... that the trial set the stage for the creation of an official communism in India, which led to unbridgeable rifts within the leftist spectrum across India, and particularly in the Punjab. This essay then touches on how that was true for politics as a whole. Thus, the trial contributed to the sharpening...

...Pieter C. van Duin © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 “Workers of All Colours Unite South African Communism, the White Working Class, and the Ideology of Proletarian Non-Racialism, 191 7-1943...

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...Asghar Ali Engineer © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 2 (1994) Communal Violence and the Role of law Enforcement Agencies Asghar Ali Engineer The role of the police in communal riots has be- most visible part...

...Rajni Kothari © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994) Caste, Communalism and the Democratic Process Rajni Kothari In the mindless drift from a pursuit of consensus a social phenomenon, it is considered strange and out of a highly...

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... , No. 17 , April 26. Ahmad , Abul Mansur , 1970 . Amar Dekha Panchash Bachhar . Dhaka: Naoroj Kitabistan. Ahmed , Rafiuddin , 1981 . The Bengal Muslims 1871–1906: A Quest for Identity . Delhi: Oxford University Press. Benedict , Anderson , 1983 . Imagined Communities: Reflections...

... passing day. Even if Sri Lanka is fortunate enough not to COMMUNICATION FROM SRI succumb to Martial Law or Social Fascism, possibilities for LANKA the stabilization of whatever remains of bourgeois democ...

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...Paulo G. Pinto The Arab community in Brazil comprises an estimated 4–6 million immigrants and their descendants and was created by an almost continuous flux of immigrants from the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) since the nineteenth century. While until the 1970s the Arab immigrants...

...Martin Slama The article compares Hadhrami communities located in two different parts of Indonesia: Java, Indonesia’s central island, and rather peripheral Central and North Sulawesi. The comparisons generated the following results: in Sulawesi, regulations implemented by the Dutch colonial...