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...Zoya Hasan © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulktin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994) Party Politics and Communal Mobilization in Uttar Pradesh Zoya Hasan Nothing signifies the change in the intellectual vance of the BJP by creating the conditions and and political...

... in his native the Chamars have adopted the Sikh religion, there state, Maharashtra, and to develop pockets of influence was some upward mobility. The teaching of the in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. However, the party started [sikh] gurus is more egalitarian.’ declining in the early 1970s, largely...

...Anand Vivek Taneja In this article I explore stories and rituals surrounding sanctified birds, snakes, cats, and stones in contemporary Delhi and rural Uttar Pradesh. These stories and rituals, while drawing on long-standing Indic and Islamic traditions that centrally feature animals, are in many...

..., official support or help. Since in both cases, communicated to the Uttar Pradesh State govern- official commissions of inquiry had been instituted, ment and the Division Commissioner in Faizabad. the official reaction was in the first instance to cite The Commission recorded evidence in Ayodhya...

... is an illustrated manuscript that was transcribed in 1758. The second and third manuscripts were transcribed in 1836 and 1845 respectively and were both discovered in the Awadh region of present-day Uttar Pradesh. All three manuscripts seem to have been produced for members of the Hindu Rajput warrior community...

... Ecological Movement’: A Case Study of Women's Role in the Chipko Movement in the Garhwal Region of Uttar Pradesh, India,” Unpublished paper, XI International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Vancouver, British Columbia, Aug. 23, 1983 . Joshi , Gopa , 1981 . “Protecting...

... Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) developed after Inde- were striding ahead. This was the hopeful phase, pendence was to found a primary school at almost the golden decade of “Nehruvian socialism,” Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in 1952.’ Designated of a centrist consensus before it met with major de...

.... Let me begin with two moments in which Dalit men guided me to this line of thought. I was con- ducting ethnographic and archival research in the cities of Lucknow and Benares in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.1 The subject of my research was not the spatial or sensory life of caste but rather...

... , no. 3 ( 1955 ): 105 – 6 . Davis Mike . Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World . London : Verso , 2001 . Duncan Ian . “Agricultural Innovation and Political Change in North India: The Lok Dal in Uttar Pradesh.” Journal of Peasant Studies...

... in- government “could guarantee the security of Mus- creased its tally beyond 119 seats. The BJP’s real lims. They would be secure only in a Hindu society gain was the victory in Uttar Pradesh, electorally and a Hindu Raj” (Times of India, November 20, the most crucial state, but it was a double-edged...

..., from ritual definitions of roles and positions consciousness and political assertion on the part of to civic and political definitions of them took place. the Dalit masses on the one hand and the Muslim Of course, as already hinted, in the post- middle level leadership in Uttar Pradesh...

... . New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company. Saklani , A. ( 1987 ). The History of a Himalayan Princely State . Delhi: Durga Publications. Sanwal , M. ( 1986 ). “ The Social Forestry Design Framework: The Hill Areas of Uttar Pradesh ,” London: ODI. Singh , O.P. ( 1983 ). “The UP...

... of less For the Indian political leaders, the than six months of import. Green Revolution was the perfect solution: In 1966 the summer crops failed again it accelerated the rate of growth of in Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, parts...

... obtained a new lease of life and is backward castes have responded to its Ram Jan- posing a serious challenge to the BJP in its own mabhumi and Hindutva call with enthusiasm. In the bastions, especially Uttar Pradesh. The Congress newer areas it has been helped by the ground al- has...

... of power. Joel Lee s essay also focuses on the built environment and addresses the mutual entailments of caste and sense perception. Lee builds on ethnographic research on Dalit communities in Uttar Pradesh to explore how rural labor and urban sanitation infrastructure are governed by the visual, aural...

... 'laborers they seek to mobilize are an The project was daunting. There are several hundred equally diverse group from various "low" status castes and kilns scattered around the perimeter of Delhi's 1,500 square from distant regions of the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya kilometer territory. Even workers...

... with the dichotomous divi- molished a sixteenth-century mosque in Ayodhya in Uttar sion of secularism and communalism and/or secular Pradesh and unleashed a reign of terror and a series of nationalism and religious communalism abound, but it has bloodbaths in various cities. Has the “secular Indian nation- also...

... in Uttar Pradesh had asked me: is there myth. such a thing as Muslim culture; and if there is, By taking a secular stance in speeches and what is the point in keeping it alive? The sec- writings such as The Discovery of India, Jawaharlal ond thing he said...

... of “internal colony” for the plains-­based administra­ some concern. tors of Uttar Pradesh who exploited it for resources But how did monkeys suddenly become mat­ and left it chronically underdeveloped.2 The idea ters of state...

... stayed behind. The only The BJP achieved major electoral gains in Uttar silver lining, from their point of view, was the pru- Pradesh, once a Congress stronghold, and in Hi- dent decision...