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Swadeshi turns 120

News headlines from Bangladesh, and the diverse reactions in India and other countries, are not only disturbing and distressing, but also disquieting as they bode ill for developments in South-east Asian politics.

Nationalist anthropology

In the reckoning of noted anthropologists, Indian anthropology is the product of a colonial tradition. As early as 1971 the…

From Kashgar to Syria

In 1949, a few months after the new People’s Republic of China was proclaimed, Mao moved to ‘liberate’ large areas…