...Meirav Mishali-Ram Afghanistan has been the scene of enduring violent conflict for three decades, yet the sources of its conflict date back to the establishment of the Afghan state in the eighteenth century. The American-led military intervention in October 2001 ended the extremist Taliban rule...

... of the recent Sikh past is reflected in the works of Ratan Singh Bhangu, the author of the hagiographic work Gur Panth Prakash , and Ram Sukh Rao, the court historian of the Sikh kingdom of Kapurthala. The works on these Punjabi authors reveal anxieties about how the recent past would be recorded and understood...

...” to “Empowerment”: Kanshi a new kind of leadership combining socio-religious Ram’s Political Strategy for Shaping the Bahujan work at the grassroots level with political action “from Samaj above.” He became convinced that his caste fellows Kanshi Ram was born in 1932 in a Scheduled Caste should convert...

... is directed by Shyam Benegal. one who accepts the Hindu philosophical traditions. The Swadhyay repeatedly emphasize self- This is the holy land of Shri Ram and Raghuvansh dignity, dignity of labor, individual identity, culture clan. The philosophy and the principles...

...Dominique-Sila Khan © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 References Bhattacharyya , N. N. 1987 . History of the Tantric Religion . Delhi: Manohar. Binford , M. 1976 . “Mixing in the Color of Ram of Ranuja,” in Smith (ed.), Hinduism...

... century, narrative is by the 16th-century Sufi Malik Muham- the alleged building of a mosque on the site of Ram’s mad Jayasi (fl. 1540), who wrote an embellished ver- birthplace by the Mughal Emperor Babar in the 16th, sion of it in 1542, and in so doing crowned the Hindi and the excesses...

... of autonomous localized tive, could be elected, Dalit political power would follow community action groups. Publications from the small and could be used to eliminate both caste oppression and headquarters office in Delhi reflected Kanshi Ram's search economic exploitation. These expectations have been con...

... ). The Economic Development of Hyderabad, 1 . Bombay: Orient Longmans. Rajeswar Rao , Chandra ( 1979(1972) ). “The Postwar Situation and Beginning of Armed Struggle”, in Peasant Struggles in India ed. A.R. Desai. Bombay: Oxford University Press, pp. 517 –531. Ram , Mohan ( 1969 ). Indian...

... and the have had enough of it. The opening of the locks at return of the economy to the center stage of the the disputed Babari mosque-Ram Janmabhumi nation’s agenda. The story is well known. gates, the noisy interventions of the orthodox The story, however, points in two directions: the Muslim...

... in this case study with the Ahalya story is riddled with doubt and murky with ambivalence. Mrs. A. seems to fixate more on Lord Ram's redemption of Ahalya than the plight of Ahalya herself: Ram, not Ahalya, is given agency, in a departure from the way in which Mrs. A. had reanimated the stories of the other...

...: Superintendent Government Printing. Sharma , Sri Ram 1971 Punjab in Ferment , New Delhi: S. Chand & Co.(Pvt.) Ltd. Singh , Khushwant , and Singh Satindra 1966 Ghadar 1915, India's First Armed Revolution , New Delhi: R & K Publishing House. Singh , Randhir 1945 The Ghadar...

.... These affidavits were in total Raghubar Das seeking permission to construct a contradiction to the stand taken by the Deputy temple on the Ram Chabootra, which was claimed Commissioner, Faizabad in the main suit wherein to be the Ramjanmasthan (birthplace of Rama), and he had stated on April 24...

...Shail Mayaram © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1997 References Aggarwal , Pratap . 1971 . Caste Religion and Power: An Indian Case Study . New Delhi: Sri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations. Alam , Muzaffar . n.d. “Assimilation from...

... of the University was visible in the quick bates, Raidas’s devotion, Vivekananda’s condemna- pace of the restoration of normalcy in the town. tion of communalism and sectarian Hinduism, The big turn-around, however, was inspired by the Gandhi’s Ram Rajya, and the general line of debate religious centers...

...) was the first of the Indo-Islamic kings of northern In- Malikzadah, Bhupat Rai, Khushhal Chand, Anand Ram dia formally to declare Persian the language of admini- “Mukhlis,” Bindraban “Khwushgu,” and a number of stration at all levels, which had not been the case under others who made substantive contributions...