Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 03:05:37 -0800
From: djones-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu (rakesh bhandari)
Subject: M-I: Rakesh's post(s)(Putting them in order)


I made the mistake of not numbering the posts. The order is as follows:

1. Planning, -1980
2. towards liberalization
3. Federalism/Caste&Class/Communalism (2posts)
4. South Asian Cooperation

 I had tried to send Nirmal Kumar Chandra's article as an attachment, which
I thought people could dispose of easily if they were not interested.
However, that single post with attachment was bounced back to Louis G. I
would not have attempted to post the essay yesterday if I knew it would
have to broken down and I would violate the three-post limit. If I had
remembered that I could  send it to an archive, I would have done so;
Hugh's suggestion here is a good one. Also, I could have sent the four
posts, two before and two after midnight.

(I am sorry that Hugh had to waste a post to comment on the problems
created by my violation of the limit; this is not fair to Hugh or anyone
else.)

I will not post again today or tomorrow.

 By the way, Chandra is a professor at the School of Management in
Calcutta, and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics.

Though Chandra critically discusses the centralization of the Indian
polity, his essay is a rather traditional defense of government plannning,
and he  thus does not dig very deep into the histories of the communist
parties of  Kerala and West Bengal and the nationalist elites immediately
after independence. Insofar as they are understood to have embraced
"planning" or "land reform", they are treated with kid gloves.  But I think
there is much of value in the essay, especially its political commentary on
Kashmir and the BJP.

rb

ps I can send the bibliography to anyone interested.





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