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Raina: Indian Muslims
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
Badri Raina
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My chief concern here is to understand the situation of muslims in India. But, to the extent that the issue is inevitably affected by the condition of muslims world-wide, it is relevant to take note of factors that impinge upon that condition even...
Raina: Gujarat 2006— Same But Not the Same
Znet Article, August, 02 2006
Badri Raina
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It would be a grave miscalculation for the Indian State as well aswell-meaning secular and peace-loving Indians to be taken in by Narendra Modi’s seemingly conciliatory visit to the scene of the last round of violence in Vadodra (in the m...
Raina: We The People
Znet Article, July, 19 2006
Badri Raina
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In perhaps the first public statement he made after the event of December 13,2001 when the Indian Parliament became the target of a terrorist attack, (although there are those who still speculate about who the real attackers might have been), the ...
Raina: Kashmir
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
Badri Raina
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Experience teaches us that often those sections of society who profit the most from historical change are the first to lament when calls go up for further change. The fact, nonetheless is, as atleast one school of political epistemology recogn...
Raina: Back to a Better Version of Reform
Znet Article, July, 07 2006
Badri Raina
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Although the custodians of ‘ruling ideas’ seek always to lend ‘universal’ weight to concepts that suit them, it remains a truism of common human experience that the same words across changing histories do not mean t...
Raina: India, Nepal, and Left Praxis
Znet Article, June, 24 2006
Badri Raina
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In an earlier piece in the same space (“India and Nepalâ€, Znet, june 10) suggestions were made with respect to the implications of the Nepalese revolutionary upsurge for the idea of the theocratic State. That upsurge also has an...
Raina: India and Nepal
Znet Article, June, 10 2006
Badri Raina
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Replicating the wishful follies of the eighteenth century Bourbon monarch, Louis XVI, King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal has finally been denuded of all his powers. It hardly matters now what royal robes he wears; the emperor will henceforth be effe...
