If we look at the totality of public and private censorship, we see that while religion does come up (and provokes global hand-wringing), it is not always the overriding concern. Rather it is challenges to state power, initially class-based critiques in the 1970s, and later critical writing organized around centrist polarities, that provoke the deepest backlash. Journalists who benefit from business opportunities and government linkages complicate matters– as beneficiaries of state or business patronage, they lose editorial independence and are also likely to be targets of recrimination after regime change.
Once a parliamentarian signs this ‘Oath’ he/she cannot propose to get out of the so-called ‘Islamic ideology’ bond by proposing deletion of the controversial articles of the constitution
You tube video with full recording of Rajya Sabha TV’s India’s world programme episode on Pakistan elections scheduled on May 11, 2013.
The victory of fascism in Europe between the wars was an incalculable human catastrophe. This collection of essays contains the first-ever English translation of Arthur Rosenberg’s fascinating analysis of the emergence of fascism in Europe, as well as a short introduction to the essay that explains its significance, and then four contributions that extend the framework to India – dealing in turn with Savarkar and the politics of the Hindu Mahasabha (Srinivasan), communalism as the Indian version of fascism and its roots in the majoritarian ideologies of the nation-state (Simeon), and the fascism of the Sangh Parivar as this had emerged by the early ’90s when concerted communal mobilisations unleashed a spate of violence, foreshadowing the even more horrific events of 2002 (Sumit Sarkar). Unlike most left-wing theories of fascism, Rosenberg’s work made the mass base of fascism central to its political success.
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