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As fascism strengthen its grip on the country's polity and society, posing a grave danger to Indian democracy and secularism, this incisive analysis of the RSS and the BJP becomes essential reading for all those concerned about the future of India.

Gives details of the universal system of international instru-ments for the protection, promotion and recognition of indigenous people’s rights. An essential reference for all those working on the issue.

With an introduction by Claude Alvares and Teotonio D'Souza. When it was first issued in the late 50's, Pannikar's book raised a storm. It was the first book written by an Indian historian that refused to look at world history through European eyes.

Studies how the burgeoning Dalit movement is leading to an assertion of the identity of this oppressed group.

A fascinating analysis of the role of the Indian people in the freedom struggle, from a range of noted writers including Irfan Habib, K.N. Pannikar and Prabhat Patnaik.

Neither a handbook nor a cookbook on rural participation but a mid-way documentation of an on-going process of direct participation based on the methods of participatory rural appraisal.

A succint analysis of various constitutional issues relating to the office of ‘Prime Minister of India’.

By exploding five nuclear devices in 1998, the BJP-led government hijacked India's independent, peace-oriented nuclear policy and twisted it out of shape. An incisive analysis by a leading political commentator.

A new and critical analysis of the despicable objectives of German investments in India in the wake of liberalisation.

A compilation of a series of chat sessions translated from the Bengali into English.These sessions although essentially unstructures are never really held at random. The editors have arranged the con tents on the basis of themes the have come up again and again and are thus deemed to be aspects of importance to people.

This is a report of is the result of 5 years of study conducted by the research wing of Kerala Sashtra Sahitya Parishad, an NGO, in 5 panchayats of Kerala State, South India to evolve a set of models which would ensure that people actually participated in Panchayati Raj. Issues such as capability building, watershed management, health, education, women-centered activities, were some of the topics covered during the interactive sessions with the people of the villages.

Progler argues that “terrorists” – like other nefarious characters of the past such as bandits, pirates and witches – have become necessary to maintain the Western self image and to provide the “evil other” against which to reconstruct its supposed good self. The demonization and racist caricaturizing of Muslims has thus become vital to the West and this binary relationship has made today’s “terrorists” necessary for Western self-identification.

Roby Rajan traces the steady degeneration of economics from being a branch of moral philosophy to the thoroughly amoral pseudo-science it has become today. He argues that nothing less than an ousting of the current regime of economic knowledge and an overcoming of the market-state-civil society triad can restore to economics its earlier purity.

Leftword Publications brings out the 43rd volume of The Socialist Register, which is a collection of articles that examine whether and how socialism can respond to the environment crisis while maintaining the socialist goal of international equality. What are the implications of environmental destruction for any socialist society? What are the environmental effects of China’s economic growth? How is globalized capitalist agriculture destroying the ecosphere? Twenty writers, all from the West, attempt to come to terms with nature.

A collection of 35 essays from some of the prominent environmental journalists in India. Half the essays take a critical look at environmental journalism and reporting itself, commenting also on photo journalism and problems faced by journalists in communicating environment stories to the reader. The rest of the essays are on topics ranging from wildlife journalism to science, health, disasters, environmental movements etc.

Everything you want to know about Basel 2 – the internationally agreed framework for assessing the capital adequacy of banks.

A case for the urgent need to introduce reforms in the existing multilateral trade and finance global arrangements, so as to enhance policy making capacity of developing countries and to strike a better balance among countries.

This booklet makes a case for reforming the international trade regime to allow developing countries to pursue dynamic, flexible and selective trade policies tailored to their own development needs.

This report reviews recent trends in patenting of influenza viruses and treatments, and provides details on a number of specific patent applications by corporations and government laboratories.

An analysis of Gandhi’s swadeshi revolution and power of Mahatma Gandhi’s style of dressing in home spun cloth to stage India’s revolution against the British empire.

Several multilateral agreements under the jurisdiction of the WTO which govern the conduct of international trade are not being enforced primarily due to implementation problems. The paper discusses why and how these hurdles can be overcome at the earliest.

This booklet is a compilation of articles on the anti-counterfeit drive and medicine seizures by European customs authorities, first published in the South-North Development Monitor (SUNS), a daily bulletin on development issues published by Third World Network.