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My Seditious Heart

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by Arundhati Roy


  Chinese Revolution, 531, 553, 595

  Chittisinghpura massacre (2000), 294, 803

  Chomsky, Noam, 189, 206–20, 331, 894n2

  Choudhury, Chitrangada: “PESA, Left-Wing Extremism and Governance,” 582, 598

  Christianity, 30, 141, 163, 190, 275, 334, 337, 474, 555, 652, 687, 702, 703–4, 723, 740, 744, 749, 752, 765–66, 798, 800, 826, 916n1; Ambedkar and, 777, 784; attacks on, 450, 474, 600, 802–3, 807; converts to, 672, 687, 748, 799, 932n6; Dalit Christians, 450, 474, 600, 672, 702–3, 799, 807, 932n6; Gandhi and, 707, 709, 725, 730, 779; Syrian Christians, 668, 751

  Chugtai, Ismat: “A Pair of Hands,” 940n83

  Chuhras, 747

  Churchill, Winston, 194, 719

  Church of England, 519, 723

  Climate Change Conference, 501, 506

  Clinton, William, 116, 149, 335, 415; visit to India (2000), 77, 79, 114, 390, 803

  CNN, 198, 223, 242, 249–50, 259, 471; CNN-IBN, 370–71, 405, 622

  Coalition of the Willing, 244

  Cobras, 493, 536, 577

  Coca-Cola, 19, 134, 163, 325, 469, 616, 638, 641

  Cokhamela, 687

  Cold War, 4, 141, 486, 636, 650

  Colombia, 193, 354

  Colorado (US): Denver, 902n11, 916n2

  Columbia University, 674, 744, 945n181

  Columbus, Christopher, 212, 415, 418

  Columbus Day (US), 212, 415

  Committee for the Defense and Release of Saibaba, 794

  Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, 268

  Committee for Union and Progress (Ottoman Empire), 419–20, 424, 466

  Commonwealth Games, 508, 571

  Communist Party of India (CPI), 531, 594–96, 648, 756, 760, 762, 811, 823, 947n209

  Communist Party of India (CPI, Maoist), 427, 490–91, 495, 526, 565, 569, 593–94, 600, 602–3, 765, 788, 790, 791. See also Naxalites

  Communist Party of India (CPI(M), Marxist), 505, 594–96, 654, 665, 762

  Communist Party of India (CPI(ML), Marxist-Leninist), 491, 525–26. See also Naxalites

  Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), 894n44

  Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), 302, 636

  Congo Free State. See Belgian Congo

  Congress Party. See Indian National Congress

  Constituent Assembly of India, 694–95, 783, 938n67, 939n75

  Cornell University, 342, 649

  Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), 515–16, 737

  Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 632, 634–36

  Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College, 516

  Cuba, 5, 140, 213, 256, 330

  Cultural Revolution (China), 602

  Czech Republic: Prague, 115

  Dabholkar, Narendra, 812

  Dachau concentration camp, 212

  Dainik Bhaskar, 627

  Dainik Jagran, 682

  Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 648, 686, 937n48

  Dalit Panthers, 647, 762, 782, 819

  Dalit Power movement, 647

  Dalits, 90, 120, 163, 301, 356, 424, 426, 457, 490, 601, 624, 649, 652, 666, 669–70, 679, 682–87, 698, 747, 763, 774, 785, 798, 813–19, 830, 867, 934n18, 938n62; attacks on, 450, 474, 600, 670–72, 746, 796, 802, 807, 931nn3–4, 932n9; Dalit Buddhists, 669, 799, 932n6; Dalit Christians, 450, 474, 600, 672, 702–3, 799, 807, 932n6; Dalit movements, xxii, 647–48, 671, 673–74, 693, 762, 782, 819, 933n13; Dalit Muslims, 672, 701–3, 799, 932n6, 940n84; Dalit Sikhs, 672, 702–3, 799, 932n6, 933n10; definition, 864; displaced by dams, 33, 53, 58–59, 95, 100–101, 117, 155, 183, 234, 429, 449; Gandhi’s views on, 725, 749; Maoists and, 596; role in Gujarat attacks, 162, 175; role in politics, 677, 783, 936n38, 946n190, 947n209, 948n222, 950n242; attacks on, 781–82; treatment by the Indian state, 275, 296, 349, 555, 586, 772, 789, 826, 932n6. See also Scheduled Castes (SCs); Untouchables

  Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, 560

  Dandakaranya forest, 501, 517, 524–26, 530–31, 535, 540, 543, 551, 554–56, 560, 564, 566, 570, 598–99, 643

  Dandekar, Ajay: “PESA, Left-Wing Extremism and Governance,” 582, 598

  Dange, S. A., 648, 756, 763, 947n209; Marxism and Ancient Indian Culture, 757

  Darul-uloom Deobandi Islamic seminary, 630

  Das, Samarendra: Out of This Earth, 500

  December 13th (film), 383, 389, 395, 655–57. See also Indian Parliament attack (12/13/2001)

  “Declaration of Empathy,” 674

  Deendayal Research Institute, 422

  Defense Policy Board (US), 199, 267–68

  Delhi (India), xiv, xxiv, 29, 34, 62, 77, 85, 103, 159, 177, 191, 368, 370, 387, 398, 400–401, 406, 496, 553, 566, 591, 608–9, 613, 654, 657, 711, 796, 807, 809–11, 823–25, 859; activism in, 146, 153; Balmiki workers in, 749; Bandit Queen screening in, 836, 847, 856; Commonwealth Games in, 508–9; industry in, 158; Jamia Nagar, 458; Khan Market, 477; media industries in, 681; New Delhi, 87, 150, 206, 227, 334, 375, 390, 437, 439, 560, 660, 681, 870n16, 914n8, 932n7, 949n228; Jantar Mantar, 380, 384, 386, 537, 570–73, 601; Paharganj, 57; poverty in, 117–18; RDF in, 791; Sikh massacre (1984), 166, 232, 297, 412, 474, 805; Supreme Court in, 26, 424; violence in, 448, 458, 570, 672, 803–4

  Delhi High Court, 158, 377, 384, 389, 393–97, 405–6, 656–57, 683, 820, 913n1, 916n29

  Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), 629, 636

  Delhi Police, 153, 382, 397, 822, 825; Special Cell, 363–64, 366–67, 376, 381, 384–85, 393–95, 399–400, 404–7, 458–59, 655, 663, 804

  Delhi University, 364, 381–83, 402, 787, 794, 804, 864, 949n231; Ramlal Anand College, 787

  Democracy Now, 271, 329

  Democratic Party (US), 276, 335–36, 357, 434, 796

  Democratic Republic of the Congo, 412, 415–17, 473, 487, 649, 730

  Desai, Mahadev, 946n189

  Desai, Morarji, 29, 949n231

  Desai, Valji G., 942n129

  Devi, Phoolan, xxiv, 836–60. See also Bandit Queen

  Dhamma, 784, 945n181

  Dhar, M. K.: Open Secrets, 407

  Dhasal, Namdeo, 762, 782

  Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR), 628–29

  Dink, Hrant, 408–10, 466, 488

  Dink, Rakel, 488

  Disturbed Areas Act (India), 443

  Doke, Joseph: M. K. Gandhi, 731–32

  Dominican Republic, 84, 135, 193

  Dongria Kondh, 489–90, 519, 578, 630

  Dravidians, 817–18

  Du Bois, W. E. B.: The Souls of Black Folk, 723

  Durban Post Office, 715, 752

  Durga Puja, 369, 818

  Dutt, Barkha, 405, 587

  Eastern Frontier Rifles, 563, 577

  East India Company, 115, 426

  East Pakistan, 553, 664. See also Bangladesh

  East Timor, 257, 290

  Economic and Political Weekly, 599

  Economic Regeneration Programme, 874n83

  Egypt, 195, 258

  El Salvador, 135, 140, 193, 213

  the Emergency (India, 1975–77), 10, 585, 587, 801

  England, 262, 302, 413, 519, 569, 573, 669, 706, 717, 951n245; London, 246, 257, 337, 360, 489, 712, 714, 729, 735, 744, 766, 768; Penshurst, 736. See also Great Britain; United Kingdom

  English (language), 20, 57, 103, 110, 163, 165, 227, 287, 388, 407, 474, 524, 627, 681–82, 690, 715, 718–19, 729, 757, 787–88, 938n56, 942n129

  Enron, 80, 86–89, 99, 165, 207, 222, 224, 286–87, 302, 311, 359–60, 468, 471, 876n21

  Esquire, 843, 854

  Essar Group, 427, 501, 622–23, 630

  Essar Steel, 532–33, 536, 926n13

  Euphrates River, 242, 260

  Europe, 148, 213, 476, 490, 495, 622, 636, 650, 686, 697, 720, 740, 809, 947n207; Eastern, 262; fascism in, xxiv, 212, 369, 418–19, 710, 765; imperialism of, 221, 284, 339–40, 414, 417–19, 426, 580, 604; relationship with the US, 249, 251, 332, 336, 735; Western, 676; Zionism in, 194. See also individual countries and regions

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sp; European Union, 175, 763

  Evian, 76, 80

  Evidence Act (India), 392

  Export Development Canada, 328

  Facebook, 666, 808

  Faiz, Faiz Ahmed, 488, 819; “Hum Dekhenge” (“We Will Witness the Day”), 567

  Farakka Barrage, 72

  Farooq, Mirwaiz Umar, 443–44

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, US), 127, 135, 140, 268

  Federal Communications Commission (FCC, US), 266

  Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), 813–14, 832

  First Round Table Conference, 689, 750, 766, 768

  First War of Independence (1857 Mutiny), 570, 705

  Fischer, Louis, 772–73

  Fisher, Donald, 929n52

  Five Member Group (FMG), 52, 872n52

  Forbes, 338, 678

  Ford Foundation, 342, 616, 634, 636–38, 641–42, 646, 648–49, 651, 763; Ramon Magsaysay Emergent Leadership Award

  Ford Motor Company, 302

  Forest Rights Act (India), 478, 598

  Fox News, 245, 457

  France, 34, 245, 249, 262, 328, 336, 417–18, 644, 740, 850, 942n114. See also French Revolution

  Franks, Tommy, 262, 265

  Friedman, Milton, 638

  Friedman, Thomas, 200; The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 201

  Friends of the Earth, 46

  Frontline, xix, 156, 549

  Fund for the Republic/Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 636

  Gaekwad, Sayajirao, 743–45

  Galeano, Eduardo, 406

  Gallup International, 262, 332

  Ganapathy, Comrade, 491

  Gandhamardhan hills, 585

  Gandhi (film), 689

  Gandhi, Devdas, 736, 946n196

  Gandhi, Indira, 10, 18, 166, 173, 474, 585, 587, 805

  Gandhi, Lingaraja, 945n188

  Gandhi, Maneka, 57

  Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 17, 108, 173, 182, 274–75, 428, 430–31, 477, 494, 498, 526, 540, 604, 613, 616, 628, 673, 686, 706, 710, 738, 741, 753, 759, 776, 785, 861, 866, 938n59, 943n137, 944n166, 946n196, 951n247; assassination of, 711–12, 773–74, 801; “Equal Distribution,” 737–38; Gandhi (film), 689; Hind Swaraj, 694, 729–31, 944n156; “The Ideal Bhangi,” 777–78; Mahatma title, 707, 712–14, 732, 736, 739–40; “My Second Experience in Gaol,” 721–22; Poona Pact, 772–75, 782, 950n242, 951n245; “The Pyramid vs. the Oceanic Circle,” 690; relationship with Ambedkar, xxii, 604, 676, 687–94, 696, 698–99, 712–13, 726, 729, 740, 742–44, 749, 754–57, 760, 766–77, 779–81, 799, 825, 937n53, 938n56, 947n202, 950n234; relationship with Nehru, 28, 722–23; Salt March to Dandi, 164, 290, 308, 344–45, 768, 864; Satyagraha in South Africa, 719; in South Africa, 714–37, 742–43, 757–58, 942n113; views on Adivasis, 763, 766; views on big dams, 939n76; views on Christianity, 707, 709, 725, 730, 779; views on Khilafat movement, 708–9; views on Ram Rajya, 697, 707; views on satyagraha, 594, 601, 659, 708–9, 717, 719, 724–27, 733, 736–37, 751–52, 755–56, 768–70, 867, 942n129, 947n202, 947n207; views on the caste system, 676, 678, 690–92, 713, 725, 745, 747–49, 751–52, 755–56, 769–75, 777–80, 864, 937n52, 946n189. See also Non-Cooperation Movement

  Gandhi, Rahul, 516–17, 578, 690, 946n190

  Gandhi, Rajiv, 4, 145, 166, 422, 805, 850

  Gandhi, Sonia, 334, 478, 577–78

  Gandhi, Varun, 481

  Gandhians, 599, 601, 604, 612–13, 639

  Ganga River, 72, 469

  Gates, Bill, 634, 640

  Gates Foundation, 641

  Gawde, Suklal, 561

  Geelani, Bismillah, 394, 657

  Geelani, Syed A. R., 228, 364, 367, 376–77, 381–88, 392–96, 400, 406–7, 437, 443–44, 458, 655–57, 804, 864, 930n3

  General Electric (GE), 82–83, 359–60

  Geneva Convention, 245, 261

  German Ministry of Economic

  Cooperation and Development, 102

  Germany, 5, 59, 99, 102, 106, 249, 262, 336, 346, 418, 431, 651, 672, 717, 760–61, 903n35; Auschwitz, 212; Berlin, 466–67; Dachau, 212; Dresden, 415; genocide in Southwest Africa, 417; Hamburg, 415; Nazi, 34, 93, 164, 175–76, 212, 369, 421, 424, 450, 710

  Ghadar Party (Revolt Party, India), 705–6, 941n95

  Ghana, 288, 556

  Ghandy, Anuradha, 830

  Ghandy, Kobad, 506

  Gilani, Iftikhar, 385, 407; My Days in Prison, 386

  Girishankar, Navin, 928n46

  Girni Kamgar Union, 756–57

  Goa (India), 57, 164, 168, 555, 630, 826; Bhatpal, 559

  The God of Small Things, xvii, xxii–xxiii, 7, 110–11, 156

  Godrej (company), 636, 648

  Godrej, Jansheyd N., 636

  Godse, Nathuram, 773; Why I Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, 711–12

  Goering, Hermann, 261

  Goldenweiser, A. A., 744

  Goldman, Emma, 723

  Golwalkar, M. S., 800; We, or, Our Nationhood Defined, 420–21, 450, 710

  Gondi (language), 523–24, 538, 541, 543, 546, 562

  Gond people, 513, 526, 538, 764, 818

  Goodman, Amy, 189

  Good Morning America, 265

  Goswami, Arnab, 460, 587

  Goswami, Rajiv, 949n231

  Government of India Act (India), 932n6, 949n228

  Govindacharya, K. N., 476

  Grasim Rayon Factory, 118, 239–40

  Great Britain, 20, 41, 104, 168, 192, 263, 351–52, 358, 669, 686, 750, 767, 942n114, 944n166, 946n190; British colonialism, 16–17, 115, 281, 290, 302, 330, 345, 417–18, 427, 451, 513, 526, 533, 541, 570–71, 583, 677, 680, 688–89, 701, 703–10, 712, 714–21, 725–26, 730, 732–37, 739, 741–43, 756, 761, 764–65, 768, 770, 776–77, 798, 800, 817, 943n132, 949n224 (See also individual colonies); creation of Mandatory Palestine, 194; in War on Terror, 180, 198, 225, 242–51, 259, 357, 903n35; in WWII, 942n122. See also England; United Kingdom; Wales

  Grenada, 140, 213, 256

  Greyhounds, 493

  Grievance Redressal Committee, 57, 325

  Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, 245, 352

  the Guardian, 837

  Guatemala, 40, 47, 140, 193, 213

  Guha, Ramachandra: India after Gandhi, 428; India before Gandhi, 944n156

  Gujarat (India), xiv, 14, 29, 33, 167, 231, 275, 345, 481, 682–83, 688, 703, 714, 774, 865, 910n12, 918n26, 934n18; 2001 earthquake, 89; Ahmedabad, 42, 71, 161, 423, 448, 449, 458, 757, 805, 807, 809, 945n188; Juhapura, 450; anti-Muslim pogrom (2002), xxi, 161–64, 166, 168–70, 172, 175, 190, 222–23, 232, 274, 285–86, 296–97, 300, 302, 350, 392, 411–14, 422–23, 428, 431, 450–51, 455–56, 465, 473–75, 497, 611, 615, 628, 656, 781–82, 792–93, 796, 805–6, 808, 866, 890n47; Baroda/Vadodara, 46, 56, 61, 71, 160, 168, 743–44, 872n52; Bharuch, 38, 64; Bhavnagar, 748; BJP/RSS leaders, 161–62, 172, 421–24, 451, 473, 553, 710, 803, 806; dams in, xii–xiv, 37–39, 42, 44, 46, 49–57, 60–72, 97, 117, 236, 566, 628; Dang, 802; Ferkuwa, 46–47; Gandhinagar, 71, 774; Godhra, 160–61, 164, 169, 294, 781, 805; Gora, 38, 62; Jetpur, 322; Junagadh, 826; Kevadiya Colony, xiii–xv; Kheda, 42, 71, 886n1; Kothie, xiii, xv, 60; Kutch, 42, 50, 67, 70–71, 871n36; Mehsana, 42, 71, 174, 302, 615; Modassa, 807; Mokhdi, 873n60; Porbandar, 713, 740; Rajpipla, 61; Saurashtra, 42, 67, 70–71, 871n36; Sikka, 25; state violence in, 233, 235, 295, 303, 350, 423; sunrise belt, 118; Surat, 911n12, 919n26; Umergaon, 303; Undava, 72–73; Vadodara, 886n1

  Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 951n247

  Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act (India), 774, 951n247

  Gujarati (language), 676, 690, 718–19, 729, 938n56, 942n129, 946n189

  Gujarati, Wali, 161–62

  Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation, 952n259

  Gulf War (first), 188, 197–99, 248, 257, 358, 471. See also Operation Desert Storm

  Gupta, Dipankar, 933n13

  Guru, Afsan, 364, 376–77, 384, 394, 655–56, 804

  Guru, Ayyankali and Sree, 687

  Guru, Shaukat Hussain, 376–77, 382, 393–96, 400, 458, 6
55–56, 804

  The Hague, 79–80

  Hai, Abdul, 610–11

  Haksar, Nandita, 364, 386

  Halbi (language), 524, 541

  Halliburton, 148, 249, 286, 359–60

  Halliday, Denis, 288, 414

  Hamas, 197, 643

  “Hamle Ke Sau Din” (“Hundred Days of the Attack”), 388

  Hamza, Abu. See Mohammad, Mohammad Yasin Fateh (Abu Hamza)

  Hanuman, 22, 509, 863

  Harihar, Swami Achhutanand, 687, 705

  Harijan (newspaper), 774–75

  Harijans. See Untouchables

  Harijan Sevak Sangh (Harijan Service Society), 774–76

  Harsud Doobvasi Sangharsha Morcha, 321, 324

  Harvard University, 342, 507, 579; Business School, 649; Mahindra Humanities Center, 649

  Haryana (India), 68, 615, 685, 936n44; Gannaur, 322; Gurgaon, 103; Jhajjar, 931n4

  Hashimpura massacre (1987), 793

  Hazare, Anna, 612, 614–15, 617, 638–39, 924n2; Team Anna, 613, 616

  Hazratbal shrine, 440, 607

  Hedgewar, K. B., 420, 710

  Herero people, 417, 427, 431

  Herman, Ed, 189, 894n2

  Himachal Pradesh (India), 328; Shimla, 452

  Himalayas, 434, 469

  Hindi (language), 280, 293, 329, 332, 477, 511, 517, 519, 524, 539, 541–42, 627, 681–82

  The Hindu, 590, 612, 654, 682, 928n46

  Hindu Code Bill (India), 695, 938n68

  Hindu Dharma Jagran Manch, 422, 802

  Hindu Mahasabha Party (All-India Hindu Grand Assembly, India), 705, 711, 764, 773–74, 951n245

  Hindu Marriage Act (India), 938n68, 952n263

  Hindu Munnani, 940n84

  Hindu nationalism, xviii, xxiv, 10–11, 86, 171, 180, 275, 420, 446, 459–60, 470, 710, 729, 757, 774, 800, 802, 864, 941n92; Babri Majid attack (1992), xvii, 19, 93, 166, 232, 301–2, 304, 422, 452, 455–56, 470, 482, 785, 801, 805, 863, 868; Gandhi assassination and, 774; in government, xxi, 333, 774, 911n28, 941n95; Gujarat pogrom (2002), xxi, 161–64, 166, 168–70, 172, 175, 190, 222–23, 232, 274, 285–86, 296–97, 300, 302, 350, 392, 411–14, 422–23, 428, 431, 450–51, 455–56, 465, 473–75, 497, 611, 615, 628, 656, 781–82, 792–93, 796, 805–6, 808, 866, 891n47; neoliberalism and, xxi; views on Untouchable votes, 702, 781, 798–99, 940n84. See also Advani, Lal Krishna (L. K.); Bajrang Dal; Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, India); Hindu Rashtra; Hindutva; Modi, Narendra; Ram Mandir; Rashtriya Janata Dal (National People’s Party, RJD, India); Rath Yatra (Chariots’ Journey); Sangh Parivar; Shiv Sena; Togadia, Pravin; Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council, VHP)

 

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