- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- Adivasi Movements in India: An Interview with Poet Waharu Sonavane
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Waharu is a Bhil Adivasi, long-time poet and activist. Since the 1970s, he has been organizing for Adivasi self-sufficiency among his community near his hometown in western India.
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- The Anglican Church of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Another journalist burnt to death in India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) strongly condemn the brutal murder of a journalist in Madhya Pradesh on June 19. The killing is the second burning death of a journalist in India
- Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
A story of the caste system in India told through the autobiography of an untouchable woman.
- Asking The Earth
The Spread of Unsustainable Development
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Periera and Seabrock, using examples from India, argue that Western colonialism destroyed sustainable development in the Third World.
- The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
- Betrayal of Trust
The Collapse of Global Public Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
- Blood and Belonging
Journey into the New Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
- Born into Brothels
Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2004
The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
- Britain took more out of India than it put in -- Could China do the same to Britain?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Large parts of India's economy were destroyed by British technology in the 1800s, and by deals that favoured British shareholders. Today, it's China that holds that kind of power.
- Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
To date, cotton is the only officially sanctioned GM crop in India. Those pushing for GM food crops (including the government) are forwarding the narrative that GM pest resistant Bt cotton has been a tremendous success which should now be emulated with the introduction of GM mustard. Ever since its commercialisation in 2002, however, the issue of Bt cotton in India has been a hotly contested issue. Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. But critics argue that Bt cotton has negatively impacted livelihoods and fuelled agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1956
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- The Charter of Demands of the Indian National Fishworkers' Forum
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
- Chasing a Mirage
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
- China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
More than 400 hydroelectric schemes are planned in the mountain region, which could be a disaster for the environment.
- Chipko movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Climate Change in Asia and Brazil
The Role of Technology Transfer
Resource Type: Book
This book focuses on the transfer of energy-efficient technologies against the backdrop of climate change by using 10 country case studies.
- Climate Migrants Lead Mass Migration to India's Cities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
South Asia will be severely impacted by climate change and cause challenges that the government must resolve.
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Library: Central and South Asia Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on central and southern Asia.
- The Construction of Communalism in India
Against The Current vol. 106
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
Sara Abraham interviews Dipak Malik, Director of the Gandhian Institute of Varanasi, about the anti-communal-violence work in which he has been involved from his base in Varanasi, in the Hindu heartland of the country.
- Corporate India Versus Indigenous People
Violent in the Name of Development
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The state has more or less abandoned rural people (70% of the population) and turned the countryside over to corporate India. Mineral extraction, dam building, infrastructure projects, water appropriation and industrial farming make up their burgeoning business portfolios.
- The Cost of Living
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Roy takes on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that have displaced millions, and the development of India's nuclear weapons. Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath.
- Countercurrents
Resource Type: Website
An alternative news site based in India. "We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!"
- A creeping quiet in Indian journalism?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
How a combination of government pressure, harassment by political activists, commercial actors including both advertisers and some media owners, is exercising a chilling effect on Indian journalism.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Daughters of India Violated and Abused
A Woman's Lot
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
- Dear Sisters, They Are Killing Our Trees
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
People in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, are fighting to keep their forests in the face of a threatened dam project which would submerge their ancestral lands.
- Development Theory in Transition
The Dependency Debate and Beyond: Third World Responses
Resource Type: Book
This book is an outline of development theory since 1945, and emphasizes the importance of Dependency Theory as a catalyst in forming more relevant and less ethnocentric approaches. It is also the story of the rise to intellectual hegemony of a whole generation of Latin American, Caribbean, African and Indian political economists. This book is a fascinating history of development theory from a Third World perspective.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Editor of Tamil weekly held for past 11 days on criminal defamation charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist A.S. Mani#s detention in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu on a criminal defamation charge.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Encyclopeida of Asian History
Resource Type: Book
- Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Stories from India's Poorest Districts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
P. Sainath devoted 2½ years to visiting and recording the realities - delving into the fundamentals, the why of the realities - in India's 10 poorest districts.
- Fearless and outspoken Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Karnataka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the brutal killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru, India on September 5.
- 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
Enough
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
- Filthy, deadly mayhem in India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Along with the choking fumes and piles of putrid waste, sound systems and a constant bombardment of honking horns from cars, lorries and screaming buses assault residents and the unprepared in towns and cities throughout India.
- From the Ruins of Empire
The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Pankaj Mishra's fascinating, highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West.
- From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The "liberalization" and 'corporatization' of agriculture under the World Trade Organisation would put at risk the livelihoods of more than 2/3 of India's 1 billion people.
- Gandhi, Mohandas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The pre-eminent political and spritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. (1869-1948).
- Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
- GM cotton really is helping to drive Indian farmers to suicide
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A new study finds that Indian farmers in rain-fed areas are being driven to suicide from the increased cost of growing Bt GMO cotton varieties that confer no benefits to them. The extra expenses arise from buying new seeds each year, along with increased chemical inputs, while suffering inadequate access to agronomic information.
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- Green on Red
Evolving Ecological Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Essays exploring alternative economic and political strategies within an ecological context.
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- 'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Along with the temperatures, the Brokpa say, the entire weather pattern has become increasingly unpredictable in the past two decades in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which border the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- History of sex in India
Resource Type: Article
- How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
- How the World Depression Hits Orissa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The recession in the West is having a profound impact on the deep rural interior of Orissa.
- How To Make India Safer For Women
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
What’s to be done to make India, a country where women are veneered in the temple and beaten at home, safer for women?
- I have never felt disadvantaged being a woman reporter
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Ritu Sarin is the investigations editor of the Indian Express group, and is the winner of several awards including the Ramnath Goenka Award and the Prem Bhatia award for excellence in journalism. ICIJ recently spoke to her about some of her most prominent investigations and her career as an investigative editor.
- IFJ Backs Indian Calls for "Peace and Tolerance" in Media Reports of Religious Dispute
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for journalists to play their part in keeping the peace in India where there are fears of community violence in a long-running religious dispute.
- Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather than keeping quiet about Britain's imperial past, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign has actually flushed establishment apologists out into the open. They have been forced to defend the legacy of a man who, if he had not been British and had not given a substantial bribe to Oxford University, would today be generally acknowledged by everyone as a corrupt fraudster, thief, liar and killer for profit, as someone marked out only by the enormity of his crimes. The hypocrisy that the debate over Rhodes Must Fall has occasioned has been very instructive in itself, but what is intended here is an examination not just of the part played by hypocrisy in the defence of British imperialism, but of the other strategies employed: suppression and amnesia.
- Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The true intent of the partition was to detach Pakistan from India, create a militarily strategic foothold aimed at the Soviet Union and maintain control over the oil fields of the Middle East.
- Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In 2009, the Government of India announced a new nation-wide initiative viz. "Integrated Action Plan" (IAP) for broad coordinated operations to deal with the 'Naxalite' problem. This plan included increased funding for special police for better containment and reduction of Naxalite influence. Kobad Ghandy’s arrest in September 2009 was a direct fall out of this IAP.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case - Part II - The Punjab Trial
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In a follow-up to an article detailing how Delhi's legal system was able to detain Kobad Ghandy in Tihar Jail for engaging in supposedly communist activities, this article discusses a separate attempt to prosecute Ghandy for his social activism.
- In the footsteps of Gandhi: an interview with Vandana Shiva
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Vandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and anti-globalisation. She is also among the most prominent of Mahatma Ghandi's intellectual heirs. In this interview, she discusses how this led her to be an outspoken voice on such crucial environmental issues as seed legacy, biopiracy and economic injustice.
- India - buried under stinking rubbish heaps
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Under the 'Incredible India' brand lurk millions of fast-growing piles of decomposing waste. As they await removal, polluting waters and stinking under the tropical sun, India is rapidy becoming the world's biggest rubbish dump.
- India: End Funding Restraints on Organizations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Indian government should vigorously investigate allegations that officials are using the law on foreign contributions to repress groups critical of the government. The government should amend the 2010 Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act
- India: Growing Inequality and Destructive Development
Misery for the Many, Benefits for the Few
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Under the careful guidance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund the Indian government has for the last twenty years or so, embraced market liberalization and the global market; garlanded corporations with all manner of subsidies and damned the poor to greater poverty, destitution, suffering and, suicide in the case of farmers.
- India in the World: In conversation with author Pankaj Mishra
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Essayist, journalist and novelist Pankaj Mishra will be in Ottawa on November 2 as part of The India Lectures organized by Canadaâ##s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). This final instalment of The India Lectures will be a special
- India - Now Nuclear and Environmental Dissent is a Crime
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth.
- India, Where Corporate Socialism is a Growth Industry
$608 Billion in Write-Offs
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
It was business as usual in 2013-14. Business with a capital B. This year’s budget document says we gave away another $88.6 billion to the corporate needy and the under-nourished rich in that year.
- India: Why are Suzuki automobile workers in jail?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Why are automobile workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India's industrial scene.
- India: Two journalists killed in 24 hours
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Sandeep Sharma and Naveen Nishchal were both killed in separate vehicle incidents in India on Monday, March 26. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) condemn the killings
- Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.
- Indian independence movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Encompasses a wide spectrum of political organizations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending British colonial authority in South Asia.
- Indian Rebellion of 1857
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May, 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.
- India's Daughter
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2015
The story of the brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh, which sparked outrage and protests in India, a country beset by extreme poverty and gender inequality.
- India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
- India's killer heatwave - a deadly warning of the world we face, without climate action
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late.
- India's Rice Warrior Battles to Build Living Seed Bank as Climate Chaos Looms
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with 'mindless Indian elite' to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties
- Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
There are several indications that India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike.
- Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A review of Shashi Tharoor's book "Inglorious Empire", which is a scorching indictment of British rule in India and British imperialism in general.
- Jai Bhim Comrade
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
India’s Dalit (oppressed) castes were abhorred as “untouchables”. The film, shot over 14 years follows the music of protest of Maharashtra's Dalits. In an age of increasing bigotry and superstition, it is both a record of recent history as well as eloquent testimony to a tradition that has survived amongst the subaltern for thousands of years.
- Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- Journalist missing after investigative report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) express serious concern following the disappearance of Indian journalist Chayan Sarkar in West Bengal.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
- Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
- Land Conflict and Injustice
Development in 'New India'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On agrarian crisis and the commercialization of the countryside in India.
- Liberation of Dalits: Key to Indian Workers Revolution
Review of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Ants Among Elephants is both a family memoir and a political history.
- "Lies, Lies and More Lies" - GMOs, Poisoned Agriculture and Toxic Rants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
As as been well documented, it is the pro-GMO lobby/industry that distorts and censors science, captures regulatory bodies, attacks scientists whose findings are unpalatable to the industry and bypasses proper scientific and regulatory procedures altogether.
- Manifesto of Indian Farmers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India, the manifesto outlines Indian farmers convictions, principals, concerns, rights and calls on the parliament of India to hold a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills and address additional demands.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12
Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854
Resource Type: Book
Articles mainly on British colonialism.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1858
Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 24: Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
More than half a millennium separated the fall of India’s Mauryan Empire in the late 3rd century BCE (before the common era) from the rise of the Gupta Empire in the early 4th century CE (common era). Economic and social change during the interval altered the foundations of imperialism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.
- The mass graves of Kashmir
India's dirty war unmasked
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
- Modi in Canada
What Canadians Should Know About Harper's New Guest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
When Stephen Harper hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Canada this week, they will be greeted with both adoring fans and with protests. Modi, an extremist Hindu nationalist, has a strong support base within a section of the Indian community. But his past comes back to haunt him. A human rights organization called Sikhs for Justice has appealed to the Canadian government to prosecute Modi for the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
- The Need for a museum on British colonisation of India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
To support the establishment of a museum in India displaying the negative side to British colonialism, Tharoor brings to light various atrocities committed by Britian to India during the colonial period that have been given very little attention by both countries in the present day.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- No visa for German journalist who wants to base himself in New Delhi
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders urges the Indian government to issue a press visa to Hasnain Kazim, a German journalist of Indian origin, so that he can base himself in India as the German weekly Der Spiegelâ##s correspondent.
- Non-cooperation movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A series of nationwide people's movements of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.
- Nonviolence
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken
The Case of India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
Climate Change and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
Resource Type: Book
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- People's Archive of Rural India
Resource Type: Organization
Recording the everyday lives of everyday people.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Police seals TV channel in Siliguri, India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the shutting down of a television channel based in Siliguri, West Bengal, India by the police on July 22. The IFJ demands the immediate restoration of the channel.
- Police State India
Robert Clive and the Forbidden
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Describing security-mania in India.
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- Press for Conversion #47
March 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2002
This issue begins with a series of articles examining the historical context of the conflict between India and Pakistan.
- Press Freedom Under Fire in South Asia, 2008-09
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The seventh annual report on press freedom in South Asia documents alarming trends in working conditions for journalists.
- Rahul Pandita's New India: A Hindutva India On the Ashes Of Democratic Secular India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Shamsul Islam responds to the rise of the Hindutva in India and challenges their anti-Muslim propaganda.
- The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslims Represent India's Kristallnacht?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
On 23 February 2020 in Delhi, Hindu nationalist mobs roamed the streets burning and looting mosques together with Muslim homes, shops and businesses. They killed or burned alive Muslims who could not escape and the victims were largely unprotected by the police.
- Religious violence in India
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Communal violence in India includes acts of violence by followers of one religious group against followers and institutions of another religious group, often in the form of rioting. Religious violence in India, especially in recent times, has generally involved Hindus and Muslims, although incidents of violence have also involved atheists, Christians and Sikhs. There is also history of Muslim – Parsee riots.
- Reporters Without Borders condemns the hunt for French journalists’ confidential sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by Indian authorities' brutal search, aimed at members of the Karen community in the Andaman Islands, for those who helped two French documentarians gain access to the prohibited lands of the Jarawa tribe.
- Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
- Review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A book review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Vivek Chibber challenges the post-Marxist framework of the Subaltern Studies group.
- The Rise of British Imperialism: Capitalism and Slavery (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A presentation on the developments that made Britain the first modern imperialist power.
- Roy, M.N. - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of M.N. Roy (1887-1954).
- Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike and mutiny by Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay (Mumbai) harbour in 1946.
- Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
The everyday lives of everyday people
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
- Saffron terror
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Saffron terror is a neologism used to describe acts of violence motivated by Hindu nationalism. The acts are allegedly perpetrated by members, or alleged members, of Hindu nationalist organizations close to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Abhinav Bharat.
- Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
- P. Sainath
Resource Type: Website
The website of P. Sainath, rural reporter in India.
- Satyagraha
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A campaign of nonviolent protest against the British in colonial India in 1930.
- Save the Tiger, Keep the People
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
On the fate of India’s forest-dwelling peoples: and how many will be aware that so many of them are being illegally evicted as part of the drive to conserve flora and fauna? Despite having co-existed with tigers and other animals for centuries, many of India's tribal peoples are currently being persecuted in the name of conservation.
- Shock and Outrage at Murder of Senior Journalist in Mumbai
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked and outraged at the daylight murder of Jyotirmoy Dey, senior journalist and special investigations editor with the afternoon daily Midday, in the western Indian city of Mumbai.
- Small is Beautiful
A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
- The Socialist Register 1966
Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1966
- The Socialist Register 1967
Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1967
- The Socialist Register 1975
Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1975
- Socialist Register 2003
Volume 39: Fighting Identities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2003
- Solar heat - transforming rural enterprises around the tropics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Solar energy is not just about electricity. It's also about heat - and three innovative projects highlighted by the Ashden Awards are showing how solar heat can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of food processing and farming, while helping agricultural businesses increase profits.
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Sundarbans: 'Not a blade of grass grew...'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, for long living on the edge, are now facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.
- Tamil Nadu's seaweed harvesters in rough seas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
An unusual activity of the fisherwomen of Bharathinagar in Tamil Nadu keeps them more in the water than on boats. But climate change and overexploitation of marine resources are eroding their livelihoods.
- 13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured.
- Tokyo National Museum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The tragedy of being a girl in India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
India is the "most dangerous country in the world in which to be a girl". This is stated in a controversial United Nations finding based on a range of distressing social statistics rooted in gender and caste prejudice, much of which can be traced back to 18th century colonialism and the destructive 'divide and rule' methodology employed by the British.
- TV journalists attacked by Indian railway police
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists – India (NUJI) in strongly criticizing the attack on journalists from a local television channel by local police in Bhubaneswar, Odisha of India
- Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Over the two decades since Monsanto entered India, it has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide.
- UK press targets middle India
Associated's Mail Today is one of many British titles targeting the growing market
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
International publishing groups have recently rushed to publish and market Indian versions of their publications. They are taking advantage of the booming market the growing middle class demographic has created and the recent elimination of restrictions on foreign ownership of national media.
- Uproar in India: And You Thought It Was Only About Farmers?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Surely the 'mainstream' media (a strange term for platforms whose content excludes over 70 per cent of the population) cannot be unaware of these implications of the new farm laws for Indian democracy. But the pursuit of profit drives them far more than any notion of public interest or democratic principles. Shed any delusions about the conflicts of interests (in plural) involved. These media are also corporations. The Big Boss of the largest Indian corporation is also the richest and biggest media owner in the country.
- Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers.
- The vanguard of India's assertive patriotism is a 3 million-member student group
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In India rightwing group combs campuses to weed out voices critical of state.
- The Very Future of Third World Agriculture Is at Stake
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Food security is simply a smokescreen to provide a cover-up for the global efforts being made to dismantle the very foundations of Third World agriculture. Putting more income into the hands of Third World farmers is not acceptable, as it makes developing country agriculture economically viable and therefore deals a blow to U.S. agribusiness trade interests.
- Violence, arrests and censorship in all four corners of India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of violence and censorship against the media in various parts of India in the past few weeks.
- Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
- Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
- 'Water man of India' makes rivers flow again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The revival of traditional rainwater harvesting has restored flow to rivers in India's driest state, Rajasthan - thanks to the tireless efforts of Rajendra Singh, recent winner of a Stockholm water prize.
- What Religion is Your Nationalism?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
On November 9, 2019, 27 years after mobs destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court of India, despite stating that the demolition of the mosque was against the rule of law, pronounced the lawbreakers as victors. Those who had indulged in a bloodbath to build a temple where they claim Lord Ram was born have become the owners.
- Why India's first 100% organic state matters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In a mountainous region in eastern India, Sikkim is now a 100% organic state, with no chemical pesticides or fertilizers and no GMOs. This matters because it shows that organic food in an entire region is possible. Now, other people in India and throughout the world are learning from Sikkim's success, and beginning to ask, "Could organic food succeed in other areas, too?"
- Why is India so bad for women?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
- The World Bank Group's Uncounted
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
- World Minorities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
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