include a celebration of the caste system and an assertion that epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are exact expositions of events as they happened while also being compendia of “Indian” morality. His corpus of work as a historian, on the other hand, remains largely unpublished and unknown. It is evident that the new ICHR head has been appointed to push the Hindutva version of history and institutionalise it as much as possible.

147 workers of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) in Bhondsi jail will be waiting patiently for the decision of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana on bail plea of two of the 147 workers. They have been in jail since two years after manager Awanish Kumar Dev was killed in an instance of rioting in Maruti’s Manesar plant on 18 July 2012.

statement by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, News reports and editorial commentary

Produced in February 1984 by the Union Research Group in Bombay, this was the fourth issue of the Bulletin of Trade Union Research and Information. It looks at workers pay in 1982-83 collective bargaining agreements in Engineering and Pharmaceutical industries the Bombay Thane area. [This document has been digitised as part of a collection at sacw.net archive.]