Articles by Bhabani Sen Gupta

phenomenon and women in all societies are more vulnerable to stress and depression on account of the consequences of this unequal status. This is a very significant hypothesisation and opens very wide possibilities for research.

February 13, 1982 Patidars dominated the Congress, and sometimes by active discrimination against their participation by a Patidar leadership which was unwilling to take up their issues. Similarly, Patidar Hindu conservatism made Gandhi's anti-untouchability efforts practically a dead letter in the areas of their dominance and resulted in the dalits becoming British loyalists as a reaction. Here, as with the issue of the character of the Patidar group itself, Hardi- man's research shows the lack of and need for a theory that can give an adequate historical materialist analysis of the linkage of caste and class in 20th century India.

"SO thrive in my dangerous affairs of hostile arms!" Shakespeare might have put these words in the mouth of an actor on the contemporary world stage appearing in the role of the Persian Gulf, This oil-rich strategic region has been militarised merrily over the decade of Oil power by the United States, the Soviet Union and other industrialised states through the willing agencies of the local monarchs intoxicated by the borrowed glamour of arms. Kunwar Rajendra Singh, of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, offers in this trim handsome volume a detailed, sharp analysis of the arms transfers to the Gulf states in the 1970s and some perceptive suggestions on how to introduce a certain measure of arms control in that volatile region. The Persian Gulf has acquired unusual importance for India's security and national interest. Indeed the two geopolitical areas of the Gulf and South Asia have been telescoped into a single geostrategic area in the last decade, although at present the Reagan administration is trying to create a new strategic area concept called Southwestern Asia which, in Washington's current military oriented perception, extends from Egypt to Pakistan. Whatever may be the US intentions, it is in India's interest to develop in our universities and research centres serious studies of the political, social, economic, strategic and military aspects of the Persian Gulf region and its individual members. Unfortunately, we have only a handful of scholars specialising in Gulf affairs. Among them K R Singh stands out with his research and analysis, his published books and papers.

Non-alignment: Demise of a Doctrine Bhabani Sen Gupta Non-alignment in Contemporary International Relations edited by K P Mishra and K R Narayanan; Vikas, New Delhi, 1981; pp 285,


The Fading of Henry Kissinger Bhabani Sen Gupta AMONG the casualties of the Vietnam liberation war is not Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser to the President, but the mythology of "Super-K". A demand has been voiced for Kissinger's resignation, but he enjoys the confidence of Gerald Ford and Nelon Rockefeller, of the "accidental Presidency" that must steer America through the shoals of the final, conclusive defeat in Indo-China.