Articles by Gail Omvedt

US under its laws, going so far as to stipulate that the laws of other countries should be amended on this basis. The US administration has found it convenient to put India prominently in the list of offending countries under super 301 and special 301 of its trade law. In the event of India failing to fall in line in the GAIT negotiations, the threat of trade sanctions against India would loom large. Faced with a difficult balance of payments position and anxious to promote exports at all costs, the danger of the Indian government succumbing to the mounting pressure in the GATT round has thus tended to grow. The open advocacy by influential bureaucrats, the most notable among them being India's ambassador in Washington, Abid Hussain and businessmen with strong collaboration links with multinationals, who articulate their stand through Assocham, has in recent weeks queered the pitch for the government in the GATT negotiations.

Gandhi and Ambedkar Gail Omvedt The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume I: Civilisation, Politics and Religion; Volume II: Truth and Nonviolence edited by Raghavan Iyer; The Clarendon Press, Oxford.

The political economy of India might well be characterised as 'four anna socialisms-socialism not in the sense of representing the equalitarian communist ideal, but in sharing significant features of the regimes that have now fallen in eastern Europe.

Vitner, remote village in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district, voted a women's panel in the gram panchayat elections and chose a woman as sarpanch. And Vitner's peasants went even beyond women's political power and took up the problem of women's economic rights. 127 families actually turned over legal property rights to women.

Greening India Gail Omvedt Towards Green Villages: A Strategy for Environmentally-Sound and Participatory Rural Development by Anil Agrawal and Sunita Narain; Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 1989.