from Louis Malle's documentary Phantom India (L'inde fantôme)
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November 12, 2009
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- OPERATION GREEN HUNT: Indian government targets tribals and guerillaist leftists
- SWAT: What is the class nature of the conflict in Swat, Pakistan?
- SECTION 377: reactionary law criminalizing consensual sex acts is "read down" by Delhi High Court
- LAW COLLEGE clash: untouchable students attacked on campus
- ORISSA: another mass atrocity led by Hindu right against untouchable Christians
- ORISSA: Hindu right leads mass atrocity against untouchable Christians
- TASLIMA NASRIN forced out of Calcutta
- NANDIGRAM: CPI(M) retakes rebellious village
- AGRARIAN CRISIS and peasant suicides in India
- SINGUR: CPI(M) cadres raped and killed peasant girl resisting land seizure
- TASLIMA NASRIN attacked by fundamentalist Muslim party in Hyderabad
- MAYAWATI—female, untouchable leader of capitalist party—elected chief minister of major state
- SACHAR committee report on deprivation of Indian Muslims
- NANDIGRAM massacre: state terror against poor peasants resisting land seizure
- MUKHTAR MAI: a low-caste Pakistani woman who stood up
- KHAIRLANJI massacre and mass protests in Maharashtra
- BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS' mass wildcat strikes
- RESERVATIONS (affirmative action) bill proposed
- KALINGANAGAR: repression of tribals resisting seizure of their land
- GURGAON: police repression of striking Honda workers
- TSUNAMI relief: caste discrimination
articles
- What is caste? (2009)
- Marxism vs. petty-bourgeois dalit politics (2009)
- why Marxists must fight special oppression (2009)
- notes on the history of Pakistan (2009)
- towards a materialist analysis of caste in India (2008)
- reply to n+1 in defense of the revolutionary tradition (2008)
- Maharasthra burning: mass outrage after an untouchable lynching in Khairlanji (2006)
- reply to Jared Diamond on the social function of caste (2005)
- on the police repression of striking workers in Haryana (2005)
- on the Muslim question in India (2005)
- on caste discrimination against survivors of the South Asian tsunami (2005)
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- on some recent atrocities against untouchables (2002)
Marxists on India
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sources hosted on anti-caste
- 1855—"About the Griefs of the Mangs and the Mahars" by Mukthabai
- 1867—Karl Marx on the Indian village community
- 1928—"What Is the Permanent Revolution?" by Leon Trotsky
- 1930—"Historic References on the Theory of 'Permanent Revolution'" by Leon Trotsky
- 1930—"The Revolution in India: Its Tasks and Dangers" by Leon Trotsky
- 1939—"India Faced with Imperialist War: An Open Letter to the Workers of India" by Leon Trotsky
- 1939—"Three Concepts of the Russian Revolution" by Leon Trotsky
- 1942—"The Classes of India and Their Political Roles: A Thesis of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India"
- 1992—"The 'Quit India' Movement 50 Years On: Stalinist Alliance with Churchill Betrayed Indian Revolution" (Workers Hammer)
- 1993—"India: Hindu Fascists Whip Up Religious Slaughter" (Workers Hammer)
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