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Dialogue Needed on Sardar Sarovar

Vol. 49, Issue No. 37, 13 Sep, 2014
A C Bhagabati, A Vaidyanathan, Amita Baviskar, Ashish Kothari, Bharat Patankar, Ghanshyam Shah, K J Joy, Kanchan Chopra, Ramaswamy R Iyer, S Janakarajan, Sanjay Kak, Sharachchandra Lele, Sudarshan Iyengar, Suhas Paranjape, Vimalbhai and others

The following is an Open Letter to Uma Bharti, Minister for Water Resources, Government of India:

A Plan for Resolving Mullaperiyar Conflict

Vol. 46, Issue No. 51, 17 Dec, 2011
Amita Baviskar, Bharat Patankar, Biksham Gujja, Chandan Mahanta, Dulal Chandra Goswami, Eklavya Prasad

(For Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India)

Movement for Water-Takari Peasants Struggle in Maharashtra

Vol. 26, Issue No. 15, 13 Apr, 1991
Bharat Patankar, Gail Omvedt

Takari Peasants' Struggle in Maharashtra Gail Omvedt Bharat Patankar The people of Khanapur taluka in Maharashtra have been agitating against a government irrigation scheme supposedly aimed at abolishing drought in the region. In reality, the scheme will only make a few villages prosperous leaving the rest untouched.

Textile Workers and Datta Samant

Vol. 16, Issue No. 49, 05 Dec, 1981
Bharat Patankar

Cotton textiles, the biggest industry in Bombay employing the largest 11 number of workers, has been churning for the last two months. The first intimation of the turmoil came when workers went on a warning strike on September 27 under the leadership of four unions. The strike was in support of the demand for 12.33 per cent bonus payment by mills making losses and 20 per cent and more by the others, according to their profits. The unions also gave a warning of an indefinite strike in support of the general demands of textile workers which have been pending for several years. 

The Dalit Liberation Movement in Colonial Period

Vol. 14, Issue No. 7-8, 24 Feb, 1979
Bharat Patankar, Gail Omvedt

This paper attempts to survey the history of Dalit struggles in relation to the national movement and the communist movement and to bring to the fore the important role the Dalit movement has played in the democratic movement of the country and is going to play in the new democratic struggles in the future. 

PERSPECTIVES

Vol. 14, Issue No. 7-8, 24 Feb, 1979
Bharat Patankar, Gail Omvedt

Nalini Pandit Classes in Marxist theory are not mere economic categories. They are living social groups whose attitudes and responses are determined by historical and cultural factors. The materialistic interpretation of history does not imply an exclusive emphasis on the economic factor to the comparative neglect of others. The purpose of formulating a social theory is to understand the attitudes and responses of different social groups to particular programmes.

The Bourgeois State in Post-Colonial Social Formations

Vol. 12, Issue No. 53, 31 Dec, 1977
Bharat Patankar, Gail Omvedt

The Bourgeois State in Post-Colonial Social Formations Bharat Patankar Gail Omvedt Two important changes have occurred since the end of the second world war which serve to characterise a different phase of imperialism. These are, first, a change in the character of the State in most third world countries from a colonial state to a politically independent bourgeois State and, second, a change in the mechanisms through which the imperialist system dominates the third world.

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