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Scripting the Change: Selected Writings of Anuradha Ghandy
ISBN: 978-93-81144-10-7 (Hb) Price: INR700.00
ISBN: 978-93-81144-11-4 (Pb) Price: INR350.00
Author(s): Anand Teltumbde and Shoma Sen (eds.)
Year: 2012[2011]
Pages: xxiv+480
About the Book
In this great democracy of ours, Anuradha Gandhy was what is known as a ‘Maoist terrorist,’ liable to be arrested, or, more likely, shot in a fake ‘encounter’ like hundreds of her colleagues have been … Reading through [her writings]… you catch glimpses of a mind of someone who could have been a serious scholar or academic who was overtaken by her conscience and found it impossible to sit back and merely theorize about the terrible injustice she saw around her. These writings reveal a person who is doing all she can to link theory and practice, action and thought.
Anuradha Ghandy’s life and work stands as an example for a generation of Indian revolutionaries. But more than that she has directly contributed to the development of the Indian revolutionary movement in significant ways. Take the caste issue. Anuradha was one of the new generations of revolutionaries that in practical political activity gained and formulated an insight that helped the movement to move forward from the former narrow economism in the perception of caste of the old CPI to a new and broader understanding of the class role of the superstructure. ...her writing contains much more. It is necessary reading for anyone who wants to understand the present situation in India.
Contents
Preface
Foreword: “….But Anuradha was different” Arundhati Roy
Remembering Anuradha Ghandy: Friend, Comrade, Moving Spirit
Section 1: Caste
Introduction
Caste Question in India
The Caste Question Returns
Movements against Caste in Maharashtra
When Maharashtra Burned for Four Days
Dalit Fury Scorches Maharashtra: Gruesome Massacre of Dalits
Mahars as Landholders
Section 2: Women
Introduction
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement
The Revolutionary Women’s Movement in India
8 March and the Women’s Movement in India
International Women’s Day: Past and Present
Fascism, Fundamentalism and Patriarchy
Changes in Rape Law: How far will they Help?
Cultural Expression of the Adivasi Women in the Revolutionary Movement
In Conversation with Comrade Janaki
Working Class Women: Making the Invisible Visible
Women Bidi Workers and the Co-operative Movement: A Study of the Struggle in the Bhandara District Bidi Workers’ Co-operative
Section 3: Miscellaneous
Introduction
A Pyrrhic Victory: Government Take-Over of Empress Mills
Empress Mills: What Misstatements?
Inchampalli-Bhopalapatnam Revisited
Season: Tendupatta; Pimp: The State
Can Revolution be prevented by Blocking the Roads to Kamalapur?
Gagging People’s Culture
People’s Struggles in Bastar
The Bitter Lessons of Khaparkheda
Working Class Anger Erupts
Workers’ Upsurge against Changes in Labour Laws
Prices Make the Poor Poorer
Rape and Murder — ‘Law And Order’ of the Day
A Time to Remember
Brahmin Sub-Inspector Tramples Dalit Flag
Small Magazines: A Significant Expression of the People’s Culture
Deaths in Police Custody in Nagpur
Cotton Flower … the Best Flower! … ?
Practical Socialism: Not Socialism but Pure Fascism
Index
____________________________________________________________________
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From Varna to Jati: Political Economy of Caste in Indian Social Formation — Commemorating Scholar and Revolutionary Martyr Yalavarthi Naveen Babu
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ISBN: 978-81-89654-59-4 (Pb)
Author(s): Yalavarthi Naveen Babu (edited by B. Ramesh Babu)
Year: 2012[2008]
Pages: xvi+144pp.________________________________________
About the Book
This commemorative volume is based on Yalavarthi Naveen Babu’s M.Phil dissertation in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Using the more dynamic conception of jati as opposed to a static Western understanding of ‘caste,’ Naveen Babu traces its history in the social, cultural and economic aspects of the formation of ‘Varna into jati’ from the Rg-Vedic period to the end of 20th century. He demonstrates how these changes were grounded into the changing modes of production and its accompanying social formation. Naveen Babu’s work is a modest but significant interdisciplinary contribution to Indian Marxist historiography, sociology and political economy. It is relevant, not only for a scientific understanding of caste, but also for contemporary social movements against the caste and class divided Indian society. It is hoped that readers of this book will be further motivated to dig deeper into the complexity of the present social formation that embodies the subcontinent.
Other contributors include sociologist Prof. Yogendra Singh, political scientist Prof. Manorajan Mohanty, revolutionary poet Dr. Vara Vara Rao and Naveen’s friends and contemporaries, including the Editor, B. Ramesh Babu, a biotechnologist, entrepreneur and a faculty at Wayne State University, USA.
Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, fondly known to his friends as Naveen, was born in a middle caste, middle peasant family on 29 May 1964 in Guddikayalanka village, Repalle Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. After schooling, Naveen moved to the state capital, Hyderabad, where he completed his intermediate and B.Sc. from Babu Jagjivan Ram College, and later moved to Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, where he completed his MA in Sociology. His M.Phil dissertation, for which he was awarded his degree in 1989, is published as such in the initial part of this book. He enrolled for Ph.D. under Prof. Yogendra Singh, but discontinued later as he could not devote enough time for his thesis work due to his increasing commitment for political activism. Since early 1990s, he became a full-time activist of CPI-ML (Peoples’ War), now known as CPI (Maoist), and grew up fast in its ranks to the Central Committee level through his scholarly understanding of issues, pleasant personality and revolutionary fervour. He was martyred on 18th February 2000 in Darakonda, a village near Visakhapatnam, AP.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface M. Nadarajah
I. Academic Contribution of Naveen Babu
Reinterpreting Caste and Social Change: A Review Ramesh Babu and M. Nadarajah
Conceptual and Methodological Issues Yogendra Singh
From Varna to Jati: Transformation from Pastoral to Agrarian Social Formation Yalavarthi Naveen Babu
II. Commemoration of Naveen Babu
A Biography of Y. Naveen Babu B. Ramesh Babu
Remembering Naveen Babu Manoranjan Mohanty
A Life Dedicated to the People’s Cause Vara Vara Rao
Naveen, Friendship’s Gift to Me M. Nadarajah
My Friend, Naveen Babu S. Samuel Asir Raj
Pleasant Radical: Yalavarthi Naveen Babu Bhupendra Yadav
Scripting the Change: Selected Writings of Anuradha Ghandy
ISBN: 978-93-81144-10-7 (Hb) Price: INR700.00
ISBN: 978-93-81144-11-4 (Pb) Price: INR350.00
Author(s): Anand Teltumbde and Shoma Sen (eds.)
Year: 2012[2011]
Pages: xxiv+480
About the Book
In this great democracy of ours, Anuradha Gandhy was what is known as a ‘Maoist terrorist,’ liable to be arrested, or, more likely, shot in a fake ‘encounter’ like hundreds of her colleagues have been … Reading through [her writings]… you catch glimpses of a mind of someone who could have been a serious scholar or academic who was overtaken by her conscience and found it impossible to sit back and merely theorize about the terrible injustice she saw around her. These writings reveal a person who is doing all she can to link theory and practice, action and thought.
— Arundhati Roy, New Delhi
Anuradha Ghandy’s life and work stands as an example for a generation of Indian revolutionaries. But more than that she has directly contributed to the development of the Indian revolutionary movement in significant ways. Take the caste issue. Anuradha was one of the new generations of revolutionaries that in practical political activity gained and formulated an insight that helped the movement to move forward from the former narrow economism in the perception of caste of the old CPI to a new and broader understanding of the class role of the superstructure. ...her writing contains much more. It is necessary reading for anyone who wants to understand the present situation in India.
— Jan Myrdal, Sweden
Contents
Preface
Foreword: “….But Anuradha was different” Arundhati Roy
Remembering Anuradha Ghandy: Friend, Comrade, Moving Spirit
Section 1: Caste
Introduction
Caste Question in India
The Caste Question Returns
Movements against Caste in Maharashtra
When Maharashtra Burned for Four Days
Dalit Fury Scorches Maharashtra: Gruesome Massacre of Dalits
Mahars as Landholders
Section 2: Women
Introduction
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement
The Revolutionary Women’s Movement in India
8 March and the Women’s Movement in India
International Women’s Day: Past and Present
Fascism, Fundamentalism and Patriarchy
Changes in Rape Law: How far will they Help?
Cultural Expression of the Adivasi Women in the Revolutionary Movement
In Conversation with Comrade Janaki
Working Class Women: Making the Invisible Visible
Women Bidi Workers and the Co-operative Movement: A Study of the Struggle in the Bhandara District Bidi Workers’ Co-operative
Section 3: Miscellaneous
Introduction
A Pyrrhic Victory: Government Take-Over of Empress Mills
Empress Mills: What Misstatements?
Inchampalli-Bhopalapatnam Revisited
Season: Tendupatta; Pimp: The State
Can Revolution be prevented by Blocking the Roads to Kamalapur?
Gagging People’s Culture
People’s Struggles in Bastar
The Bitter Lessons of Khaparkheda
Working Class Anger Erupts
Workers’ Upsurge against Changes in Labour Laws
Prices Make the Poor Poorer
Rape and Murder — ‘Law And Order’ of the Day
A Time to Remember
Brahmin Sub-Inspector Tramples Dalit Flag
Small Magazines: A Significant Expression of the People’s Culture
Deaths in Police Custody in Nagpur
Cotton Flower … the Best Flower! … ?
Practical Socialism: Not Socialism but Pure Fascism
Index
____________________________________________________________________
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From Varna to Jati: Political Economy of Caste in Indian Social Formation — Commemorating Scholar and Revolutionary Martyr Yalavarthi Naveen Babu
Price: INR175.00
ISBN: 978-81-89654-59-4 (Pb)
Author(s): Yalavarthi Naveen Babu (edited by B. Ramesh Babu)
Year: 2012[2008]
Pages: xvi+144pp.________________________________________
About the Book
This commemorative volume is based on Yalavarthi Naveen Babu’s M.Phil dissertation in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Using the more dynamic conception of jati as opposed to a static Western understanding of ‘caste,’ Naveen Babu traces its history in the social, cultural and economic aspects of the formation of ‘Varna into jati’ from the Rg-Vedic period to the end of 20th century. He demonstrates how these changes were grounded into the changing modes of production and its accompanying social formation. Naveen Babu’s work is a modest but significant interdisciplinary contribution to Indian Marxist historiography, sociology and political economy. It is relevant, not only for a scientific understanding of caste, but also for contemporary social movements against the caste and class divided Indian society. It is hoped that readers of this book will be further motivated to dig deeper into the complexity of the present social formation that embodies the subcontinent.
Other contributors include sociologist Prof. Yogendra Singh, political scientist Prof. Manorajan Mohanty, revolutionary poet Dr. Vara Vara Rao and Naveen’s friends and contemporaries, including the Editor, B. Ramesh Babu, a biotechnologist, entrepreneur and a faculty at Wayne State University, USA.
Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, fondly known to his friends as Naveen, was born in a middle caste, middle peasant family on 29 May 1964 in Guddikayalanka village, Repalle Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. After schooling, Naveen moved to the state capital, Hyderabad, where he completed his intermediate and B.Sc. from Babu Jagjivan Ram College, and later moved to Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, where he completed his MA in Sociology. His M.Phil dissertation, for which he was awarded his degree in 1989, is published as such in the initial part of this book. He enrolled for Ph.D. under Prof. Yogendra Singh, but discontinued later as he could not devote enough time for his thesis work due to his increasing commitment for political activism. Since early 1990s, he became a full-time activist of CPI-ML (Peoples’ War), now known as CPI (Maoist), and grew up fast in its ranks to the Central Committee level through his scholarly understanding of issues, pleasant personality and revolutionary fervour. He was martyred on 18th February 2000 in Darakonda, a village near Visakhapatnam, AP.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface M. Nadarajah
I. Academic Contribution of Naveen Babu
Reinterpreting Caste and Social Change: A Review Ramesh Babu and M. Nadarajah
Conceptual and Methodological Issues Yogendra Singh
From Varna to Jati: Transformation from Pastoral to Agrarian Social Formation Yalavarthi Naveen Babu
II. Commemoration of Naveen Babu
A Biography of Y. Naveen Babu B. Ramesh Babu
Remembering Naveen Babu Manoranjan Mohanty
A Life Dedicated to the People’s Cause Vara Vara Rao
Naveen, Friendship’s Gift to Me M. Nadarajah
My Friend, Naveen Babu S. Samuel Asir Raj
Pleasant Radical: Yalavarthi Naveen Babu Bhupendra Yadav
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