Brands of tolerance
IN THE NAME OF THE SECULAR: Contemporary Cultural Activism in India. By Rustom Bharucha. Oxford University Press, 197pp, Pounds 15.00. ISBN 0 19 564222 8. In India secularism is a subject that...
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The Iron Duke's less famous footprints
THE MAKING OF ARTHUR WELLESLEY. By Anthony S. Bennell. Sangam 235pp, Pounds 17.95. ISBN 0 86311 601 9. During this the 50th anniversary of Indian independence, it seems appropriate to consider the...
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Lost, not forgotten, cities of the Indus
SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 1993. Edited by Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 445pp (Volume one), 442pp (Volume two), $195.00 (both volumes). ISBN 951 41 0729 2. The 70...
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A passport to enlightenment
SOUTHERN INDIA: Blue Guide. By George Michell. A and C Black 576pp, Pounds 16.99. ISBN 0 7136 4158 4. Among the many travel guides to India the new Blue Guide covering south India is the latest and...
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ELS
LAST week's article about Mr Roger Ward, the Association of Colleges' chief executive, alleged that ELS (Education Lecturing Services) had made payments to Mr Ward. The article made the erroneous...
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Archives state sparks fears
THE ROYAL Commission on Historical Manuscripts has voiced deep concern about the condition of heritage documents held by five "well established" universities. In its 1996/97 annual review, the...
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Britain blocks tenure resolution
BRITAIN and Australia have refused to support a Unesco declaration aimed at protecting academic tenure in higher education. The text, approved by the organisation's 186 member countries during its...
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Authors may miss out on copyright cash
ACADEMIC writers must keep hold of the copyright to their work or risk losing millions of pounds in income, the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society has warned. Authors will be able to claim...
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A suitable language?
As India embraces western affluence, more and more of its people want to learn English, the lingua franca of thought and commerce. But is their neglect of India's mother tongues a tragic error, asks...
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Intellectual seeding
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...
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Science with spirit
Scientists, in tune with the people, are using theirinfluence to move them towards a modernity that is all their own, writes Yash Pal My working life started a couple of years after independence. I...
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Enter the Second Republic?
Will India remain the world's largest democracy? Meghnad Desai describes the changes needed to ensure it holds the title. Forty-seven years ago, on January 26 1950, India became a sovereign...
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Imagining India
Novelist Nayantara Sahgal reflects on the power of the word in creating India as a nation, 50 years after her uncle Jawaharlal Nehru's celebrated 'tryst with destiny' One cannot talk about India 50...
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Quantifiers of a land hard to measure
MAPPING AN EMPIRE:The Geographical Construction of British India 1765 - 1843. By Matthew H. Edney. University of Chicago Press, 458pp, Pounds .95. ISBN 0 226 18487 0. Throughout the centuries India...
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States of the nation
INDIAN DEVELOPMENT: Selected Regional perspectives. Edited by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. Clarendon Press Oxford, 420pp, Pounds 40.00. ISBN 0 19 829204 X. Africanists rightly deride statements...