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From 50 Years Ago: Suppressing the African Worker

Vol. 58, Issue No. 9, 04 Mar, 2023

Vol VIII, No 9 MARCH 3, 1973

Unwrapping an Uprising that hastened Indian Independence

Vol. 57, Issue No. 44-45, 29 Oct, 2022
The article looks at the three approaches to understanding the narrative of the 1946 Royal Indian Navy Uprising. One is the idea of a planned conspiracy to overthrow the imperialists by the communists. The second is that of a revolutionary upsurge by young firebrands inspired by the Indian National Army of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The third is the overflowing angst from racial discrimination and mistreatment that broke the disciplined contours of a naval service into a strike. The author argues that the actual events in 1946 may have had a mix of these possibilities.

Anatomy of ‘Alt-Right’ Politics

Vol. 57, Issue No. 36, 03 Sep, 2022
S Irfan Habib

Ipsita Chatterjee has gone through an arduous task by documenting the painful and divisive politics of the United States

Ambedkar as a Philosopher

Vol. 56, Issue No. 50, 11 Dec, 2021
Chinnaiah Jangam

The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections edited by Suraj Yengde and Anand Teltumbde, New Delhi: Penguin, 2018; pp 520, ₹999.

 

Songs of Protest

Vol. 56, Issue No. 43, 23 Oct, 2021
Radhika Kumar

Dalit musicians offer a radical imagination of music that breaks open the binaries of the sonic while adopting multiple genres, technologies, and emerging soundscapes.

 

Caste and Race: Discrimination Based on Descent

In 2001, Dalit non-governmental organisations pushed for the inclusion of caste-based discrimination in the United Nations conference on racism and other forms of descent-based discriminations. How did the Government of India respond to the internationalisation of casteism? Why did Dalits want casteism to be treated on par with racism in the first place? Did they succeed? And above all, is caste the same as race?

Gandhi and the Re-enactment of Racism

Vol. 56, Issue No. 32, 07 Aug, 2021
Radha Kumari

Examining M K Gandhi’s attitude towards South African natives during his sojourn in South Africa, Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed, in their book The South African Gandhi, have accused Gandhi of racism, arguing that Gandhi kept his struggle for British concessions for indentured Indians in South Africa separate from the struggle of Zulu people for freedom from colonial rule, because Gandhi considered the natives racially inferior and called them Kaffirs—a derogatory term used against them by the Whites as well as Indians. However, accusing Gandhi of racism indicates a misrepresentation of his ideas in transition, and the word Kaffir does not connote a racial slur.

Germany’s Apology to Namibia

Vol. 56, Issue No. 26-27, 26 Jun, 2021
Rajen Harshe

Tracing the genesis of Germany’s apology for genocide in Namibia, this article situates Germany in the context of colonialism and racism in Africa. It contends that Germany is morally guilty of violating human rights but is legally not bound to pay reparations to Namibia. In order to promote humanitarian international law, institutions like the United Nations need to initiate measures to compensate the victims of genocide.

 

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: A Reading List on Racism in India

In India, racism, casteism and colourism are not mutually exclusive - they may often overlap. That does not mean however, that racism does not exist.

Was Gandhi a Racist?

Vol. 51, Issue No. 5, 30 Jan, 2016
Nishikant Kolge

This is a chronological account of Gandhi's writings with a view to assess whether or not his outlook towards African blacks can be considered racist. This article also attempts to understand the immediate context in which Gandhi makes his comments on black Africans and argues that the absence of such an understanding might lead to a dubious or inappropriate conclusion.

Implications of American Islamophobia

Vol. 50, Issue No. 51, 19 Dec, 2015
Vinay Lal

The remarks of the United States presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, on Muslims in America have caused outrage all over the world and have led many to say that Trump is going against what the country stands for. The present rash of Islamophobia is, however, only the latest example of a deep vein of racism and xenophobia that runs through mainstream American society.

Race and Space

Vol. 49, Issue No. 46, 15 Nov, 2014
Neha Sinha

Ignorance, bolstered by stereotypes of external appearance, is a determinant in racism and is increasingly manifesting itself as hateful external aggression.

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