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Authors: Ramachandra Guha
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| Lt. Gen. K. S. Brar, Operation Blue Star: The True Story (New Delhi: UBS Publishers, 1987), pp. 35–7. Since he led the operation, and since all journalists had been evacuated beforehand, Brar’s book is essential in any reconstruction of Operation Bluestar. However, it should be read alongside Tully and Jacob, Amritsar, this based on interviews with eyewitnesses and survivors. | |
| Brar, Operation Bluestar, p. 91. | |
| Ibid., pp. 126–7. | |
| Lt. Gen. J. S. Aurora, ‘If Khalistan Comes, the Sikhs will be the Losers’, in Patwant Singh and Harji Malik, eds, Punjab: The Fatal Miscalculation (New Delhi: Patwant Singh, 1985), p. 133. | |
| J. S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 227. | |
| Shahnaz Anklesaria, ‘Fall-out of Army Action: A Field Report’, Economic and Political Weekly, 28 July 1984. | |
| Sten Widmalm, ‘The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, 1975–1989’, in Amrita Basu and Atul Kohli, eds, Community Conflicts and the State in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988); B. K. Nehru, Nice Guys Finish Second (New Delhi: Viking, 1997), pp. 627–41. | |
| The Week, 26 August 1984. | |
| Indira Gandhi to Erna Sailer, 20 October 1984, copy in Jayakar Papers, Mumbai. | |
| Pupul Jayakar, ‘31 October’, typescript in ibid. | |
| This account of the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi is based on two works deservedly regarded as classics: Anon., Who are the Guilty? Report of a Joint Inquiry into the Cause and Impact of the Riots in Delhi from 31 October to 10 November (Delhi: PUDR and PUCL, 1984); Uma Chakravarti and Nandita Haksar, The Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation (New Delhi: Lancer International, 1987). I have also drawn upon conversations with friends and colleagues who were active in providing relief after the riots. | |
| ‘The Violent Aftermath’, India Today, 30 November 1984. | |
| ‘Indira Gandhi’s Bequest’, Economic and Political Weekly, 3 November 1984. | |
| Daniel Sutherland, ‘India Seen Facing Era of Uncertainty’, New York Times, 1 November 1984; Henry Trewhitt, ‘U.S. Fears Assassination may bring Chaos in India, Rivalry in South Asia’, The Sun, 1 November 1984. |
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| Times of India, 4 December 1984. | |
| Times of India, 14 December 1984. | |
| Praful Bidwai, ‘What Caused the Pressure Build-Up’, Times of India, 26 December 1984. | |
| Radhika Ramaseshan, ‘Profit against Safety’, Economic and Political Weekly, 22–29 December 1984; Indian Express, 5 December 1984. The Bhopal tragedy has had a tortured and still continuing afterlife, with the survivors and their families ranged against the government (accused of providing insufficient medical relief) and Union Carbide (accused of paying paltry amounts of compensation). | |
| Hari Jaisingh, India after Indira: The Turbulent Years (1984–1989) (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1989), pp. 19–20; Business India, 17–30 December 1984. | |
| Harish Khare, ‘The State Goes Macho’, Seminar, January 1985. | |
| Mani Shankar Aiyar, Remembering Rajiv (Calcutta: Rupa and Co., 1992), p. 53. | |
| Harish Puri, ‘Punjab: Elections and After’, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 October 1985; India Today, 15 September and 15 October 1985. | |
| India Today,15 September 1985 and 15 January 1986; Sunday, 29 December–4 January 1986. | |
| See Lalchungnunga, Mizoram: Politics of Regionalism and National Integration (New Delhi: Reliance Publishing House, 2002), Appendix D; report in Sunday, 20–26 July 1986. | |
| ‘Mizoram: Quest for Peace’, India Today, 31 July 1986. | |
| S. S. Gill, The Dynasty: A Political Biography of the Premier Ruling Family of Modern India (New Delhi: Harper Collins India, 1996), pp. 394–5. | |
| Business India, December 31 1984–January 13 1985. | |
| Shubhabrata Bhattacharya, ‘Rajiv Gandhi’s Discovery of India’, Sunday, 22–28 September 1985. | |
| See judgment in Criminal Appeal No. 103 of 1981, decided on 23 April 1985 (Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano and Others), Supreme Court Cases (1985), 2 SCC, pp. 556–74. | |
| Hutokshi Doctor, ‘Shah Bano: Brief Glory’, Imprint, May 1986. | |
| See Danial Latifi, ‘Muslim Law’, in Alice Jacob, ed., Annual Survey of Indian Law, vol. 21 (New Delhi: The lndian Law Institute, 1985). | |
| Lok Sabha Debates, 23 August 1985. | |
| Ritu Sarin, ‘Shah Bano: The Struggle and the Surrender’, Sunday, 1–7December 1985. | |
| E.g. editorial in The Statesman, 19 December 1985. | |
| Indian Express, 21 December 1985. | |
| Vasudha Dhagamwar, ‘After the Shah Bano Judgement – II’, Times of India, 11 February 1986. | |
| See Eve’s Weekly, issue of 29 March–4April 1986. | |
| R. D. Pradhan, Working with Rajiv Gandhi (New Delhi: Harper Collins India, 1995), pp. 130–1. | |
| Peter Van der Veer, Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre (London: The Athlone Press, 1988), especially chapter 1, and ‘"God Must Be Liberated”: A Hindu Liberation Movement in Ayodhya’, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 1987. Ayodhya’s sister town, Faizabad, gives its name to the district. The official who passed the verdict was technically the district judge of Faizabad. | |
| Saifuddin Chowdhury, quoted in Sunday, 9–15 March 1986. | |
| See articles by Neerja Chowdhury in The Statesman, 20 April and 1May1986, reproduced in A. G. Noorani, ed., The Babri Masjid Question, vol. 1 (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2003), pp. 260–6. | |
| Inderjit Badhwar, ‘Hindus: Militant Revivalism’, India Today, 31 May 1986. | |
| Sant Ramsharaan Das of Banaras, writing in May 1989, quoted in Manjari Katju, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2003), p. 73. | |
| India Today, 15 March 1986; Sunday, 25–31 January 1987. | |
| Cf. Rajni Bakshi, ‘The Rajput Revival’, Illustrated Weekly of India, 1 November 1987. | |
| This figure comes from David Page and William Crawley, Satellites over South Asia: Broadcasting, Culture and the Public Interest (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001), p. 56. | |
| Arvind Rajagopal, Politics after Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshapingof the Indian Public (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 84. | |
| Sevanti Ninan, Through the Magic Window: Television and Change in India (New Delhi: Penguin India, 1995), pp. 6–8. | |
| Philip Lutgendorf, ‘Ramayan: TheVideo’, Drama Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 1990, p. 128. | |
| Robin Jeffrey, ‘Media Revolution and “Hindu Politics” in North India, 1982–99’, Himal, July 2001, emphasis added. | |
| Interview in Financial Express, quotedin Supriya Roychowdhury, ‘State and Business in India: The Political Economy of Liberalization, 1984–89’, unpublished PhD dissertation, Department of Politics, Princeton University, pp. 100–1. Cf. also Stanley A. Kochanek, ‘Regulation and Liberalization in India’, Asian Survey, vol. 26, no. 12, 1986. | |
| H. K. Paranjape, ‘New Lamps for Old! A Critique of the “NewEconomicPolicy"’, Economic and Political Weekly, 7 September 1985. | |
| Cf. reports in India Today, 15 March and 15 April 1985. | |
| T. N. Ninan, ‘Rise of the Middle Class’, India Today, 31 December 1985. See also ‘The Rising Affluence of the Middle Class’, Sunday, 29 October–1 November 1986. | |
| Roychowdhury, ‘State and Business in India’, pp. 73, 122. | |
| T. N. Ninan and Jagannath Dubashi, ‘Dhirubhai Ambani: The Super Tycoon’, India Today, 30 June 1985; T. N. Ninan, ‘Reliance: Under Pressure’, India Today, 15 August 1986; Perez Chandra, ‘Reliance: The Man Behind the Legend’, Business India, 17–30 June 1985; Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, ‘The Two Faces of Dhirubhai Ambani’, Seminar, January 2003. | |
| ‘Crony Capitalism’, Sunday, 2–8October 1988; Teesta Setalvad, ‘Pawar, Politics and Money’, Business India, 10 – 23 July 1989; Sankarshan Thakur, ‘How Corrupt Is Bhajan Lal?’, Sunday, 21–27 July 1985. | |
| Indranil Banerjie, ‘The NewMaharajahs’, Sunday, 17–23 April 1988. | |
| Niraja Gopal Jayal, Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 46ff.; ‘The Wretched of Kalahandi’, Sunday, 19–25 January 1986. | |
| R. Jagannathan, ‘Welcome to Hard Times’, Sunday, 6–12 September 1987. | |
| M. V. Nadkarni, Farmers’ Movements in India (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1987); special issue on ‘New Farmers’ Movements in India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 1993–4. | |
| Vijay Naik and Shailaja Prasad, ‘On Levels of Living of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes’, Economic and Political Weekly, 28 July 1984. | |
| Tanka B. Subba, Ethnicity, State and Development: A Case Study of the Gorkhaland Movement in Darjeeling (New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 1992); ‘Peace in the Angry Hills?’, Sunday, 24–30 July 1988. | |
| Sunday, 27 August–2 September 1989; India Today, 15 September 1989; Business India, 26 June–9 July 1989. | |
| Sunday, 25–31 January 1987 and 28 August–3 September 1988. | |
| Shekhar Gupta, ’Punjab Extremists: Calling the Shots’, India Today, 28 February 1986. | |
| See India Today, issues of 30 April 1986 and 15 September 1988; Sunday, 3–9 January 1986. The violation of human rights by the police in Punjab throughout the 1980s and 1990s is extensively documented in Ram Narayan Kumar et al., Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab (Kathmandu: South Asia Forum for Human Rights, 2003). | |
| Reports in Sunday,19–25 May 1985, 19–25 July 1987 and 20–26 March and 1–7 June 1988 and in India Today, 15 June and 31 December 1986. | |
| Shekhar Gupta and Vipin Mudgal, ‘Operation Black Thunder: A Dramatic Success’, India Today, 15 June 1988. | |
| Interview in India Today, 30 November 1986. | |
| Sten Widmalm, ‘The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, 1975–1989’, in Amrita Basu and Atul Kohli, eds, Community Conflicts and the State in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 167ff. | |
| Sunday, 9–15 July 1989. | |
| For which see, among other works, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism: Its Origins and Development in the19th and 20th Centuries (London: C. Hurst and Co., 2000); Sankaran Krishna, Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000). | |
| Shekhar Gupta, ‘Operation Pawan: In a Rush to Vanquish’, India Today, 31 January 1988. | |
| Lt. Gen. S. C. Sardeshpande, Assignment Jaffna (New Delhi: Lancer, 1992), preface. | |
| Krishna, Postcolonial Insecurities, p. 154 and passim. | |
| See Gill, Dynasty, pp. 474–7. | |
| See report in India Today, 15 June 1989. | |
| Cover storyon ‘TheUgly Indian’, Sunday, 12–18 July 1987. | |
| See report in Sunday, 28 September–4 October 1988. | |
| Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, The Demolition: India at the Crossroads (New Delhi: HarperCollins India, 1994), pp. 260–2; Christophe Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to the 1990s (New Delhi: Penguin India, 1999), pp. 383ff. | |
| See People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Bhagalpur Riots (New Delhi: PUDR, 1990). | |
| Chitra Subramaniam, Bofors: The Story Behind the News (New Delhi: Viking, 1993). |
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