Chinese Revolution, 531, 553, 595
Chittisinghpura massacre (2000), 294, 803
Chomsky, Noam, 189, 206–20, 331, 894n2
Choudhury, Chitrangada: “PESA, Left-Wing Extremism and Governance,” 582, 598
Christianity, 30, 141, 163, 190, 275, 334, 337, 474, 555, 652, 687, 702, 703–4, 723, 740, 744, 749, 752, 765–66, 798, 800, 826, 916n1; Ambedkar and, 777, 784; attacks on, 450, 474, 600, 802–3, 807; converts to, 672, 687, 748, 799, 932n6; Dalit Christians, 450, 474, 600, 672, 702–3, 799, 807, 932n6; Gandhi and, 707, 709, 725, 730, 779; Syrian Christians, 668, 751
Chugtai, Ismat: “A Pair of Hands,” 940n83
Chuhras, 747
Churchill, Winston, 194, 719
Church of England, 519, 723
Climate Change Conference, 501, 506
Clinton, William, 116, 149, 335, 415; visit to India (2000), 77, 79, 114, 390, 803
CNN, 198, 223, 242, 249–50, 259, 471; CNN-IBN, 370–71, 405, 622
Coalition of the Willing, 244
Cobras, 493, 536, 577
Coca-Cola, 19, 134, 163, 325, 469, 616, 638, 641
Cokhamela, 687
Cold War, 4, 141, 486, 636, 650
Colombia, 193, 354
Colorado (US): Denver, 902n11, 916n2
Columbia University, 674, 744, 945n181
Columbus, Christopher, 212, 415, 418
Columbus Day (US), 212, 415
Committee for the Defense and Release of Saibaba, 794
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, 268
Committee for Union and Progress (Ottoman Empire), 419–20, 424, 466
Commonwealth Games, 508, 571
Communist Party of India (CPI), 531, 594–96, 648, 756, 760, 762, 811, 823, 947n209
Communist Party of India (CPI, Maoist), 427, 490–91, 495, 526, 565, 569, 593–94, 600, 602–3, 765, 788, 790, 791. See also Naxalites
Communist Party of India (CPI(M), Marxist), 505, 594–96, 654, 665, 762
Communist Party of India (CPI(ML), Marxist-Leninist), 491, 525–26. See also Naxalites
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), 894n44
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), 302, 636
Congo Free State. See Belgian Congo
Congress Party. See Indian National Congress
Constituent Assembly of India, 694–95, 783, 938n67, 939n75
Cornell University, 342, 649
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), 515–16, 737
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 632, 634–36
Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College, 516
Cuba, 5, 140, 213, 256, 330
Cultural Revolution (China), 602
Czech Republic: Prague, 115
Dabholkar, Narendra, 812
Dachau concentration camp, 212
Dainik Bhaskar, 627
Dainik Jagran, 682
Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 648, 686, 937n48
Dalit Panthers, 647, 762, 782, 819
Dalit Power movement, 647
Dalits, 90, 120, 163, 301, 356, 424, 426, 457, 490, 601, 624, 649, 652, 666, 669–70, 679, 682–87, 698, 747, 763, 774, 785, 798, 813–19, 830, 867, 934n18, 938n62; attacks on, 450, 474, 600, 670–72, 746, 796, 802, 807, 931nn3–4, 932n9; Dalit Buddhists, 669, 799, 932n6; Dalit Christians, 450, 474, 600, 672, 702–3, 799, 807, 932n6; Dalit movements, xxii, 647–48, 671, 673–74, 693, 762, 782, 819, 933n13; Dalit Muslims, 672, 701–3, 799, 932n6, 940n84; Dalit Sikhs, 672, 702–3, 799, 932n6, 933n10; definition, 864; displaced by dams, 33, 53, 58–59, 95, 100–101, 117, 155, 183, 234, 429, 449; Gandhi’s views on, 725, 749; Maoists and, 596; role in Gujarat attacks, 162, 175; role in politics, 677, 783, 936n38, 946n190, 947n209, 948n222, 950n242; attacks on, 781–82; treatment by the Indian state, 275, 296, 349, 555, 586, 772, 789, 826, 932n6. See also Scheduled Castes (SCs); Untouchables
Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, 560
Dandakaranya forest, 501, 517, 524–26, 530–31, 535, 540, 543, 551, 554–56, 560, 564, 566, 570, 598–99, 643
Dandekar, Ajay: “PESA, Left-Wing Extremism and Governance,” 582, 598
Dange, S. A., 648, 756, 763, 947n209; Marxism and Ancient Indian Culture, 757
Darul-uloom Deobandi Islamic seminary, 630
Das, Samarendra: Out of This Earth, 500
December 13th (film), 383, 389, 395, 655–57. See also Indian Parliament attack (12/13/2001)
“Declaration of Empathy,” 674
Deendayal Research Institute, 422
Defense Policy Board (US), 199, 267–68
Delhi (India), xiv, xxiv, 29, 34, 62, 77, 85, 103, 159, 177, 191, 368, 370, 387, 398, 400–401, 406, 496, 553, 566, 591, 608–9, 613, 654, 657, 711, 796, 807, 809–11, 823–25, 859; activism in, 146, 153; Balmiki workers in, 749; Bandit Queen screening in, 836, 847, 856; Commonwealth Games in, 508–9; industry in, 158; Jamia Nagar, 458; Khan Market, 477; media industries in, 681; New Delhi, 87, 150, 206, 227, 334, 375, 390, 437, 439, 560, 660, 681, 870n16, 914n8, 932n7, 949n228; Jantar Mantar, 380, 384, 386, 537, 570–73, 601; Paharganj, 57; poverty in, 117–18; RDF in, 791; Sikh massacre (1984), 166, 232, 297, 412, 474, 805; Supreme Court in, 26, 424; violence in, 448, 458, 570, 672, 803–4
Delhi High Court, 158, 377, 384, 389, 393–97, 405–6, 656–57, 683, 820, 913n1, 916n29
Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), 629, 636
Delhi Police, 153, 382, 397, 822, 825; Special Cell, 363–64, 366–67, 376, 381, 384–85, 393–95, 399–400, 404–7, 458–59, 655, 663, 804
Delhi University, 364, 381–83, 402, 787, 794, 804, 864, 949n231; Ramlal Anand College, 787
Democracy Now, 271, 329
Democratic Party (US), 276, 335–36, 357, 434, 796
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 412, 415–17, 473, 487, 649, 730
Desai, Mahadev, 946n189
Desai, Morarji, 29, 949n231
Desai, Valji G., 942n129
Devi, Phoolan, xxiv, 836–60. See also Bandit Queen
Dhamma, 784, 945n181
Dhar, M. K.: Open Secrets, 407
Dhasal, Namdeo, 762, 782
Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR), 628–29
Dink, Hrant, 408–10, 466, 488
Dink, Rakel, 488
Disturbed Areas Act (India), 443
Doke, Joseph: M. K. Gandhi, 731–32
Dominican Republic, 84, 135, 193
Dongria Kondh, 489–90, 519, 578, 630
Dravidians, 817–18
Du Bois, W. E. B.: The Souls of Black Folk, 723
Durban Post Office, 715, 752
Durga Puja, 369, 818
Dutt, Barkha, 405, 587
Eastern Frontier Rifles, 563, 577
East India Company, 115, 426
East Pakistan, 553, 664. See also Bangladesh
East Timor, 257, 290
Economic and Political Weekly, 599
Economic Regeneration Programme, 874n83
Egypt, 195, 258
El Salvador, 135, 140, 193, 213
the Emergency (India, 1975–77), 10, 585, 587, 801
England, 262, 302, 413, 519, 569, 573, 669, 706, 717, 951n245; London, 246, 257, 337, 360, 489, 712, 714, 729, 735, 744, 766, 768; Penshurst, 736. See also Great Britain; United Kingdom
English (language), 20, 57, 103, 110, 163, 165, 227, 287, 388, 407, 474, 524, 627, 681–82, 690, 715, 718–19, 729, 757, 787–88, 938n56, 942n129
Enron, 80, 86–89, 99, 165, 207, 222, 224, 286–87, 302, 311, 359–60, 468, 471, 876n21
Esquire, 843, 854
Essar Group, 427, 501, 622–23, 630
Essar Steel, 532–33, 536, 926n13
Euphrates River, 242, 260
Europe, 148, 213, 476, 490, 495, 622, 636, 650, 686, 697, 720, 740, 809, 947n207; Eastern, 262; fascism in, xxiv, 212, 369, 418–19, 710, 765; imperialism of, 221, 284, 339–40, 414, 417–19, 426, 580, 604; relationship with the US, 249, 251, 332, 336, 735; Western, 676; Zionism in, 194. See also individual countries and regions
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sp; European Union, 175, 763
Evian, 76, 80
Evidence Act (India), 392
Export Development Canada, 328
Facebook, 666, 808
Faiz, Faiz Ahmed, 488, 819; “Hum Dekhenge” (“We Will Witness the Day”), 567
Farakka Barrage, 72
Farooq, Mirwaiz Umar, 443–44
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, US), 127, 135, 140, 268
Federal Communications Commission (FCC, US), 266
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), 813–14, 832
First Round Table Conference, 689, 750, 766, 768
First War of Independence (1857 Mutiny), 570, 705
Fischer, Louis, 772–73
Fisher, Donald, 929n52
Five Member Group (FMG), 52, 872n52
Forbes, 338, 678
Ford Foundation, 342, 616, 634, 636–38, 641–42, 646, 648–49, 651, 763; Ramon Magsaysay Emergent Leadership Award
Ford Motor Company, 302
Forest Rights Act (India), 478, 598
Fox News, 245, 457
France, 34, 245, 249, 262, 328, 336, 417–18, 644, 740, 850, 942n114. See also French Revolution
Franks, Tommy, 262, 265
Friedman, Milton, 638
Friedman, Thomas, 200; The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 201
Friends of the Earth, 46
Frontline, xix, 156, 549
Fund for the Republic/Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 636
Gaekwad, Sayajirao, 743–45
Galeano, Eduardo, 406
Gallup International, 262, 332
Ganapathy, Comrade, 491
Gandhamardhan hills, 585
Gandhi (film), 689
Gandhi, Devdas, 736, 946n196
Gandhi, Indira, 10, 18, 166, 173, 474, 585, 587, 805
Gandhi, Lingaraja, 945n188
Gandhi, Maneka, 57
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 17, 108, 173, 182, 274–75, 428, 430–31, 477, 494, 498, 526, 540, 604, 613, 616, 628, 673, 686, 706, 710, 738, 741, 753, 759, 776, 785, 861, 866, 938n59, 943n137, 944n166, 946n196, 951n247; assassination of, 711–12, 773–74, 801; “Equal Distribution,” 737–38; Gandhi (film), 689; Hind Swaraj, 694, 729–31, 944n156; “The Ideal Bhangi,” 777–78; Mahatma title, 707, 712–14, 732, 736, 739–40; “My Second Experience in Gaol,” 721–22; Poona Pact, 772–75, 782, 950n242, 951n245; “The Pyramid vs. the Oceanic Circle,” 690; relationship with Ambedkar, 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; relationship with Nehru, 28, 722–23; Salt March to Dandi, 164, 290, 308, 344–45, 768, 864; Satyagraha in South Africa, 719; in South Africa, 714–37, 742–43, 757–58, 942n113; views on Adivasis, 763, 766; views on big dams, 939n76; views on Christianity, 707, 709, 725, 730, 779; views on Khilafat movement, 708–9; views on Ram Rajya, 697, 707; views on satyagraha, 594, 601, 659, 708–9, 717, 719, 724–27, 733, 736–37, 751–52, 755–56, 768–70, 867, 942n129, 947n202, 947n207; views on the caste system, 676, 678, 690–92, 713, 725, 745, 747–49, 751–52, 755–56, 769–75, 777–80, 864, 937n52, 946n189. See also Non-Cooperation Movement
Gandhi, Rahul, 516–17, 578, 690, 946n190
Gandhi, Rajiv, 4, 145, 166, 422, 805, 850
Gandhi, Sonia, 334, 478, 577–78
Gandhi, Varun, 481
Gandhians, 599, 601, 604, 612–13, 639
Ganga River, 72, 469
Gates, Bill, 634, 640
Gates Foundation, 641
Gawde, Suklal, 561
Geelani, Bismillah, 394, 657
Geelani, Syed A. R., 228, 364, 367, 376–77, 381–88, 392–96, 400, 406–7, 437, 443–44, 458, 655–57, 804, 864, 930n3
General Electric (GE), 82–83, 359–60
Geneva Convention, 245, 261
German Ministry of Economic
Cooperation and Development, 102
Germany, 5, 59, 99, 102, 106, 249, 262, 336, 346, 418, 431, 651, 672, 717, 760–61, 903n35; Auschwitz, 212; Berlin, 466–67; Dachau, 212; Dresden, 415; genocide in Southwest Africa, 417; Hamburg, 415; Nazi, 34, 93, 164, 175–76, 212, 369, 421, 424, 450, 710
Ghadar Party (Revolt Party, India), 705–6, 941n95
Ghana, 288, 556
Ghandy, Anuradha, 830
Ghandy, Kobad, 506
Gilani, Iftikhar, 385, 407; My Days in Prison, 386
Girishankar, Navin, 928n46
Girni Kamgar Union, 756–57
Goa (India), 57, 164, 168, 555, 630, 826; Bhatpal, 559
The God of Small Things, xvii, xxii–xxiii, 7, 110–11, 156
Godrej (company), 636, 648
Godrej, Jansheyd N., 636
Godse, Nathuram, 773; Why I Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, 711–12
Goering, Hermann, 261
Goldenweiser, A. A., 744
Goldman, Emma, 723
Golwalkar, M. S., 800; We, or, Our Nationhood Defined, 420–21, 450, 710
Gondi (language), 523–24, 538, 541, 543, 546, 562
Gond people, 513, 526, 538, 764, 818
Goodman, Amy, 189
Good Morning America, 265
Goswami, Arnab, 460, 587
Goswami, Rajiv, 949n231
Government of India Act (India), 932n6, 949n228
Govindacharya, K. N., 476
Grasim Rayon Factory, 118, 239–40
Great Britain, 20, 41, 104, 168, 192, 263, 351–52, 358, 669, 686, 750, 767, 942n114, 944n166, 946n190; British colonialism, 16–17, 115, 281, 290, 302, 330, 345, 417–18, 427, 451, 513, 526, 533, 541, 570–71, 583, 677, 680, 688–89, 701, 703–10, 712, 714–21, 725–26, 730, 732–37, 739, 741–43, 756, 761, 764–65, 768, 770, 776–77, 798, 800, 817, 943n132, 949n224 (See also individual colonies); creation of Mandatory Palestine, 194; in War on Terror, 180, 198, 225, 242–51, 259, 357, 903n35; in WWII, 942n122. See also England; United Kingdom; Wales
Grenada, 140, 213, 256
Greyhounds, 493
Grievance Redressal Committee, 57, 325
Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, 245, 352
the Guardian, 837
Guatemala, 40, 47, 140, 193, 213
Guha, Ramachandra: India after Gandhi, 428; India before Gandhi, 944n156
Gujarat (India), xiv, 14, 29, 33, 167, 231, 275, 345, 481, 682–83, 688, 703, 714, 774, 865, 910n12, 918n26, 934n18; 2001 earthquake, 89; Ahmedabad, 42, 71, 161, 423, 448, 449, 458, 757, 805, 807, 809, 945n188; Juhapura, 450; anti-Muslim pogrom (2002), xxi, 161–64, 166, 168–70, 172, 175, 190, 222–23, 232, 274, 285–86, 296–97, 300, 302, 350, 392, 411–14, 422–23, 428, 431, 450–51, 455–56, 465, 473–75, 497, 611, 615, 628, 656, 781–82, 792–93, 796, 805–6, 808, 866, 890n47; Baroda/Vadodara, 46, 56, 61, 71, 160, 168, 743–44, 872n52; Bharuch, 38, 64; Bhavnagar, 748; BJP/RSS leaders, 161–62, 172, 421–24, 451, 473, 553, 710, 803, 806; dams in, xii–xiv, 37–39, 42, 44, 46, 49–57, 60–72, 97, 117, 236, 566, 628; Dang, 802; Ferkuwa, 46–47; Gandhinagar, 71, 774; Godhra, 160–61, 164, 169, 294, 781, 805; Gora, 38, 62; Jetpur, 322; Junagadh, 826; Kevadiya Colony, xiii–xv; Kheda, 42, 71, 886n1; Kothie, xiii, xv, 60; Kutch, 42, 50, 67, 70–71, 871n36; Mehsana, 42, 71, 174, 302, 615; Modassa, 807; Mokhdi, 873n60; Porbandar, 713, 740; Rajpipla, 61; Saurashtra, 42, 67, 70–71, 871n36; Sikka, 25; state violence in, 233, 235, 295, 303, 350, 423; sunrise belt, 118; Surat, 911n12, 919n26; Umergaon, 303; Undava, 72–73; Vadodara, 886n1
Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 951n247
Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act (India), 774, 951n247
Gujarati (language), 676, 690, 718–19, 729, 938n56, 942n129, 946n189
Gujarati, Wali, 161–62
Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation, 952n259
Gulf War (first), 188, 197–99, 248, 257, 358, 471. See also Operation Desert Storm
Gupta, Dipankar, 933n13
Guru, Afsan, 364, 376–77, 384, 394, 655–56, 804
Guru, Ayyankali and Sree, 687
Guru, Shaukat Hussain, 376–77, 382, 393–96, 400, 458, 6
55–56, 804
The Hague, 79–80
Hai, Abdul, 610–11
Haksar, Nandita, 364, 386
Halbi (language), 524, 541
Halliburton, 148, 249, 286, 359–60
Halliday, Denis, 288, 414
Hamas, 197, 643
“Hamle Ke Sau Din” (“Hundred Days of the Attack”), 388
Hamza, Abu. See Mohammad, Mohammad Yasin Fateh (Abu Hamza)
Hanuman, 22, 509, 863
Harihar, Swami Achhutanand, 687, 705
Harijan (newspaper), 774–75
Harijans. See Untouchables
Harijan Sevak Sangh (Harijan Service Society), 774–76
Harsud Doobvasi Sangharsha Morcha, 321, 324
Harvard University, 342, 507, 579; Business School, 649; Mahindra Humanities Center, 649
Haryana (India), 68, 615, 685, 936n44; Gannaur, 322; Gurgaon, 103; Jhajjar, 931n4
Hashimpura massacre (1987), 793
Hazare, Anna, 612, 614–15, 617, 638–39, 924n2; Team Anna, 613, 616
Hazratbal shrine, 440, 607
Hedgewar, K. B., 420, 710
Herero people, 417, 427, 431
Herman, Ed, 189, 894n2
Himachal Pradesh (India), 328; Shimla, 452
Himalayas, 434, 469
Hindi (language), 280, 293, 329, 332, 477, 511, 517, 519, 524, 539, 541–42, 627, 681–82
The Hindu, 590, 612, 654, 682, 928n46
Hindu Code Bill (India), 695, 938n68
Hindu Dharma Jagran Manch, 422, 802
Hindu Mahasabha Party (All-India Hindu Grand Assembly, India), 705, 711, 764, 773–74, 951n245
Hindu Marriage Act (India), 938n68, 952n263
Hindu Munnani, 940n84
Hindu nationalism, xviii, xxiv, 10–11, 86, 171, 180, 275, 420, 446, 459–60, 470, 710, 729, 757, 774, 800, 802, 864, 941n92; Babri Majid attack (1992), xvii, 19, 93, 166, 232, 301–2, 304, 422, 452, 455–56, 470, 482, 785, 801, 805, 863, 868; Gandhi assassination and, 774; in government, xxi, 333, 774, 911n28, 941n95; Gujarat pogrom (2002), xxi, 161–64, 166, 168–70, 172, 175, 190, 222–23, 232, 274, 285–86, 296–97, 300, 302, 350, 392, 411–14, 422–23, 428, 431, 450–51, 455–56, 465, 473–75, 497, 611, 615, 628, 656, 781–82, 792–93, 796, 805–6, 808, 866, 891n47; neoliberalism and, xxi; views on Untouchable votes, 702, 781, 798–99, 940n84. See also Advani, Lal Krishna (L. K.); Bajrang Dal; Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, India); Hindu Rashtra; Hindutva; Modi, Narendra; Ram Mandir; Rashtriya Janata Dal (National People’s Party, RJD, India); Rath Yatra (Chariots’ Journey); Sangh Parivar; Shiv Sena; Togadia, Pravin; Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council, VHP)
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