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Underlying the glorification of Savarkarism by the BJP-RSS-Shiv Sena are changes in the nature and objectives of the major political parties, the cynicism induced by the growing nexus between crime and politics, and the collapse of a compact that had facilitated post-independence politics.

The Hindu, Sep 18, 2005
Delhi remembers Alice Thorner
Staff Reporter
Memorial meeting held at India International Centre
NEW DELHI: It was the end of Alice’s wonderland for all her friends in India. A global soul in the true sense before the term became fashionable, Alice Thorner - an eminent social scientist - left behind a legacy that has served to inspire the stalwarts of modern thought in India and elsewhere.
Bringing bright scholars together in her house in Paris over dinner (…)

(article publié dans Le Monde daté du 9 septembre 2005)
ALICE THORNER
Jacques Pouchepadass,
Directeur de recherche, CEIAS (EHESS-CNRS)
Alice Thorner, spécialiste américaine renommée de l’Inde contemporaine, née à New York le 16 novembre 1918 et résidente en France depuis 1960, est décédée à Paris le 24 août 2005. Alice et son mari Daniel Thorner, qui enseigna lui-même pendant près de quinze ans l’histoire et l’économie de l’Inde moderne à l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (…)

(published in: The Economic and Political Weekly, Sept 13, 2005)
It was EPW that introduced Alice to me. Sometime in late ’89 or early ’90, when I was in Bombay, Alice, called me to request permission to reprint an article published by EPW in February 1988 titled The Construction and Reconstruction of Gandhi in an anthology that she and Maithreyi Krishnaraj were editing on behalf of Sameeksha Trust. (Ideals, Images and Real Lives, Women in Literature and History.2000).
Alice and I met a (…)

(Published in: Diogenes)
Marc Gaborieau
– CNRS/EHESS, Paris
This is the obituary of Alice Thorner, an American scholar-specialist of the social history of India, who spent most of her career in France. She first worked with her husband, Daniel Thorner (1915-74), who briefly taught in Pennsylvania before being expelled from the USA by McCarthy. They lived in India from 1952 to 1960, where they worked on Land and Labor. They settled in Paris in 1960 when Daniel was appointed to the EPHE (…)