Articles by K Balagopal

Telangana Movement Revisited K Balagopal I AM neither a social scientist nor do I have the courage to describe myself a 'revolutionary socialist', in other words, I belong neither to the category in which Dhanagare (December 18, 1982) gallantly includes Barry Pavier (and gets an unpleasant rebuke in return) nor to the category in which Barry Pavier makes bold to include himself. If, nevertheless, I am chancing my arm in commenting upon Pavier's cavalier tract on Telan- gana ("The Telangana Movement, 1944-51") and his presumptous comments on Dhanagare's review of the book (March 5), that is out of a fear that nobody with better credentials is going to do so. The fear is prompted by the fact that Dhanagare, the acknowledged academic expert on Telangana, is so unsure of himself that he manages to render 'vetti' as bonded labour and suggests with an insufferable politeness that perhaps Pavier has not given enough importance to it in trying to understand Telangana. Such politeness, to paraphrase a historian of mathematics speaking of Spinoza, would be engaging were it not exasperating.

ANDHRA PRADESH Forever 'Disturbed' Peasant Struggle of Sircilla-Vemula wada K Balagopal M Kodandarama Reddy 'REVOKE the disturbed areas proclamation in Sircilia and jagtiall' is a slogan found splattered on the walls of Telangana towns. What used to be Sircilla (pronounced Sirisilla) at the time of the 'disturbed areas' proclamation in October 1978 has subsequently been cut into two talukas, Sircilla and Vemulawada, so that Vemulawada was, so to speak, born a 'disturbed area'. The bifurcating line is the Karimnagar- Kamareddy road, with Vemulawada lying to the north of the road and Sircilla to the south. Together they occupy the south-west corner of Karimnagar district.

regulations being implemented especially strictly in plants handling radioactivity.
(3) The Health Physics Units must be given independent authority free of control by the local administration, (4) Medical theck-ups must include specialised investigation for the various chemical and physical agents handled and the findings must be made known to workers along with appropriate advice and treatment.

the steel industry which should draw upon foreign money and services as essentially an export industry and derive maximum advantage from such a transaction. The present government does not; subscribe to this philosophy and stakes a claim to being 'modern' and in favour of industrialisation of the country. When it, therefore, pursues Patnaik's path for the steel industry, the position becomes even more ominous. It has to be seen as part of a wider tie-up that is in view with international capital in the industrial development plans of the regime.