Articles by Anil Nauriya

Gandhi's critics had argued at the time that he was carrying out his campaigns against untouchability, that it would go only when caste was destroyed. It is not generally known that Gandhi moved to this position in the mid-1940s. It is also generally understood that while Gandhi opposed untouchability and criticised caste, he defended 'varnavyavastha', the fourfold varna order. This is not entirely correct over the entire Gandhian trajectory. Gandhi's own critique of the varna order, which unfurled over time, is usually overlooked by scholars.

The supreme Court's s juagment in Manohar josni s case ana us observations about Hindutva in R Y Prabhoo 's case reflect a growing tendency towards appropriation of the BJP-RSS conceptual framework by state institutions. It is a warning to the secular and pluralistic tendencies in the country.

Politics of Religious Hate Beyond the Bills Anil Nauriya WHATEVER the merits or otherwise of the legislation on .'religion and polities', whose consideration has now been deferred, it was not only a tactical but also a factual error to have described the legislation as intended 'to delink religion and politics'. This description has been repeatedly used by government spokesmen: the union min- ister for parliamentary affairs resorted to it again as recently as on August 30 while suggesting that there might be a special session of parliament to consider at least one of the bills.

Anil Nauriya The Chattisgarh movement led by Niyogi transcended in the question whether industrial workers or peasants and agricultural labourers have the major potential or historical precedence in terms of political organisation.

Foreign Exchange Flux: A King's Ransom Anil Nauriya After more than 10 years of IMF-World Bank prescriptions and after these organisations have spent the entire 1980s praising this or that initiative of the government of India, it still does not occur to the latter that the present crisis may be attributable in part to these prescriptions themselves rather than solely to the regulatory mechanisms that are sought to be dislodged.