The new Indian right

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 9, 2001, Pages 43-65

  Vanaik, Achin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040485365     PISSN: 00286060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. See my Painful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy in India, London 1990, pp. 18-26.
2. The Centre's expenditure rose from Rs. 22,000 crores (crore = 10 million) in 1980-81 to Rs. 82,000 crores in 1989-90, and a small surplus on revenue account became a whopping deficit of 9 per cent of GDP in 1986-87.
3. Manmohan Singh, the Finance Minister who introduced the reform package of 1991, widely seen as its 'architect', was a one-time critic (former head of the South Commission) turned believer. A more important figure behind the scenes, with an earlier neoliberal commitment and stronger association with Washington, was Montek Singh Ahluwahlia.
4. The term 'internal bourgeoisie' was coined by Nicos Poulantzas (see Classes in Contemporary Capitalism, London 1975) to capture new features of imperialist implantation in the Third World, soon after the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system. It may be conceptually even more pertinent in today's conditions of neoliberal globalization.
5. R. Nagaraj, 'Indian Economy since 1980: Virtuous Growth or Polarisation?', Economic and Political Weekly, 5 August 2000, pp. 2831-9.
6. 'Political Culture in Independent India', Teaching Politics, vol. 7, nos 1-2, 1989.
7. For a detailed critique of this mistaken approach, see my Furies of Indian Communalism: Religion, Modernity and Secularization, London 1997, chapter 5, and 'Reply to Pizzo', in 'Symposium on "Functional Substitutes for Fascism" in the Era of Globalization': forthcoming issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
8. See 'Unofficial White Paper', Indian Social Institute, New Delhi 1999, prepared by Christian activist John Dayal from police files and other publicly verified sources, so-called because the BJP government refused to publish a detailed list of such incidents. Terrorization and intimidation through beatings, bible-burning, church and property destruction is the main aim. Except in rare cases - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons were murdered by Bajrang Dal leader Dara Singh in Orissa where Staines had set up a leper colony - killings are avoided.
9. See New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament, co-authored by Praful Bidwai and myself: New York 1999 and Oxford 2000.
10. 'India's Corruption Blues', 22 March 2001. The Economist was particularly concerned that Brajesh Mishra and N. K. Singh, two key neoliberal aides to Vajpayee, should survive the scandal. The rabidly nativist Shiv Shena was calling for their heads.
11. For this, see Bruce Graham, Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics: The Origins and Development of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Cambridge 1990.