Being Indian, page 25
Chapter 3: Wealth
1. A.K. Ramanujan, The Collected Essays of A.K. Ramanujan, general editor, Vinay Dharwadker, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 46.
2. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Hinduism: A Religion to Live By, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1979, p. 244.
3. M.N. Srinivas, The Remembered Village, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988, fourth impression 1997, pp. 320-21.
4. Vatsyayana, The Kamasutra, edited by Mulk Raj Anand, Lance Dane, New Delhi: Published by Sanskrit Prathishthan for Arnold Heineman; Atlantic Highlands, NJ; Humanities Press, 1982, p. 69.
5. Kautilya, The Arthashastra, edited, rearranged, translated and introduced by L.N. Rangarajan, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1992, p. 145.
6. J. Duncan M. Derett, ‘Social and Political Thought and Institutions’, in A Cultural History of India, edited by A.L. Basham, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997, second impression 1998, p. 139.
7. Kautilya, The Arthashastra, (see note 5 above), p. 149.
8. H.J.J. Winter, ‘Science’, in A Cultural History of India, edited by A.L. Basham, (see note 6 above), p. 142.
9. A.L. Basham, The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-continent before the Coming of the Muslims, New Delhi: Fontana Books in association with Rupa & Co., 1971, p. 223.
10. Ibid., pp. 217-18.
11. Aditya Mukherjee, Bipan Chandra, K.N. Panikkar, Mridula Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan, India’s Struggle for Independence, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1989, p. 384.
12. Quoted in Ahsan Jan Qaisar, The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture (AD 1498-1707), New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982, p. 17.
13. Hiralal Dave, ‘No bullocks, get hitched to Santi’, Indian Express, 9 June 2003.
14. Chandan Mitra, ‘We are like this only’, Pioneer, 9 June 2002.
15. For more information on the Marwaris, see Gurcharan Das, India Unbound, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2000, pp. 191-204.
16. V.S. Naipaul, India: A Million Mutinies Now, New Delhi: Rupa & Co. in association with William Heinemann, London, 1990, pp. 343-44.
17. Richard Lannoy, The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and Society, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 395.
18. Ashok Celly, Times of India, 26 May 1996.
19. Outlook, 28 August 1996.
20. Quoted in India Today, 15 February 1996.
21. Krishna Kumar, ‘Between Two Dolls’, Times of India, 3 August 1996.
22. Dan Bilefsky, ‘Indians unseat Antwerp’s Jews as the biggest diamond traders’, Indian Express, 27 May 2003.
23. Chaudhuri, Hinduism, (see note 2 above), p. 202.
24. A.M. Rosenthal, ‘The Future in Retrospect: Mother India Thirty Years After’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 35, no. 4, July 1957, p. 623.
25. Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 81.
26. James Cameron, News Chronicle, 1957.
Chapter 4: Technology
1. Bibhutibhusan Dutta, ‘Vedic Mathematics’, in The Cultural Heritage of India, Vol. IV, edited by Priyaranjan Ray and S.N. Sen, Ramakrishna Mission, Institute of Culture, Kolkata, 2000, p. 31.
2. A.L. Basham, The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-continent before the Coming of the Muslims, New Delhi: Fontana Books in association with Rupa & Co., 1971, p. 498.
3. J. Fryer, quoted in Ahsan Jan Qaisar, The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture AD 1498-1707, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 10.
4. H.J.J. Winter, ‘Science’, in A Cultural History of India, edited by A.L. Basham, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997, second impression 1998, p. 154.
5. P.V. Indiresan, ‘Technology: Surmounting Cultural Hurdles’, in Independent India: The First Fifty Years, edited by Hiranmay Karlekar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 204.
6. Richard Lannoy, The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and Society, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 420.
7. For the full report, access wandahl@dk-online.dk
8. Andrè Bèteille, ‘Secularization of Work’, Telegraph, 6 April 2003.
9. Amarnath Tewary, ‘Song of the Loom’, Outlook, 22 July 2002, p. 66.
10. V.S. Naipaul, An Area of Darkness, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 213.
11. M.K. Gandhi, Constructive Programme: Its meaning and place, Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press, 1944, p.16.
12. Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 446.
13. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, London: Meridian Books, 1956, pp. 413-14.
14. Krishna Kumar, Learning from Conflict (Tracts for the Times), New Delhi: Sangam Books, 1996.
15. Rashmee Z. Ahmed, ‘India becomes call centre superpower’, Times of India, 8 August 2002.
16. Sudhir Kakar, The Indian Psyche: The Inner World; Shamans, Mystics and Doctors; Tales of Love, Sex and Danger, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 38.
17. Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, Vol. III, London: Pelican Books, 1968, pp. 1645-46.
18. Anirudh Deshpande, Pioneer, 24 January 1996.
19. See Gautam Bhatia, Punjabi Baroque and Other Memories of Architecture, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1994.
20. P.V. Indiresan, quoted in Rakesh Kalshian, ‘The Devil’s Laboratory’, Outlook, 23 October 2000, p. 64.
21. Sundar Sarukkai, ‘The Deity in the Engine’, Outlook, 14 July 2003.
22. ‘Vastu, evil spirit and a power plant’, Times News Network, Times of India, 19 June 2002.
23. Sagarika Ghose, ‘All too quiet on the front’, Hindustan Times, 15 August 2002.
24. Dipankar Gupta, Mistaken Modernity: India Between Worlds, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers, India, 2000, p. 11.
25. A.K. Ramanujan, The Collected Essays of A.K. Ramanujan, general editor, Vinay Dharwadker, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 50.
26. Soutik Biswas, ‘Seeds of E-Volution’, Outlook, 9 April 2001.
27. M.S. Swaminathan, ‘Reaching the Unreached’, Times of India, 6 September 2002.
28. Sunil Handa, ‘Entrepreneurship: The Indian Mindset’, in Independent India, edited by Hiranmay Karlekar, (see note 5 above), p. 215.
Chapter 5: Pan-Indianness
1. Neera Chandoke, ‘Holding the Nation Together’, IIC Quarterly, volume title India: A National Culture?, vol. 29, nos. 3-4, Winter 2002-Spring 2003, p. 93.
2. Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 24.
3. Sheila Dhar, ‘Music: From the traditional to the modern’, Independent India: The First Fifty Years, edited by Hiranmay Karlekar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 387.
4. ‘The educated have lost touch with their local almanac’, Jnanpith award-winning Kannada writer U.R. Ananthamurthy in conversation with B.R. Srikanth, Outlook, 20 August 2001, p. 102.
5. Sunil Khilnani, ‘Many Wrinkles in History’, Outlook, 20 August 2001, p. 52.
6. M.V. Kamath, on indiainfo.com, 21 July 2000.
7. Sarbjit Singh, Tribune, 16 February 2001.
8. Leroy S. Rouner, ‘Civil Loyalty and the New India’, in Crisis and Change in Contemporary India, edited by Upendra Baxi and Bhikhu Parekh, New Delhi: Sage Publications in association with The Book Review Literary Trust, New Delhi, 1995, p. 183.
9. Amit Bhattacharya, ‘Vows of Death’, Pioneer, 8 April 2001.
10. Vijay Pushkarna, ‘Courting Death’, Week, 9 September 2001, p. 46
11. Amir Khan, ‘He couldn’t give a gift’, Indian Express, 24 November 2001.
12. Ashok Das, ‘Aids victim stoned to death in Andhra Pradesh’, Hindustan Times, 11 July 2003.
13. Guy Trebay, ‘Pink Elephants’, New York Times, 10 March 2002.
14. Quoted by F. Max Müller, India: What Can it Teach Us?, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2000, p. 51.
15. Ibid., p. 56.
16. Octavio Paz, In Light of India, translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997, p. 60.
17. Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 111.
18. Stephen P. Cohen, India: Emerging Power, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, third impression, 2003, p. 8.
19. J.N. Dixit, India and Pakistan in War and Peace, New Delhi: Books Today, 2002, p. 30.
20. Shekhar Gupta, ‘Our Macho do about nothing’, Indian Express, 29 September 2001.
21. Sudhir Kakar, The Indian Psyche: The Inner World; Shamans, Mystics and Doctors; Tales of Love, Sex and Danger, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 82.
22. Richard Lannoy, The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and Society, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 143.
23. Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, London: Jonathan Cape, 1951, p. 364.
24. A.M. Khusro, ‘India: A Dialectic of Opposites’, in Independent India, edited by Hiranmay Karlekar, (see note 3 above), p. 343.
25. Cohen, India: Emerging Power, (see note 18 above), p. 113.
26. From the Second Sir Dorab Tata Memorial Lecture on ‘The Predicament of Identity’ delivered by Amartya Sen in New Delhi on 26 February 2001.
27. Nandy, The Intimate Enemy, (see note 17 above), p. 111.
28. Dawn, 13 July 2003.
29. Muzamil Jameel, ‘J&K now gets its healing touch’, Indian Express, 19 August 2003.
30. Swati Chaturvedi, ‘RSS membership falling’, Hindustan Times, 21 April 2003.
31. Mukul Kesavan, Secular Common Sense, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2001, p. 19.
Chapter 6: Epilogue
1. ‘Nehru was the worst disaster to ever hit India’, The man who first broke the news of Gandhi’s assassination, James W. Michaels, in conversation with Arun Venugopal, Outlook, 20 August 2001, p. 86.
2. Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991, New Delhi: Penguin Books India in association with Granta, 1991, pp. 26-27.
3. Ibid., p. 32.
4. N.K. Singh, ‘Four-fold Path to Nirvana’, Indian Express, 14 November 2003.
5. Yasheng Huang and Tarun Khanna, ‘Can India overtake China?’, Foreign Policy, Issue 137, July-August 2003, pp. 74-81.
6. Amartya Sen speaking at a seminar on ‘Development as Freedom: An Indian Perspective’, organized by FICCI and the Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, New Delhi, 30 July 2003.
7. A survey by FICCI in 2003 revealed that 62 per cent of the foreign investing companies were making profits, 9 per cent were breaking even, and 78 per cent were planning fresh investments.
8. Dipankar Gupta, Mistaken Modernity: India Between Worlds, New Delhi: HarperCollins India, 2000, p. 103.
9. Food grain production reached 182.7 million tonnes in 2002-03. Buffer stocks at 30 million tonnes are significantly above the target of 24 million tonnes. Agricultural exports now constitute 15 per cent of India’s total exports.
10. Yogesh Vajpeyi, ‘Woman on Top’, Express Magazine, 24 June 2001.
11. Chidanand Rajghatta, ‘Indian Americans help unseat US lawmaker’, Times of India, 21 August 2002.
12. Manu Joseph, ‘How Many Legs in a Square Foot?’, Outlook, 18 August 2003, p. 58.
13. ‘No gate can withstand the crush of the hungry’, Gunter Grass, the 1999 Nobel laureate for literature, in conversation with Subhoranjan Dasgupta, Outlook, 20 August 2001, p. 123.
14. Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands, (see note 2 above), p. 32.
15. ‘Dalit girl hurls slipper at judge’, Hindustan Times, 31 July 2002.
16. Amit Sharma, ‘Dalit priests hit caste ceiling in Maya’s UP’, Indian Express, 10 July 2002, p. 1.
17. Lalita Panicker, ‘Village India: ‘Sinha Kaun? Budget Kya?’’, Times of India, 28 February 2001.
18. Arun Shourie, ‘When sky is the limit’, Indian Express, 16 August 2003.
19. Clay Wescott, ‘In Asia, the Web is Routing Power to the People’, International Herald Tribune, 29 October 2003.
20. Singh, ‘Four-fold Path to Nirvana’, (see note 4 above).
21. Rajesh Kalra, ‘Dragon goes Digital’, Times of India, 5 September 2002.
22. Singh, ‘Four-fold Path to Nirvana’, (see note 4 above).
INDEX
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Aaj Tak 144
Abhimanyu 26
Abul Fazl 64
Adulation/rejection 35
Ahimsa (non-violence) 2, 4, 6, 149
AJGAR (Ahir, Jat, Gujar and Rajput) alliance 47
Ali Bux, Mahajabeen 173
All Assam Students Union (AASU) 159
All India Kurmi Sabha 47
All India Radio (AIR) 138-9, 158
Altruism 34, 80
Ambani, Dhiribhai 87, 88
Ambuja Cemenents 86
American Express card, growth of 82
Anand, Dev 140
Ananthamurthy, U.R. 145
Andaman Islands 136-7
Angadias 74
Animal cruelty 150
Appadharma 27
Aptech 109
Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) 65
Area of Darkness, An 112
Arjuna 25, 26
Artha 6, 60, 61, 62, 101
Arthashastra 24-5, 27, 35-6, 61, 62, 73
Arya Samaj 161
Aryabhata I 98
Aryans 63
Ashoka, Emperor 149, 162
Ashramadharma 27
Ashwathamma 25-6
Asian Games (1982) 139
Astrology 90, 97, 101-2, 129, 147
Astronomers 98-9
Athar, Ibrahim 153
Audio cassette industry 143
Auqat 21, 22
Aurangzeb 133
Automobile industry 183
Awara 140
Ayyappa temple, Kerala 164
Azhar, Maulana Masood 153, 154
Babri Masjid case 167
Badal, Prakash Singh 32
Bahujan Samaj Party 51
Bajrang Dal 166
Bardhan, Pranab 53
Basham, A.L. 63, 99
BBC News Online 190
Beauty parlours 133, 147
Behaviour, and body language 20-21
Bell Labs 124
Béteille, André 103
Betting 75
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 49, 166, 168, 169, 171
Bharti Enterprises 85
Bhaskara 98
Bhat, Sajjad Ahmad 171
Bhatia, Sabeer 96, 108, 123
Bhatt, Ela 76
Bhima 25, 26
Bhonsle, Asha 142
Bhrigu Samhita 101-2
Birla, Kumar Mangalam 86
Black money 72
Blackwill, Robert D. 188
Blair, Tony 39
Bolo ta ra ra ra 141-2
Bombay Stock Exchange 88
Bose, Subhash Chandra 6
Boxwallahs 78-9
Brahma temple, Pushkar 64
Brahmacharya 60
Brahmagupta 98
Brahmins 10, 61, 62, 72, 102, 103, 106, 173
aspiration to earn more 64
Brainbench 131-2
Brave Girl 190
Brezhnev, Leonid 174
Bribes/grafts paid by 71, 74
small-scale sector 70
street vendors 71
British Medical Association 184
Buddha 64, 99
Buddhism 64-5, 162
Bush, George W. 131, 184
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) 116
Cameron, James 95
Caste alliances 47-8, 138
Caste system 5, 8, 19, 20, 21, 47, 51, 103,
129 Cavin Kare 85
Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California 124
Chamundeswari temple, Mysore 126
Chandogya Upanishad 31
Chandoke, Neera 137
Chandra, Subhash 84-5
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyam 123
Chartered accountants, demand for 71-2
Chatterjee, Anjan 86
Chatterjee, Robi 175
Chaudhary, Rajendra 184
Chaudhuri, Nirad 31, 90
Chauhan, Sanju 149
Chhel, Sanjay 145
Chhotanagpur, flower marketing in 78
China 177-80
economic achievements 177
education in 105, 115
Chinai, Alisha 141
Chishti, Khwaja Moinuddin 164
Chomsky, Noam 83
Christianity 63, 90, 94, 161, 162, 185
Churchill, Sir Winston 134
Cipla 86
Civilization, structure of 101
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order 12
Classical Indian culture 142
Cohen, Stephen P. 3, 54, 158
Congress Party 49, 55, 80, 159, 165, 168
Constituent Assembly 8, 48, 111
Constitution of India, Article 45 104
Consumerism 82
Corruption 3, 5, 7, 8, 13, 20, 44, 46, 70-75, 191
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 119
Credit card industry 82
Culture 2-3, 9, 11, 12, 30, 54, 135
Dabbawallahs 75
Dabur 87
Dainik Bhaskar 144
Dainik Jagran 144
Dalmia, Abhishek 86
Darul Uloom, Deoband 170
Das, Gurcharan 82
Dawn 169
Deepavali festival 59
Deference and hostility, dialectic of 34
Deloitte Consulting 132
Democracy
acoustics of 179-80
appurtenances of 178
culture of 53
empowerment bestowed by 42, 51, 52-3
in France, Britain and USA 18-19
infrastructure 43
instrument for pursuit of power 50
as a means to enhance status 7, 9, 43
and poverty 180
practice of 51
success of 54-5
survival of 3, 4, 7, 50, 51, 175
unexpected triumph of 0
working of 40, 42, 179
Democratic politics 10, 136 machinery of 50
