Articles by Achin Vanaik

• Subcontinental Strategies
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR 70, July-August 2011, pp. 100-114
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , India
  

  Achin Vanaik explores the specificities of India’s social formation and its lefts, in the only country where both Stalinism and Maoism remain significant political actors. In the wake of recent electoral reverses, what are the prospects for radical renewal?

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• Misconceiving Asia
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR 59, September-October 2009, pp. 138-144
  Subjects: China , Japan , India
  

  Achin Vanaik on Bill Emmott, Rivals. Contending Asian powers as arbiters of the 21st century, through Western establishment eyes.

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• The New Himalayan Republic
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR 49, January-February 2008, pp. 47-72
  Subjects: Southeast Asia
  

  The overthrow of the monarchy in Nepal, brought about by a prolonged people’s war and massive popular mobilizations. Achin Vanaik sets out the complex socio-historical backdrop to the Second Democratic Revolution of 2006, the ensuing struggle for a new republic, and the tactical challenges facing the CPN-M.

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• Strategy after Bush
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR 42, November-December 2006, pp. 151-157
  Subjects: United States , International Relations
  

  Achin Vanaik on Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Choice. Clinton’s grey eminence ponders the hegemon’s next moves. What changes are required for imperial strategy to remain the same?

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• Myths of the Permit Raj
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR 29, September-October 2004, pp. 153-160
  Subjects: India
  

  Achin Vanaik on Vivek Chibber, Locked in Place. Why did India’s post-Independence planning not produce a South Korean economic take-off?

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• Rendezvous at Mumbai
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR 26, March-April 2004, pp. 53-65
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , India , Movements
  

  The fourth World Social Forum, in the neoliberal capital of the global South. Soaring elite consumption, widening inequality and anti-Muslim pogroms of Shining India, with the New Hindu Right set for fresh electoral victory.

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• The New Indian Right
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR 9, May-June 2001, pp. 43-67
  Subjects: India
  

  What is the nature of the BJP regime in Delhi—does it offer a viable formula for neoliberal rule in the subcontinent? Bigotry of the market: bigotry of the temple—is a lasting union between them possible? The obsessions and mystifications of Hindu communalism.

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• Reflections on Communalism and Nationalism in India
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR I/196, November-December 1992, pp. 43-63
  Subjects: India
  

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• The Indian Left
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR I/159, September-October 1986, pp. 49-70
  Subjects: Communist Movement , India
  

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• The Rajiv Congress in Search of Stability
  • Achin Vanaik

  in NLR I/154, November-December 1985, pp. 55-82
  Subjects: India
  

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