September 2010
NOTES
MR CHIDAMBARAM’S WAR
1. ‘The World’s Billionaires: #230 Anil Agarwal’, Forbes.com, 8 March 2007; Peter Popham, ‘Indian Villagers Pay a High Price as Commodity Boom Comes to Rural Orissa’, Independent (London), 4 August 2006; ‘The Vedanta Affair: The Nub of the CEC’s Report Is the Issue of Forest Land’, Telegraph (India), 27 November 2005, www.telegraphindia.com/1051127/asp/opinion/story_5528395.asp.
2. Press Trust of India, ‘Naxalism Biggest Internal Security Challenge: PM’, 13 April 2006, www.hindustantimes.com/Naxalism-biggest-challenge-PM/Article1-86531.aspx.
3. Manmohan Singh, ‘Full Text of Manmohan Singh’s Speech at CMs Meet’, IBN Live, 6 January 2009, http://ibnlive.in.com/news/full-text-of-manmohan-singhs-speech-at-cms-meet/82035-3.html.
4. Jawed Naqvi, ‘Singh Sees “Vital Interest” in Peace with Pakistan’, Dawn, 9 June 2009, www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-india-pm-willing-meet-pakistan-qs-08;http://pmindia.nic.in/speeches.htm
5. Rahul Pandita, ‘We Shall Certainly Defeat the Government’, Open, 17 October 2009, www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/we-shall-certainly-defeat-the-government.
6. Development Challenges in Extremist Affected Areas, Report of an Expert Group to Planning Commission (New Delhi: Government of India, 2008), 59–60.
7. Saikat Datta, ‘On War Footing’, Outlook,13 October 2009.See also Chhattisgarh Visthapan Virodhi Manch (Chhattisgarh Anti-Displacement Platform), leaflet, Raipur, India, 6 October 2009, http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2009/10/30/raipur-rally-against-displacement-oct-6-2009/.
8. ‘India, Pak Unite to Block Anti-Lanka Move at UN’, IndianExpress.com, 29 May 2009, www.indianexpress.com/news/india-pak-unite-to-block-antilanka-move-at/467703/.
9. On 24 December 2010 a sessions court in Raipur held Dr Binayak Sen guilty of sedition and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
10. Justice P.B. Sawant, remarks at hearing of Citizens Initiative for Peace, Speakers Hall, Constitution Club, New Delhi, 20 October 2009.
11. Hargopal, remarks at hearing of Citizens Initiative for Peace, Speakers Hall, Constitution Club, New Delhi, 20 October 2009.
12. Project Report by ITM EEC, Batch 20, Group 6, Pankal Tiwary, et al., Where Is the Land Going? A Study on Land Grabbing with Reference to Reliance Maha Munabi SEZ (2009), www.scribd.com/doc/26213514/Batch20-Group-6-Macro-Economics-Project-Report.
13. Samarendra Das and Felix Padel, Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010); United Nations Human Development Report 2009, http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/150.html.
14. P. Sainath, ‘Mass Media: Masses of Money?’ India Together, 25 December 2009, www.indiatogether.org/2009/dec/psa-masses.htm.
15. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, ‘Fix-Ed Case’, Tehelka, 14 November 2009, www.tehelka.com/story_main43.asp?filename=Bu141109fixed_case.asp; ‘Chidambaram Faces Flak on Vedanta Links’, Business Standard, 9 August 2006, www.business-standard.com/india/news/chidambaram-faces-flakvedanta-links/257339/.
16. Manoj Mitta, ‘Petitioners Didn’t Have Say on Kapadia Presence’, Times of India, 13 October 2009.
17. Man Mohan, ‘College That Trains Cops to Take on Naxalites’, Tribune Online (Chandigarh, India), 20 July 2009, www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090720/main8.htm.
18. Ashok Mitra, ‘The Phantom Enemy’, Telegraph (India), 23 October 2009.
WALKING WITH THE COMRADES
1. Trevor Selvam, ‘India for Selective Assassination of Its Own Citizens?’ Countercurrents.org, 31 January 2010, www.countercurrents.org/selvam310110.htm.
2. Canary Trap, ‘Karnataka Lok Ayukta Report on Illegal Mining’, 21 January 2010, http://canarytrap.in/2010/01/21/karnataka-lokayukta-report-on-illegal-mining/.
3. Man Mohan, ‘College That Trains Cops to Take on Naxalites’, Tribune Online (Chandigarh, India), 20 July 2009, www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090720/main8.htm.
4. Shoma Chaudhury, ‘The Quiet Soldiers of Compassion’, Tehelka, 23 August 2008.
5. Press Trust of India, ‘Naxalism Biggest Internal Security Challenge: PM’, 13 April 2006, www.hindustantimes.com/Naxalism-biggest-challenge-PM/Article1-86531.aspx.
6. See the Ministry of Rural Development’s draft report of the Committee on State Agrarian Relations and the Unfinished Task of Land Reform, Vol. 1 (March 2009), www.rd.ap.gov.in/IKPLand/MRD_Committee_Report_V_01_Mar_09.pdf, and compare this with the final report, http://dolr.nic.in/Committee%20Report.doc.
7. See Frontline, 21 October 2005.
8. The Human Rights Forum (HRF) denies that Balagopal made such a press release.
9. See Judgement of the Supreme Court of India on Mohammad Afzal vs the State (NCT of Delhi), 4 August 2005.
10. Charu Mazumdar, ‘Hate, Stamp and Smash Centrism’, May 1970, in The Collected Works of Charu Mazumdar (Deshabrati Prakashani, publishing house of the Undivided C.P.I. [M-L]), transcribed on the Marxist Internet Archive, www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mazumdar/1970/05/x01.htm.
TRICKLEDOWN REVOLUTION
1. Anonymous, ‘The Goose and the Commons’, Tickler, 1 February 1821.
2. Address by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 8 July 2005.
3. Samanth Subramanian and Krish Raghav, ‘The Economics of the Games’, Wall Street Journal and LiveMint.com, 26 October 2010, www.livemint.com/2009/10/26205604/The-economics-of-the-Games.html.
4. See Geeta Pandey, ‘Delhi Street Vendors Evicted before Commonwealth Games’, BBC News, Delhi, 20 August 2010.
5. ‘Delhi to Banish Beggars Ahead of Commonwealth Games’, Times of India, 1 September 2009.
6. ‘Nearly 80% of India Lives on Half Dollar a Day’, Reuters, 8 August 2007, www.reuters.com/article/idUSDEL218894; ‘Foodgrains That Could Feed 1.4 Crore People Rot’, CNN-IBN, 27 July 2010.
7. Central Statistical Organization, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, Millennium Development Goals—India Country Report 2009. See also United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009 (New York: United Nations, 2009), p. 12.
8. Emily Wax and Rama Lakshmi, ‘As Commonwealth Games Loom, “Unfit” Athletes’ Village Adds to India’s Problems’, Washington Post, 24 September 2010.
9. Jason Burke, ‘More of World’s Poor Live in India Than in All Sub-Saharan Africa, Says Study’, The Guardian (London), 14 July 2010.
10. Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh, Indian Independence Day Speech, Red Fort, New Delhi, 15 August 2010.
11. C.P. Chandrasekhar, ‘How Significant Is IT in India?’ The Hindu, 31 May 2010.
12. ‘India Needs Labour Transitions to Remove Poverty’, Reuters, 6 April 2009.
13. S. Sakthivel and Pinaki Joddar, ‘Unorganised Sector Workforce in India: Trends, Patterns and Social Security Coverage’, Economic and Political Weekly, 27 May 2006.
14. Utsa Patnaik, ‘Food Stocks and Hunger in India’, paper, 3 August 2002, www.macroscan.org/pol/aug02/pol030802Food_Stocks.htm.
15. ‘Mukesh Ambani Tops for the Third Year as India’s Richest’, Forbes Asia, 30 September 2010. The article notes: The combined net worth of India’s 100 richest people is $300 billion, up from $276 billion last year. This year, there are 69 billionaires on the India Rich List, 17 more than last year.’ India’s 2009 GDP was $1.2 trillion.
16. The Associated Press reported in October 2010, ‘Today, in a country where 300 million people live on less than $1 a day, the economy is growing at nearly 9 percent and the rich shop for Porsches and Louis Vuitton purses. The number of Indian millionaires jumped by 51 percent last year, reaching more than 127,000.’ Tim Sullivan, ‘Indian Cram School Town Redraws Lines of Success’, Associated Press, 24 October 2010.
17. Ashok Mitra, A Prattler’s Tale: Bengal, Marxism, Governance, translated from the Bengali by Sipra Bhattacharya (Kolkata: Samya Books, 2007).
18. ‘I Am Your Soldier in Delhi: Rahul to Tribals’, Press Trust o
f India, 26 August 2010.
19. P. Chidambaram, The Harish C. Mahindra 2007 Lecture, ‘Poor Rich Countries: The Challenges of Development’, Harvard University South Asia Initiative, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 18 October 2007; www.indianembassy.org/prdetail697/finance-minister -mr.-p.-chidambaram’s-speech-at-the-harvard- university-south-asia-initiative-the-harish-c.-mahindra-2007 -lecture-on-andquot%3Bpoor-rich-countries%3A-the- challenges-of-developmentandquot%3B.
20. Ajay Dandekar and Chitrangada Choudhury, ‘PESA, Left Wing Extremism and Governance: Concerns and Challenges in India’s Tribal Districts’, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, commissioned by Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India, New Delhi, no date, www.tehelka.com/channels/News/2010/july/10/PESAchapter.pdf.
21. Raman Kirpal, ‘Why You Must Read This Censored Chapter’, Tehelka,10 July 2010.
22. Ernesto Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare, third ed., eds. Brian Loveman and Thomas M. Davies, Jr (Rowman and Littlfield, 2002), p. 51.
23. Jawed Naqvi, ‘Singh Sees “Vital Interest” in Peace with Pakistan’, Dawn, 9 June 2009; http://pmindia.nic.in/speeches.htm
24. Bhagat Singh’s Last Petition, no date, www.shahidbhagatsingh.org/index.asp?link=bhagat_petition.
25. B.G. Verghese, ‘Daylight at the Thousand-Star Hotel’, Outlook, 3 May 2010.
26. Chemkuri [Cherukuri] Azad Rajkumar, ‘A Last Note to a Neo-Colonialist’, Outlook, 19 July 2010.
27. Partho Sarathi Ray, ‘The Rs. 1500 Crore “Maoist Empire” or How the Police Plants Stories in the Press’, Sanhati, 16 April 2010.
28. ‘Chhattisgarh on Top Alert after Deadly Naxal Attack’, Press Trust of India, 18 May 2010; Joseph John, ‘Maoists Chopped Limbs, Slit Throats of Injured CRPF Men’, www.indianexpress.com/news/maoists-chopped-limbs-slit-throats-of-injur/641291/
29. Rakhi Chakrabarty, ‘Raped Repeatedly, Naxal Leader Quits Red Ranks’, Times of India, 24 August 2010.
30. ‘Air Chief Releases Joint Doctrines’, Ministry of Defence, 16 June 2010. See also ‘Armed Forces Release New Warfare Doctrine’, Press Trust of India, 16 June 2010; and ‘Armed Forces Release Two Doctrines on Joint Warfare’, Press Trust of India, 16 June 2010.
31. Gautam Navlakha, ‘Azad’s Assassination: An Insight into the Indian State’s Response to Peoples’ Resistance’, Sanhati, 25 July 2010.
32. ‘Get Ready to Fight Naxals, Said Chief. Or Did He?’ Indian Express, 17 July 2010. The article notes, interestingly, ‘Hours after it put out a press release . . . the Defence wing of the Press Information Bureau withdrew the release. No reason was assigned.’
33. ‘IAF Can Fire in Self-Defence during Anti-Maoist Operations’, Hindustan Times, 12 August 2010.
34. See Justice (Retired) B.P. Jeevan Reddy, Report of the Committee to Review the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958, submitted to the Government of India in June 2005.
35. Supriya Sharma, ‘Finally, Army Moves into Maoist Territory’, Times of India, 14 December 2010.
36. ‘Edited Text of 12,262-word Response by Azad, Spokesperson, Central Committee, CPI (Maoist)’, The Hindu, 14 April 2010.
37. South Asia Terrorism Portal, Table: ‘Fatalities in Left-wing Extremism—2010’, www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/maoist/data_sheets/fatalitiesnaxal.asp.
38. ‘Wanted Naxals Protected by Forests, Mines’, Indo-Asian News Service, Raipur, 8 April 2010.
39. Azad, ‘Hail the Daring and the Biggest Ever Guerrilla Attack on the Hired Mercenaries of the Indian State Carried Out by the Heroic PLGA Guerrillas in Chhattisgarh!’ press statement for the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist), 8 April 2010.
40. ‘Fresh Maoist Attacks Feared in Chhattisgarh Towns’, Sify News, 9 April 2010.
41. Ashish Khetan, ‘CRPF Men Faked Log Entries to Skip Patrolling’, India Today, 19 May 2010. Also see E.N. Rammohan Committee report.
42. ‘44 Killed as Maoists Blow Up Bus in Dantewada’, Times of India, 18 May 2010.
43. ‘Bihar Abduction: Body of Havildar Lucas Recovered’, Indian Express, 3 September 2010.
44. ‘Bihar Hostage Crisis Over, Maoists Release 3 Abducted Cops’, Times of India, 6 September 2010.
45. Sumanta Banerjee, In the Wake of Naxalbari: A History of the Naxalite Movement in India (Calcutta: Subarnarekha, 1980).
46. ‘Rs 14000cr Maoist Balm’, Telegraph (Calcutta), 6 July 2010.
47. Kaustav Banerjee and Partha Saha, ‘The NREGA, the Maoists and the Developmental Woes of the Indian State’, Economic and Political Weekly, 10 July 2010.
48. Nirmalangshu Mukherji, ‘Arms Over People’, Outlook, 19 May 2010.
49. Quoting the ‘Aims and Objects of Vishva Hindu Parishad’, no date.
50. See Arundhati Roy, The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy (New Delhi: Viking, Penguin India, 2008), pp. 225–30.
51. Press Trust of India, ‘Chhattisgarh: 55 Killed in Naxal Bloodbath’, 15 March 2007.
52. Samarendra Das and Felix Padel, Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010).
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