Articles by G P Deshpande

Reflections G P Deshpande Marx ani Ambedkar by R Kasbe; Pune, pp xxiv + 360, appendices, index.
KASBE'S magnum opus runs into about four hundred pages. His earlier work which provoked a great deal of discussion and controversy (in certain circles) was a polemic against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Its title 'Jhot' (searchlight) itself underlined its polemical character. Another tidy volume written by Kasbe related to what he called Ambedkarvada (Ambedkarism), The latter work was a straightforward account aimed at placing Ambedkar in the centre of the 'left' debate in Maharashtra. It was an attempt to put Ambedkar firmly on the 'radical' side of the social divide. It was, in a manner of speaking, a marxian or semi-marxian reading of Ambedkar. The latest book by Kasbe is one more contribution in that direction.

Against Fragmentation: The Origins of Marxism and the Sociology of Intellectuals by Alvin W Gouldner; Oxford University Press, New York, 1985; pp x 4333, Rs 175 (Indian price).

Modern Ideologies and Muslim World G P Deshpande Marxism and the Muslim World by Maxime Rodinsoa; Orient Longman, New Delhi; pp viii + 229, Rs 80.

March 1, 1975 the complacency of a handful minority or they may challenge deep-seated sacred beliefs and question the most fundamental postulates of our social, political and economic thinking. That should be no ground for anxiety or apprehension." Consider, on the other hand, what the First Additional Special Sessions Judge, Trivandrum, had to say:

October 19, 1974 Exit Menon, Enter Kissinger G P Deshpande WITH Motion's death the last link with our anti-imperialist past has snapped. Menon had ceased to be a significant force in Indian politics for over a decade now. The world had not significantly changed; but the Indian perception of the world had. It must have been a constant source of surprise and agony to Krishna Menon that the Indian leadership had come to take such a fond view of America and Imperialism. The process in a way had begun during Nehru's lifetime itself. It was, however, still within limits then. During the decade since Nehru's death the talk of contradiction between resurgent Asian nationalism and Western, especially American, imperialism had increasingly become an irritating nuisance for the Indian leadership. A new group of policy-planners, bright and up-to-date on the cliches, had since emerged which had no use for this 'idealistic' contradiction. They were out to build pragmatic practical approaches to international politics. They had no use for Menon.