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Mallah, Vikram, 841–42, 854
Mandal, B. P., 678, 949n231. See also
Mandal Commission
Mandal, Jogendranath, 688, 783
Mandal Commission, 866, 949n231
Mandela, Nelson, 117, 274–76, 289, 331, 338, 647, 735
Mangtu, 517–18, 521, 538, 567, 574
Manipur (India), 297, 328, 351, 496, 507, 555, 577, 584–85, 589, 614–15, 626–27, 666, 679, 796, 826, 831
Mann Dam, 322, 325
Manusmriti, 120, 679–80, 754, 778, 823, 866, 947nn202–3
Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), 491, 526, 898n16
Maoist Coordination Committee (MCC), 234, 867
Maoists, 474, 569, 581, 583–84, 867, 899n16; Adivasis and, 295, 350, 476, 492–94, 501, 504–5, 545, 586, 592, 595–602, 612, 626, 788–89, 828–29; in Bastar, xx, 504, 511–68, 574, 599–600, 788, 796; government pursuit of, 350, 427, 431, 476, 490–506, 512–15, 536, 548, 552, 563, 565, 586–605, 615, 625–26, 643, 765, 788–91, 828–29. See also Communist Party of India (CPI, Maoist); Operation Green Hunt; Red Corridor
Mao Zedong, 47, 413, 431, 513, 552, 561, 595, 700
Marathi (language), 615, 671, 762
Marley, Bob: “Buffalo Soldier,” 211
Márquez, Gabriel García, 313
Marqusee, Mike: Redemption Song, 279
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, 646–47, 929n57
Marwari people, 679, 682, 739
Marx, Karl, 552, 622, 651, 762, 784, 819
Marxists, 351, 420, 491, 505, 525, 583, 594–96, 648, 665, 674, 684, 757, 762, 815–16, 824, 936n41
Mayawati, 169, 677, 950n242
Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (Organization for the Empowerment of Workers and Farmers), 123, 866
Mazumdar, Charu, 552–54
Mbeki, Thabo, 275–76
McKinsey Global Institute, 629, 636
Meenachal River, 522
Mehta, Asoka, 947n209
Mehta, Suketu: Maximum City, 457
Meir, Golda, 195, 197
Mexico, xxii, 5, 187, 193, 202, 248, 340, 415; Cancún, 289, 909n9
Middle East, 194, 197, 200, 209, 213, 252, 279, 331, 416. See also individual countries
Miliband, David, 946n190
Mitra, Ashok: “The Phantom Enemy,” 504–5; A Prattler’s Tale, 577
Mitra, Chandan, 656, 912n11
Mittal family, 501, 622
Mizoram (India), 297, 533, 679, 826
Mobil, 360, 646
Modi, Narendra, 167–68, 175, 275, 286, 414, 481, 690, 774, 778–79, 793, 812, 818, 827, 951n247, 952n259; Karmayogi, 778; ModiModi suit, 810; Narendra Modi: A Tale of Extraordinary Leadership, 813; role in anti-Muslim pogrom (2002), xxi, 161–64, 169–70, 223, 274, 412, 422–24, 428, 451, 473–75, 628, 782, 866; RSS/BJP member, xxi, 164–65, 223, 412, 421, 424, 451, 473, 474, 710, 793, 803, 806–10; Sardar Sarovar Dam and, xiv
Mohammad, Mohammad Yasin Fateh (Abu Hamza), 368, 389, 655
Monsanto, 646
Mook Nayak (Leader of the Voiceless), 750
Moonje, B. S., 710
Morley–Minto reforms, 706, 743
Morse, Bradford: Morse Report (Independent Review), 49–52, 65, 71–72
Mott, John, 779
MTV, 9, 162, 223
Mukherji, Nirmalangshu: December 13 (book), 397
Mukti Bahini, 664
Mulshi Dam, 939n76
Munda, Birsa, 817–19
Mundas, 233, 513, 764
Municipal Commission of Delhi, 613
Murthy, Laxmi, 886n1
Murthy, N. R. Narayana, 636
Murugesan, 932n9
Mushrif, S. M.: Who Killed Karkare?, 807
Muslim League, 689, 710, 780, 783
Mussolini, Benito, 420, 710, 770, 800
Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hain
(Muzzaffarnagar is Still Standing), 814
Nagaland (India), 13, 496, 507, 533, 555, 577, 585, 589, 626, 679, 796, 826, 831
Naga people, 555, 666
Nagarjunasagar Dam Project, 33
Naga Sadhu, 106, 866
Nagpur Central Jail, 794; Anda Cell, 790
Naicker, E. V. Ramasamy, 688
Naidu, Chandrababu, 351–52
Namboodiripad, E. M. S.: History of the Indian Freedom Struggle, 761
Nanak, 696, 779
Narayan, Jayaprakash: Sampoorna
Kranti (Total Revolution), 585, 624
Narayanan Murthy, K. R., 155, 684
Narendra Modi: A Tale of Extraordinary Leadership, 813
Nariman, Fali S., 937n38
Narmada, Comrade, 523, 543–44, 546, 557, 567, 791
Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement, NBA), xiii–xiv, 27, 43, 45, 49, 52, 55, 97–100, 122–23, 150–59, 163, 182–86, 233, 236, 310, 312, 316, 323, 346, 538, 566, 585, 594, 642, 866, 872n52
Narmada Control Authority, 96, 315, 319, 325, 873n60
Narmada Sagar Dam, 39, 53, 63, 71, 97, 309–12, 315–16, 318–19, 325–27
Narmada Valley Development Project, xiii, 39, 45, 78
Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDTA), 38, 98, 154, 312, 325
Naroda Patiya massacre (2002), 792–93
Natal (British colony), 714–20, 732, 943n132
Natal Indian Congress, 714–15, 714–17
Natal Indian Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 718
National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, 934n24
National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, 683
National Conference Party (India), 437
National Crime Records Bureau (India), 672
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), 311–12, 316–19, 325–28
National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy (India), 870n16
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA, India), 478–79, 599, 809
Navajivan, 676
Navsarjan Trust, 932n4, 935n18
Naxalites, 431–32, 492, 513, 524–25, 531, 533–34, 537, 542–43, 548–49, 552–53, 558, 560–62, 565, 588, 593–95, 597, 624, 644, 762–63, 817, 909n4, 927n26; West Bengal uprising (1969), 491, 505, 555, 585. See also Communist Party of India (CPI, Maoist); Communist Party of India (CPI(ML), Marxist-Leninist)
Nazis, xxiv, 49, 175, 261, 302, 369, 412, 417–19, 424, 426–27, 532, 800, 942n122. See also Hitler, Adolf; Holocaust; neo-Nazis; Reichstag fire; Third Reich
NDTV, 405–7
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 25, 28, 38, 60, 297, 481, 572, 684, 686, 711, 722, 771, 791, 817, 869n4, 933n13, 936n41, 953n275; “Dams Are the Temples of Modern India” speech, 29, 92
neo-Nazis, xxiv. See also Nazis
Neruda, Pablo: Captain’s Verses, 554; “Standard Oil Company,” 623
Netherlands, 79, 103, 716, 942n114
New Economic Policy, 498
New India Foundation, 428
New Mexico (US), xxii; Albuquerque, 193; Santa Fe, 191
New York City (US), 8, 129, 139, 144, 207–9, 239, 250, 252, 276, 632–34, 739, 744; Manhattan, 129, 277
New York Stock Exchange, 129, 208
New York Times, 199–200, 243, 255, 268, 277, 622, 669
Nicaragua, 135, 140, 193, 213, 256, 258, 330
Nigeria, 203, 270, 417
Nilekani, Nandan, 640, 649
Nilesh, 528–29, 534
Nimad Malwa Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan (Nimad Malwa Farmers and Workers’ Organization), 235, 866
Niti, Comrade, 550, 559, 561, 567, 574
“Nitir Judum Pito,” 551
Niyamgiri hills, 468, 489, 519, 578, 600, 615
Niyogi, Shankar Guha, 280–82, 297, 866
Nobel Prize, 179, 637, 891n3; Literature Prize, 732, 740; Peace Prize, 192, 276, 669
Non-Cooperation Movement, 709, 736
North America, 20, 77, 106, 329, 332, 426, 580, 636. See also individual countries and regions
Obama, Barack, 606–7, 619, 690, 810
Observer Research Foundation (ORF), 649
Occupie
d Territories, 195. See also Palestine
Occupy Wall Street movement, 618–19, 639, 641, 690
Odisha/Orissa (India), 826; Balitutha, 593; Jagatsinghpur, 600, 615; Kalahandi, 35; Kalinganagar, 593, 600, 615, 625, 631; Kandhamal, 450, 474, 600, 807, 818; Keonjhar, 522, 802; Koraput, 601; Malud, 322; Narayanpatna, 586, 601; Nayagarh, 546; Paradip Port, 522; Rayagara, 303
Official Development Assistance/Department for International Development, 328
Official Secrets Act (India), 45, 385
Ogden Energy Group, 78, 99, 101–2
Olympics, 66, 358, 477, 572
Omkareshwar Dam, 310–11, 315, 328
Oommen, T. K.: Classes, Citizenship and Inequality
Operation Desert Storm, 135, 239, 357, 471. See also Gulf War
Operation Enduring Freedom, 129–30, 134, 140, 344. See also Operation Infinite Justice; War on Terror
Operation Gladio, 369
Operation Green Hunt, 490–506, 512, 536, 548, 552, 563, 565, 587, 590–93, 598, 605, 615, 626, 788–89, 828–29
Operation Infinite Justice, 126–37, 140. See also Operation Enduring Freedom; War on Terror
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 243–44, 249. See also War on Terror
Orange Free State (British colony), 717, 732
Oraon people, 513, 764
Organization of American States, 892n10
Oscars, 573, 688
Other Backward Classes (OBC), 671, 782, 817–18, 830, 949n231. See also Shudras
Ottoman Empire, 419, 708, 916n1; Diyarbakir/Dikranagert, 409; Dubne, 409
Outlook, xix–xx, 156, 511, 517, 584, 935n29, 937n52
Padel, Felix: Out of This Earth, 500
Pakistan, 148, 190, 203, 258, 334, 390–91, 447, 451, 486, 493, 512, 518, 553, 640, 689, 702, 780, 802, 803, 807, 810, 823, 865, 888n22; Afghanistan–Pakistan border, 130, 132–33; dams in, 64, 67–68; East Bengal, 783; Islamabad, 191; Karachi, 14, 768; presence in Afghanistan, 131–32, 145, 454; Punjab: Beghampura, 699; Lahore, 14, 450, 567, 700, 703, 755; Rawalpindi/Pindi, 440, 442; Sialkot, 808; role in Cold War, 650; role in Indian Parliament attacks (2001), 367, 376, 383, 385, 389, 655, 663–64, 804; role in Kashmir, 145, 179–80, 401, 437–38, 440, 442–46, 487, 607–8, 662; role in Mumbai attacks (2008), 452–53, 806; role in War on Terror, 291, 336, 606, 618, 665, 667, 669; Sindh, 452; Swat Valley, 669; tensions with India, xx, 1–2, 5–6, 10, 13–14, 35, 92, 161, 167, 170–71, 177, 184, 188, 200, 451–52, 456–57, 606, 710–11, 804, 829, 833, 890n42
Pakistani Army, 453, 803
Palestine, 33, 168, 170, 197, 269, 272, 290, 332, 341, 355, 455, 471, 486, 607, 893n22; Gaza, 194–95, 477; Israeli occupation of, 135, 195–96, 213, 331, 354, 416, 419, 477, 643; UN partition of, 195; West Bank, 135, 195. See also Mandatory Palestine; Occupied Territories
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), 197
Palwankar, Baloo Babaji (P. Baloo), 773, 951n245
Panama, 135, 140, 193, 213, 256, 258
Panchajanya, 817, 819
Panchayat Act (Extension to Scheduled Areas Act, PESA, India), 581
Pandey, P. P., 423–24, 807
Pansare, Govind, 811–12
Paraiyars, 668, 672, 700
Parekh, Deepak, 169, 890n36
Parliament of the World’s Religions, 703
Parmanand, Bhai, 941n95
Parsis, 163, 474, 679, 730, 744, 765–66, 866
Partition, 17, 33, 173, 438, 445–46, 451–52, 473, 703, 711, 780, 783, 801. See also Radcliffe Line
Pash (Avtar Singh Sandhu), 819
Pass Laws (South Africa), 724, 733
Patel, Chimanbhai, 29, 70
Patels, 71, 323, 782
Pathribal massacre (2000), 390–91
Patkar, Medha, 45, 150, 152–53, 155, 163
Patna High Court, 931n3
Patnaik, Utsa, 298
Pearl Harbor attacks (1941), 135, 212
Pentagon, 126, 128–29, 142, 207, 213, 215, 243, 255, 259–60, 267, 651
Pentagon Papers, 217–18, 247
People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), 495, 586–87
Peoples Democratic Party (India), 437, 821, 823
People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), 522–23, 528, 534–35, 537–38, 544–47, 552, 556, 558, 562, 788, 790
People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), 765
People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, 397
Peoples’ War Group (PWG), 234, 351–52, 525–27, 529–30, 541, 543, 867, 898
Pepsi, 19, 134, 360
Peru, 20, 140, 193; Arequipa, 224
Peshwas, 741
Philippines, 248, 638
Phoenix Settlement, 720
Phule, Jotirao, 687, 702, 741, 762, 776, 780, 817–19; Gulamigiri, 724, 729
Phule, Savitribai, 776, 819
Pinochet, Augusto, 192–93, 269, 358, 638, 892n10
The Pioneer, 369, 656, 739, 912n11
Pokhran desert, 1, 5, 170, 228
Pokhran nuclear tests (1998), xx, 1, 10, 12–13, 19, 92, 111, 146, 166, 170, 177, 188, 228, 422, 471–72, 482, 614, 801–2
Polak, Henry S. L., 734; M. K. Gandhi, 731–32
Police Armed Constabulary (PAC), 793–94
Pol Pot, 413. See also Khmer Rouge
Poona Pact, 772–75, 782, 950n242, 951n245
Poorna Swaraj (Declaration of Independence of India), 768
Portugal, 942n114
Posco, 501, 593, 600, 615
Powell, Colin, 266, 279, 287
Powell, Michael, 266, 279
Prabuddha Bharat, 697
Prabuddha Bharata, 940n88
Pradeshik Armed Constabulary, 577
Pragya Bharati, 422, 459
Prajapati, Tulsiram, 793, 807
Pratap, 704
Premnagar, 697, 699
President’s Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (India), 932n6
President’s Export Council (US), 268
President’s Police Medal for Gallantry, 627
Press Trust of India, 587, 910n12, 918n26
Preston, Lewis, 51, 872n51
Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA, India), 161, 235, 295, 349–50, 377, 392, 405, 423, 781, 916n29
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu, 732
Provincial Legislature, 783
Pulayas, 751
Punjab (India), 14, 68, 435, 553, 555, 583, 665, 672, 685, 688, 703–6, 748, 826, 936n44; Amritsar, 14; Kamma, 682
Punjab Achhut Udhar Mandal, 704
Purusha, 937n51
Purusha Sukta, 687
Purushothaman, Vakkom, 898n17
Quit India Movement, 297, 780
Radcliffe Line, 451. See also Partition
Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti (Rajaji), 751, 771, 946n196
Rajagopalachari, Leela, 946n196
Rajah, M. C., 771, 773
Rajasthan (India), 14, 424, 683, 824, 866; Bhawarli, 322; Jaipur, 448, 458, 570, 630
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, 824
Rajbhoj, P. N., 947n203
Rajkot Assembly, 162, 423
Rajnandgaon Air Base, 494, 506, 589
Rajnandagoan forest, 494, 558, 584
Rajputs, 58–59
Raju, Comrade, 523, 538–41, 543, 555–57, 563–65, 567, 574
Ram (deity), xvii, 17, 22, 161, 301, 422, 470, 489, 697, 785, 801, 868
Ram, Babu Mangoo, 688, 705–6, 770
Ram, Kanshi, 950n242
Ram, N., xix
Ramabai, Panita, 687, 723, 743, 780
Ramakrishna Mission, 526, 688
Ramayana, 509, 742
Ram Janmabhoomi movement, 476, 801
Ram Mandir, 161, 163, 232, 237, 867, 868. See also Babri Majid attack (1992)
Ram Rajya, 697, 707, 785
Ranadive, Dinoo, 947n209
RAND (Research and Development Corporation), 80, 636, 651
Rani Bodili Kanya Ashram, 535, 602
Ranveer Sena, 931n3
Rashtriya Janata Da
l (National People’s Party, RJD, India), 175–76
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Self-Help Group, RSS, India), 303, 459, 506, 799, 817–19, 825, 887n1, 940n84; admiration for European fascism, 164, 222, 274, 420, 450, 710, 800; Advani and, 421, 444, 451–52, 710, 801; 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, 420–22, 800–801, 867; Dhasal and, 782; founding of, xxi, 420, 710; Gandhi assassination and, 711; 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, 890n47; Hazare and, 615; Modi and, xxi, 164–65, 223, 274, 412, 421, 424, 451, 473, 474, 710, 793, 803, 806–9, 806–10, 813; organizations, 421–22, 451, 781, 800–802, 813–14; Samjhauta Express bombing (2007), 452, 802, 807; shakhas, 104, 166, 172, 303, 306, 421, 800, 867; Vajpayee and, 421, 451, 710, 804; views on the Indian Constitution, 20, 833; We, or, Our Nationhood Defined, 420–21, 450, 710. See also Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, India)
Rath Yatra (Chariots’ Journey), 232, 302, 422, 801, 812, 864, 867
Ratzel, Friedrich, 418, 426
Ravidas, 687, 697, 706, 819
Reagan, Ronald, 145, 331, 471
Red Corridor, 501, 603, 788
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), 451, 622
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), xv, 475, 622, 627, 678, 682
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, xv
Republican Party (India), 947n209
Republican Party (US), 268, 276, 335, 357, 359, 796
Resolution of Fundamental Rights (India), 768–69
Reuters, 808, 935n24
Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), 791
Rice, Condoleezza, 279, 287
Right to Information Act (India), 478, 809
Rio Tinto, 501, 630
Riverside Church, xxii, 276
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, 934n18
Rockefeller, John D., 632–34, 638, 646, 738, 928n32
Rockefeller Foundation, 632, 634–37, 646, 650; Ramon Magsaysay Prize, 638; Study Commission on US Policy toward Southern Africa, 647
Roelofs, Joan: Foundations and Public Policy, 639
Rolland, Roamin: Mahatma Gandhi, 740
Rukmini/Mehrunissa, 508–9
Rumpelstiltskin, 76–77, 80, 82, 105, 111
Rumsfeld, Donald, 134, 142, 147, 168, 203, 249, 259–60, 268, 334, 359
Rupi, Comrade, 523, 543, 557
Rushdie, Salman, 850; The Satanic Verses, 630
Russia, 131–32, 148, 214, 262, 301, 336, 417–18, 486, 509, 553, 595, 604, 650, 740, 756, 894n44. See also Chechnya; Soviet Union