अल्पसंख्यांक

Summary: A Collection of Informed Arguments

Edited by Teesta Setalvad
publisher: The Book People
ISBN: 9789383756124

Author: Teesta Setalvad
Summary: Searching for survivors among the blood-soaked bodies strewn around the canal and between the ravines near Makanpur village, on the Delhi–Ghaziabad border, on the night of 22 May 1987, with just a dim torchlight—the memories are still fresh in Vibhuti Narain Rai’s mind. On that fateful night, when Rai first heard about the killing, he could not believe the news was true until he, along with the district magistrate and a few other officials, went to Hindon canal. He quickly realized that all of them had become witnesses to secular India’s most shameful and horrendous incident—personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) had rounded up dozens of Muslims from riot-torn Meerut and had killed them in cold blood in Rai’s area of jurisdiction. Offering a blow-by-blow account of the massacre and its aftermath, Hashimpura is a screaming narrative of the barbaric use of state force and the spineless politics in post-Independent India.
Summary: 'Gujarat Files -Anatomy of a Cover up' .

A book which has seen the worst kind of censorship by publications and is set to see the light of the day next week . It has been self published by the author and will be available for sale May 26 onwards.

Author: Rana Ayub
Summary:
  • Research on the collective violence against Armenians almost always concentrates on events between 1915-1917, this book instead considers the violence against Armenians preceding and succeeding these years.
Author: Fatma Muge Gocek
Summary: 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.

But what does it mean for fascism to have a “mass base”? And how does it construct one? The concluding chapter explores the notion of “passive complicity”, using ideas developed by Jean-Paul Sartre in his major work Critique of Dialectical Reason, and then turns to a characterisation of the Extreme Right in India by looking at the strategies at work in the subversion of Indian democracy.
Author: Edited by Jairus Banaji
Summary: By RB Sreekumar, IPS (Retd) Gujarat Cadre
ISBN: 9788170495109
English
Page: 256
HB
Rs.595.00
Author: RB Sreekumar
Summary: Destruction of the Babri Masjid: A National Dishonour is a sequel to The Babri Masjid Question 1528 2003: A Matter of National Honour , published in 2003 in two volumes a compilation by A.G.
Author: A. G. Noorani
Summary: 216 pp / PB
Rs 250
First edition, 2015
ISBN-10: 81-7221-067-1
ISBN-13: 978-81-7221-067-0
www.pharosmedia.com
Author: By Shamsul-Islam