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Credibility and Portability?

Vol. 51, Issue No. 37, 10 Sep, 2016
Anuradha Joshi, Dipa Sinha, Biraj Patnaik

Examining the Centralised Online Real-time Electronic Public Distribution System reforms introduced by the Government of Chhattisgarh to understand the processes and conditions under which such reforms strengthen accountability and affect the delivery of public services, it is found that while earlier reforms have been successful, the contribution of CORE PDS has been useful but limited. A significant finding was that technological fixes for social protection programmes are only feasible insofar as they work within the political logic of the context in question. CORE PDS reforms could not address the issues of power imbalances between shop owners and cardholders which continue to shape interactions between them. Introducing transparency, accountability and quasi-market reforms in this context offered limited possibilities in what they could achieve.

Majoritarian Rationale and Common Goals

Vol. 51, Issue No. 37, 10 Sep, 2016
Atul Sood

Looking at existing policy instruments and goals, and the economic and social outcomes they promise to deliver, it is argued that majoritarian politics and social and cultural outcomes are not part of fringe thinking. The politics of hate actually works to build a consensus for ruling class economics. It is not surprising, therefore, that the only "nationalist outlook" of our times is to stand firmly behind the policy programme for the global investor.

Secularism and Religious Violence in Hinduism and Islam

Vol. 51, Issue No. 18, 30 Apr, 2016
Vivek Swaroop Sharma

This article underlines the need to move beyond the exhausted notion of all religions preaching peace to studying the specific manner in which violence is legitimised in each religion. This is the first step liberal secularists need to take if they plan to mount a successful challenge to the dominance of the Hindu right.

Dhar on Tenterhooks

Vol. 51, Issue No. 15, 09 Apr, 2016
Anshu Saluja

A communal flare up may have been avoided in the Bhojshala complex at Dhar in Madhya Pradesh, but majoritarian Hindu groups continue to stoke popular communal passions unabated. 

Unprecedented Anti-intellectualism

Vol. 51, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 2016
International Sociological Association

We, the members of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association, express solidarity with students, teachers, writers, creative artists and activists in India fighting for the rights to freedom of expression, life and liberty, in the context of increasingly virulent attack

Undone by Its Own Mistakes

Vol. 51, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2016
James Manor

In the 2015 Bihar elections, Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies led at the outset but lost badly to the Grand Alliance when votes were counted. The familiar themes of caste and development--along with governance, class alignments, the reservations issue, and communal polarisation--were all important, but the mishandling of them by BJP leaders turned them to their rivals' advantage. The BJP campaign suffered from the over-centralisation of power in the hands of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. A detailed account, based on fieldwork and interviews with those on the ground, explains how BJP lost in Bihar.

Targeting Institutions of Higher Education

Vol. 51, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2016
Romila Thapar

The ideology central to the Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has no space or use for liberal thought and values. Education for such organisations means only what can be called a kind of catechism. This is a memorisation of a narrow set of questions rooted in faith and belief and an equally narrow set of answers that prohibit any doubt or deviation. Therefore, educational centres that allow questioning and discussion are anathema and have to be dismantled.

Dalit Question in the Upcoming West Bengal Assembly Elections

Vol. 51, Issue No. 9, 27 Feb, 2016
Praskanva Sinharay

Suppressed for long, autonomous Dalit politics is finding its voice in West Bengal through the organisational strength of the Matua Mahasangha. This article takes a look at the recent developments in this organisation and how it is projecting Dalit demands in the run-up to the coming legislative assembly elections in the state.

University and the Nation

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016
Manash Bhattacharjee

If nationalist sentiments are the only and final prerogative to belong to an academic community, then it must also be reiterated, a university has no business to share these sentiments. The founding figures of JNU knew it and it is upon the entire community of students, teachers and concerned citizens to safeguard the university against such jingoistic versions of nationalism. 

Political Intolerance in Bengal

Vol. 51, Issue No. 2, 09 Jan, 2016
Debatra K Dey

Political intolerance is a bigger problem than religious intolerance in West Bengal. How will this affect the 2016 Assembly elections in West Bengal?

By-Election Results : Warning Bells

Vol. 36, Issue No. 39, 29 Sep, 2001

With only a few months to go for the assembly elections in UP, the results of the by-elections in two Lok Sabha and nine assembly constituencies across seven states could not have come at a more inconvenient time for the BJP. For the Congress, on the other hand, there were signs, already visible in the May assembly elections, of some revival of fortunes. The party has won four of the assembly seats at stake.

Uttar Pradesh : Election Games

Vol. 36, Issue No. 38, 22 Sep, 2001

Ever since he became chief minister in October last year, Rajnath Singh has viewed himself as BJP’s man of destiny in UP. The move to bring him back to UP was an attempt by the party to shore up its sagging fortunes in the state that had reached their nadir in the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, with the BJP winning just 29 of the 85 seats. Since then, his every move has been anxiously watched by the party high command, as he has set about charting his path for the assembly elections generally expected in March next year.

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