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...Mihir Desai Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991). A Justification of Reservations and Affirmative Action for Backward Castes in India Mihir Desai I must confess that Arun Shourie is the inspiring Despite caste criteria...

...Ghanshyam Shah © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994) The BJP and Backward Castes in Cujarat Ghanshyam Shah The BJP’s perspectives on the economy not- per castes? Does it mean that consciousness of be- withstanding, it comes...

... nTetehCnuyIndia Twentieth-Century in Soccer Women’s Backward: and Forward...

.... Particular historical actors are valorized and emphasized, as they become protagonists of the national narrative. Often the outlines of the present-day state are anachronistically projected backward as part of attempts to construct a modern national identity. Lebanon's contested history offers a window...

... Islamic awakening has several explanations: (1) the cultural heritage beginning with the end of the Rashidi era of the Abbasids when the backward streams erased rational thinking and judgment from public life; (2) colonialism , beginning with the arrival of Napoleon in Egypt and the rise of nationalist...

... to nineteenth-century philosopher Herbert Spencer in order to produce a radical self-making project for the present. Second, Har Dayal offers a utopian vision of a future World-State, which, as the product of radical self-making, is a radical world-making project that repeatedly glances backward. At each...

... territory symbolically; they demonstrated the advancement and technological superiority of the conquerors vis-à-vis the “backward” indigenous population; and beyond that, they established the colonies as laboratories of modernity and experimentation grounds of progress. In this sense, this essay employs...

... of Muslim women's bodies under threat, secular liberal sensibilities toward pain—visible, bodily, and attributable to religious backwardness—render certain kinds of injury always already scandalous. In contrast, less spectacular structural violence does not offend liberal sensibilities in quite the same...

... the restorative temporality implies continuity, the reactivation of institutions from the past, and their experimentation in everyday life. These two temporal dimensions are intertwined. They can either combine in new political configurations or oppose each other in progress and regress, forward and backward...

... interconnected. This shared postcolonial space extended from the Soviet South to Africa. The glue for the transregional imagination was an engagement with the topos of backwardness. For many of the participants in the debate, the Soviet past was the African present. Focusing on the 1960s and 1970s, three...

... the biradari. Thus in 1939 an outraged “rights” because the Momins, who formed the largest letter to the editor indicated that the Muslim League’s single group among Muslims, had demanded them “on criticism of the recruitment of backward Muslims by the the bar& (emphasis added) of their vast population...

... and disillusionment, especially among the strategies of the BJP in spreading the influence of status quoist upper caste and the restless and up- political Hinduism. But it is also necessary to con- wardly mobile backward and scheduled castes and sider the role played by caste, class and communal classes...

... and will.”l~ backwardness in our own culture and there will be Chakrabarty thus seems to be saying that by no need to blame a “fetishised demon called choosing the concepts of “hierarchy” and ‘colonialism’ or imperialism It is only thus, ac- “inegalitarian relations” to understand...

... of virulent hatred and violence against the Dalits. For one hundred and two days there was the constant drumming of words like BC (Backward Classes), Dhedaz, Savarna and Avarna (upper castes and Dalits), Ujaliyat and Pacchat (Fair castes and backward castes) in and around Ahmedabad...

...?” Der Spiegel , August 4 , 2005 . www.spiegel.de/international/syria-s-reforms-too-much-or-not-enough-a-368250-2.html . Sausan M. . “A Step Backward: The New Revision of Syria's Personal Law.” Translator unknown . al-Thara , 2009 . Last accessed March 1, 2012 . www.thara-sy.com/thara...

... sought to constitute a centrist force, based on 2 the support of the backward and lower castes and other parties, often resonate to the emotive agenda operating with the notion of social justice in which set by it. the Left would be its “natural...

... both the major ad- to social transformation wanting and, in effect, versary (in this case the BJP) and the new social leaving the truly deprived and destitute social forces (in this case the Dalit and other lower castes) strata, the Dalits in particular but other backward on the margins...

... Nandini Chandra arly April 2007 witnessed an interim stay order by the Indian Supreme Court, bring- ing a halt to the government’s proposed quota of 27 percent for the “socially and edu- cationally backward classes,” also known as the other backward classes (OBCs...

... founded the All-India Backward (SC, ST, whom many Untouchable Bhangis [sweepers] regard as OBC) and Minority Communities Employees Federa- their ancestor Since then, Kanshi Ram has devoted tion (BAMCEF) whose aim was to organize the elite of his time to raising the consciousness of his caste...

...; and that the government of India had much dinated to, the central tier of colonial autocracy, to do with linking those levels.15 This, however, pro- which matched geographies of “backwardness” vided the platform for a series of suggestions that with exceptional “degrees...