My Seditious Heart

by Arundhati Roy

  Adani Group, 678, 809

  Ad Dharm movement, 688, 706, 770

  Adi Hindu movement, 687

  Aditya Birla Group, 678

  Adityanath, Yogi, 824

  Adivasi Mukti Sangathan (Adivasi Liberation Group), 233, 863

  Adivasis, 46, 90, 123, 162–63, 356, 426, 472, 500, 526, 548–51, 574, 584, 605, 643, 652, 679, 682–85, 785, 813, 817–19, 863; Ambedkar and, 695, 763–65; displaced by dams, 25–26, 33–34, 53–54, 57–64, 95, 117, 153–55, 183–84, 234, 429; Maoists and, 295, 350, 476, 492–94, 501, 504–5, 545, 586, 592, 595–602, 612, 626, 788–89, 828–29; Tadvi, 61, 72; treatment by Hindu nationalists, 175, 275, 301, 424, 474–75, 600, 764, 781, 799–802, 807, 826, 828, 866, 899n17; treatment by Indian state, 19–21, 233–34, 239–40, 295–96, 303, 315, 349–50, 586, 624, 626, 640, 666, 765–66, 789, 949n228, 949n231

  Advani, Lal Krishna (L. K.), 87, 104, 165, 337, 372–73, 379, 383, 459, 476, 655–56, 804–5, 812, 888n22, 891n3; Babri Majid attack (1992), xvii, 19, 93, 166, 232, 301–2, 304, 422, 452, 455–56, 470, 482, 785, 801, 805, 863, 868; BJP and, 801, 810, 863; Rath Yatra, 232, 302, 422, 452, 470, 801, 863, 867; RSS and, 421, 444, 451–52, 710, 801; Sardar Sarovar Dam and, 92–93

  Afghanistan, 5, 135, 137, 167–68, 239, 245, 258, 259, 272, 290, 337, 348, 354, 473, 486, 487, 617, 636; civil war, 213, 809; Jalalabad, 144; Kabul, 142, 231; Mazar-e-Sharif, 245; Soviet presence in, 131–33, 145, 214, 231, 344, 461, 466, 536; US presence in, xxii, 130–33, 138–45, 147–49, 190, 199–203, 209, 211, 213, 260–61, 278, 332, 340, 344, 392, 419, 453–55, 461, 606–7, 618–19, 645, 656, 662, 664–67, 806

  Africa, 31, 208, 285, 337, 417–18, 575, 604, 740; India’s presence in, 622; North, 216; slavery and, 211, 415, 431, 732, 746; sub-Saharan, 298, 470, 492; US presence in, 193, 211, 213, 251–52, 278, 279, 331, 415, 619; Western, 730. See also individual countries

  African National Congress (ANC), 264, 331, 647

  Afzal Guru, Mohammad, 364–73, 376–407, 458, 465, 550, 654–67, 796, 804, 820–23, 832, 912n11, 930n5

  Agarwals family, 682

  Aggarwal, Anil, 489

  Ahangar, Shakeel Ahmed, 609–10

  Ahmed, Sheikh Mukhtar, 453

  Ahmed, Tariq, 376

  Ahmedabad Mill Owners’ Association, 757

  Akbar, Mohammed, 394, 400–401

  Akhil Bharatiya Sahitya Parishad, 422

  Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), 421, 813–14, 822

  Akhlaq, Mohammad, 811–12

  Al Badr, 459

  Albert, Michael, 189

  Albright, Madeleine, 129, 130, 138, 199, 415

  Alexander, Michelle: The New Jim Crow, 772

  Al-Jazeera, 245

  Allahabad High Court, 841

  Allende, Salvador, 192, 638

  All-India Achhutodhar Committee, 704

  All-India Anti-Terrorist Front, 369, 661

  All-India Anti-Untouchability Manifesto, 704, 745

  All India Defense Committee, 386

  All-India Depressed Classes Conference, 701, 745, 751, 755, 945n188, 947n202

  All India People’s Resistance Forum, 146

  All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference Party (India), 437

  All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), 385, 437–38

  Al-Qaeda, 243, 255–57, 295, 330, 332, 350, 667, 809, 901n11; Al-Qaeda versus al-Fayda, 201 (See also War on Terror)

  Alsafa, 391

  Alternative Radio, 271, 329

  Alvarez, Claude, 310

  Amarnath pilgrimage, 434–35

  Amarnath Shrine Board, 483

  Amarula Bhadhu Mitrula Committee (Committee of Relatives and Friends of Martyrs), 574

  Ambani, Mukesh, xv–xvi, xxi, 411, 475, 621–22, 632, 650, 652, 678, 682, 926n6. See also Antilla

  Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji, 648–49, 786, 814, 817–19, 830, 939n70, 945n181, 947n203, 947n209, 950n242, 951n245, 953n275; Annihilation of Caste, xxii, 668–785, 978; Autobiographical Notes, 777; The Buddha and His Dhamma, 784, 945n181; “Castes in India,” 674, 744, 938n67; “The Communal Deadlock and a Way to Solve It,” 765; relationship with Gandhi, xxii, 604, 676, 687–94, 696, 698–99, 712–13, 726, 729, 740, 742–44, 749, 754–57, 760, 766–77, 779–81, 799, 825, 937n53, 938n56, 947n202, 950n234; Riddles in Hinduism, 742; “A Scheme of Political Safeguards for the Protection of the Depressed Classes in the Future Constitution of a Self-Governing India,” 767; States and Minorities document, 783; views on Adivasis, 695, 763–65; views on caste system, xxii, 668–785, 797, 938n67, 940n86, 948n222; What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables, 756

  Ambedkarites, 649, 696, 699, 799, 813–16, 830

  Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle (APSC), 813–14

  Ambedkar Students Association (ASA), 814

  American International Group (AIG), 619

  American Sociological Association, 329, 796

  Amherst, Jeffery, 34, 415

  Amte, Baba, 526

  Anand, Mulk Raj: Untouchable, 945n188

  Anand Marriage (Amendment) Act, 952n263

  Anatolia, 409–10, 916n1

  Anderson, Warren, 136

  Andhra Pradesh (India), 85, 185, 295, 305, 349, 351–52, 354, 491, 496–97, 501, 512, 525, 526, 532, 534, 541, 543, 555, 569, 574, 597, 602, 637, 682, 791, 926n13, 931n4; Chunduru, 931; Karamchedu, 931n4; Polavaram, 574; Srikakulam, 512; Warangal, 522–23

  Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC), 909n4

  Andhra Pradesh Irrigation II scheme, 44

  Andrews, Charles Freer, 735

  Anglo-American (company), 338

  Anglo-Boer War. See South African War (Anglo-Boer War/White Man’s War)

  Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 894n44

  Antilla, xv, 621–22, 652–53

  Anti-Privatization Forum, 340

  Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), 459, 460, 807

  Apte, Naranyan, 712

  Arabian Sea, 38, 64, 148

  Arab Spring, 809

  Arcelor Mittal, 678

  Archana Prakashan, 422

  Argentina, 202, 224, 250, 275, 285, 339–40. See also Patagonia

  Armed Forces Chaplains Board (US), 647

  Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA, India), 297, 349, 351, 443, 589, 614, 626, 826

  Armenian genocide, 408–9, 416–17, 419, 431, 466, 488, 916n1

  Arnove, Anthony, 189

  Arthur Andersen, 224, 286

  Arunachal Pradesh (India), 574, 627, 679

  Arundhatiyars, 700

  Arya Bhats, 702

  Aryans, 757, 781, 817

  Arya Samaj, 688, 691, 700, 703–4, 706

  Aseemanand, Swami, 802, 807

  Ashcroft, John, 210, 258, 334

  Ashrawi, Hanan, 355

  Asia, xv, 193, 213, 251, 279, 337, 417–18; Central, 200, 622; South, 67, 148, 350; Southeast, 148, 215, 285, 638. See also individual countries; individual countries and regions

  Asian Development Bank, 337

  Asiya, 609

  Aspen Institute, 636

  Assam (India), 13, 297, 354, 555, 585, 589, 679, 763, 826, 949n228; Guwahati, 448; Narayanpur, 560–62, 584; Nellie, 805

  Associated Press, 261, 681

  Association of Parents of Disappeared People (APDP), 295

  Ati-Shudras, 675–76, 702

  Attenborough, Richard: Gandhi (film), 689

  Auschwitz concentration camp, 212

  Australia, 33, 66, 94, 194, 251, 356, 358, 360, 474, 490, 730, 802; Truganina, 418. See also Tasmania (Australia)

  Australian National University: Center for Resource and Environmental Studies, 66

  Ayyankali, 687, 819

  Azhar, Maulana Masood, 376, 388

  Aziz, Sheikh Abdul, 438

  Baad Raahat Kendra, 313, 326

  Ba’ath Party (Iraq), 257, 342

  Baba, Ghazi, 370–71, 376, 388, 395, 657

  Babri Majid attack (1992), xvii, 19, 93, 166, 232, 301–2, 304, 422, 452, 455–56, 470, 482, 785, 801, 805, 863, 868

  Babylon, 242, 260


  Backward Classes Commission, 681

  Bagdikian, Ben: The Media Monopoly, 895n2

  Baghdad Archaeological Museum, 903n26

  Bagram Air Force Base, 245

  Bahishkrit Bharat (Excluded India), 753

  Bahugana, Sunderlal, 123

  Bahujan Samaj Party (People’s Socialist Party, BSP, India), 169, 649, 677, 950n242

  Bailadila Range, 532–33

  Bajrang Dal, 146, 161–62, 165, 169, 303, 420, 474, 497, 611, 781, 802–3, 867, 889; Babri Majid attack (1992), xvii, 19, 93, 166, 232, 301–2, 304, 422, 452, 455–56, 470, 482, 785, 801, 805, 863, 868

  Bajrangi, Babu, 413–14, 424, 449, 451–52, 792–93

  Baker, James A., III, 147

  Balagopal, K., 496, 549

  Balakian, Peter, 424; The Burning Tigris, 417

  Balakrishnan, K. G., 936n38

  Baldwin, James, 279

  Balfour Declaration, 194

  Balkans, 200. See also individual countries

  Balmiki Colony, 748–49, 764, 778

  Balmikis, 748–49, 778. See also Dalits

  Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel, 147

  Bandit Queen, xxiii–xxiv, 836–60

  Banerjee, Kaustav, 599

  Banerjee, Mamata, 597

  Banerjee, Sumanta: In the Wake of Nazalbari, 593–94

  Bangladesh, 31, 72, 84, 190, 267, 288, 440, 553, 637, 702, 931n4; Barisal, 739; Dhaka, 191

  Banias, 679, 682, 782

  Banjara people, 323

  Bano, Iqbal, 567

  Barclays, 328

  Bargi Dam, 29, 44, 53, 96–97, 100, 183, 313, 315–16, 321, 323

  Barsamian, Araxie, 408–9

  Barsamian, David, 409

  Basaguda camp, 529, 534

  Basava, 687

  Bashiruddin, Mufti, 666

  Bathani Tola massacre (1996), 931n3

  Batla House, 458–59

  Battle of Koregaon, 741

  Bayernwerk, 99, 102

  BBC, 131, 246, 250, 259, 273, 477, 519, 563, 651, 669

  Bechtel, 81, 224, 268, 278, 286, 358–60, 905n67

  Bedi, Bobby, 837, 847–48

  Bedi, Kiran, 638

  Beej Bachao Andolan, 123, 864

  Bengal, 110, 585, 688, 706, 783; Noakhali, 780

  Bengal Famine, 298

  Bennett Coleman and Company, 682

  Berger, John, 187

  Berlin Wall, 466

  Berlusconi, Silvio, 207, 265

  Berne Declaration, 346

  Berreman, Gerald D., 933n14

  Besant, Annie, 708

  Béteille, Andre, 933n14

  Beyoncé, xvi

  Bhabha Atomic Research Center: Health, Environment and Safety Group, 3

  Bhagavad Gita, 145, 509, 707, 712, 729, 954n276

  Bhai, Bhaiji, 72–73, 125

  Bhakra Nangal Dam, 236

  Bhakti movement, 687, 697, 699, 706, 742, 780

  Bhambatha Rebellion, 718–20

  Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), 83

  Bharatiya Achhut Mahasabha (Parliament of Indian Untouchables), 687

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, India), xx, 161, 170, 172, 312, 375, 420, 438, 459, 475, 533, 616, 654, 656, 665, 811–13, 816, 824, 826–27, 832, 864, 950n242; Babri Majid attack (1992), xvii, 19, 93, 166, 232, 301–2, 304, 422, 452, 455–56, 470, 482, 785, 801, 805, 863, 868; in Chhattisgarh, 532; Congress Party and, xvii, 18–19, 86–87, 166, 302, 304, 316, 333–35, 471, 474, 476, 482, 553, 796–97, 821, 911n28; Gujarat massacre (2002), 473; “Hang Afzal” campaign, 369, 820–21; harassment of Roy, 611; Hindutva/Islamophobia, 168, 444, 470, 481, 797, 799, 865; Kanhaiya Kumar attack, 825; Modi and, 164, 412, 424, 473, 474, 793, 803, 806–10; Naxalites and, 548, 553; People’s Democratic Party and, 823; People’s Socialist Party and, 169; protest of Enron power plant, 86; RSS and, 420–22, 800–801, 867; Sangh Parivar and, 165, 801, 867, 868; women’s wing, 611. See also Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Self-Help Group, RSS)

  Bharatiya Jan Sangh, 800

  Bharatiya Kushta Nivarak Sangh, 422

  Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, 421

  Bharat Ratna, 946n196

  Bharti Airtel, 678

  Bhartiyas family, 682

  Bhattacharya, Anirban, 823, 830

  Bhave, Acharya Vinoba, 951n247

  Bhotmange, Surekha, 669–71, 746

  BHP Billiton, 501

  Bhumkal Rebellion, 541–42, 550, 551–52, 555–56, 558, 574

  Bhushan, Prashant, 150–53, 155, 460

  Bi, Kausar, 793, 807

  Bihar (India), 90, 176, 235, 304, 328, 346, 491, 512, 524, 526, 555, 592, 685, 775, 812, 865, 936n44; Bathani Tola, 931n3; Champaran, 736–37; Jamui, 565

  Biko, Steve, 647, 813

  bin Laden, Osama, 130, 135–36, 168, 190, 203, 244, 257–58, 666–67, 824

  Birla, G. D., 736, 753, 773, 775

  Birla Company, 239, 749. See also Grasim Rayon Factory

  Birla House, 711, 749

  Bitta, M. S., 369, 661

  Black Consciousness movement, 647, 735

  Black Panthers, 646–47

  Black Power movement, 279, 646–47

  Blair, Tony, 139, 180, 226, 244, 247–49, 260, 358

  Blix, Hans, 357

  Blum, William, 189

  Bobbitt, Lorena, 856

  Bodhghat Dam, 565–66

  Boers, 716–19

  Boer War. See South African War (Anglo-Boer War/White Man’s War)

  Bole Resolution (India), 752

  Bolivia, 20, 86, 193, 202, 349, 362, 633; Cochabamba, 81–82, 224, 359

  Bollywood, xvi, 299, 428–29, 434, 447, 457, 477, 483, 810

  Bombay Municipal Corporation, 951n245

  Border Security Force, 370, 372, 438, 493, 536, 558, 576

  Bosnia, 5, 140, 168, 209, 412

  Botha, Louis, 732

  Bourke-White, Margaret, 775, 947

  Brahmins, 120, 465, 668, 674, 687–88, 702–3, 711, 723–24, 739, 751–53, 756–57, 761, 763, 773, 782, 784, 821, 937n51, 946n196, 947n203, 954n276; Ambedkar’s views on, 699–700, 743, 750, 764; Brahminism, 699–700, 705, 760, 764, 776, 785, 797, 819, 823, 831; Chitpavan, 741; Dwij, 527, 531–32; Gandhi’s views on, 678, 748, 777–78, 946n189; socioeconomic power of, 679–83, 935n29

  Brahmo Samaj, 688

  Brazil: Porto Alegre, 221, 284, 343; Rio de Janeiro, xv

  Bretton Woods, 635–36

  Briggs, Harold: Briggs Plan, 533

  British Army, 194, 741

  British India: Berar Province, 761; Bombay Presidency, 741, 756, 761; Yeola, 701, 777; Central Legislative Assembly, 776; Central Provinces, 761; Madras Presidency, 680, 688, 941n97

  British Indian Association in Johannesburg, 943n133

  British Malaya, 533

  British Parliament, 730; House of Commons, 719

  British Viceroy’s Executive Council, 689, 783

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 257, 635

  Buddha, 696, 784, 953n275

  Buddhism, 30, 163, 301, 474, 607, 669, 687, 697, 705, 707, 799, 819, 867, 932n6, 951n247, 952n263; Dalit Buddhists, 669, 799, 932n6; Navayana (Fourth Way), 784; Sakya, 688

  Burma/Myanmar, 5, 84

  Bush, George H. W., 147, 197–98, 206, 255, 332, 357, 894n1

  Bush, George W., xxii, 116, 148, 266–67, 275, 279, 284, 358, 377, 465, 495, 804; 2004 election, 261, 334–35, 796; Enron and, 89, 207; War on Terror and, 127, 134–41, 147, 167–68, 170, 188, 199–200, 209, 211, 213, 224–26, 239, 243–45, 247–50, 252–53, 256–57, 260–63, 269–70, 290, 334–35, 457, 461, 901n33, 902n11

  Butt, Maqbool, 379–80, 654, 821, 914n7

  California (US): Berkeley, 346; San Diego, 261

  Cambodia, 135, 140, 193, 213–14, 218, 413, 553

  Canadian International Development Agency, 328

  Cannes Film Festival, 847

  Cape Colony (British colony), 732

  Carlyle Group, 147, 168

  Carmichael, Stokely, 277

  Carnegie, Andrew: The Gospel of Wealth, 738

 
Carnegie Foundation, 634

  CBS News, 243, 255

  Censor Board (India), 847, 850

  Center for Public Integrity, 268

  Center for Responsive Politics, 268

  Central Bureau of Investigation (India), 366, 459, 793, 806

  Central Industrial Security Force (India), 536, 576

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, US), 131–32, 135, 145–46, 192, 257, 344, 358, 632, 634, 638–39, 666

  Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), 493, 536, 560, 576, 591–92

  Central Water Commission, 30, 38, 93

  Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), 227, 680–81, 935n29

  Chalabi, Ahmed, 358

  Chaliyar River, 240

  Chambal Valley, xxiii

  Chambhar caste, 773, 947n202, 951n245

  Chand, Ashok, 387–88

  Chandra, Bipan, 936n41

  Chandra, Uday, 950n228

  Chandu, 518–21, 538, 567

  Chase Manhattan Bank, 635–36

  Chasi Mulya Adivasi Sangh, 586, 601

  Chattisgarh Mukti Morcha, 123

  Chavadar Tank, 752–54

  Chavez, Hugo, 224

  Chechnya, 131, 290, 341, 354

  Cheney, Dick, 148, 249, 334, 359

  Chenoy, Kamal Mitra, 888n14

  Chetna Natya Manch, 537, 541, 545, 551

  Chhattisgarh (India), 235, 281–82, 297, 424, 426–28, 449, 470, 477, 491, 497–501, 513–14, 541, 555, 585, 598, 627, 807, 826, 864–66, 927n19; Abujhmad, 520, 526, 537, 556, 558–59; Bastar, xx, 504, 519, 526–27, 533, 545, 557, 565, 574, 599–600, 615, 625–26, 630, 788, 796; Jagdalpur, 516, 536, 560–61, 631, 828; Polekaya, 547; Bhairamgarh, 533; Bilaspur, 494, 506, 589; Dalli Rajhara, 280; Dantewada, 476, 492, 494, 503, 511, 515, 517, 533, 535, 584, 591–93, 602, 926n13; Lohandiguda, 504, 532, 536–37, 566, 631; Darba Division: Gumiapal, 557; Gangalaur, 534, 557; Jagargonda: Surpangooden, 558; Kaika, 557; Kanker, 516, 543, 558, 584; Kotrapal, 548, 550, 557; Raipur, 280, 515, 539, 547; Rajnandgaon, 494, 506, 558, 584, 589; Takilod, 558; Vechapal, 557

  Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Chhattisgarh Liberation Front), 123, 280–82, 297, 585, 864–66

  Chhattisgarh Police, 535, 539

  Chhattisgarh Public Security Act (India), 349, 506, 585, 631

  Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (India), 506, 539, 585, 631

  Chicago Boys, 638

  Chidambaram, P., 468, 489–506, 514, 788, 821; “Poor Rich Countries,” 579

  Chile, 135, 192–93, 269, 349, 358, 638, 892n10. See also Patagonia

  Chilika Lake, 233–34, 303

  China, xv, xxiv, 3, 20, 35, 40, 83, 140, 188, 217, 247, 267, 413, 477, 493, 522, 553–54, 595, 604, 623, 636, 650, 652, 722; Cultural Revolution, 602; dams in, 41, 47, 871n30; Great Leap Forward, 602; internally displaced people, 427; Sino–Indian War, 13; Tiananmen Square, 41