Articles by Ramnath Narayanswamy

any journey of the self" (p 184).
The book concludes on the note that Gandhi's life rested on the "premise of inclusivity, that we are all part of one another and violence retards that realisation"(p200). In a world full of ethnic and racial conflicts, it is worthwhile to remember Gandhi's ability to transcend difference. But it is unfortunate that Dalton's emphasis on this theme had to be at the expense of obscuring Gandhi's critique of modernity in the colonies. After all, Gandhi and Franz Fanon. the other THE blurb on the back cover of this tantalisingty slim volume describes the author as "the foremost scholar on Central Asia" who completed "his entire formal and research education in Delhi" and "also studied in the United States" and eventually "retired from Jawaharlal Nehru University as Professor of Central Asian Studies". For some reason, the discipline of the learned professor is not mentioned; it is therefore not deaf whether the author is a historian, political scientist, economist or sociologist. The blurb on the front cover on the other hand describes the volume as a "study of the positions of China and Russia in Central .Asia up to 1991 when Russia withdrew from there". Such distinguished credentials about a region which has traditionally been poorly understood by the outside world encourage the reader to pick up the book with the legitimate expectation of gaining insights into the developments that have caused a complete transformation of the political and economic landscape of this strategic region in the wake of the demise of the erstwhile Soviet Union in December 1991.

Regulation Theorists and East European Reform Economics Ramnath Narayanswamy A preliminary balance sheet of the works by regulation theorists on centrally planned economies indicates that the contributions made by these theorists towards advancing our understanding of prevailing forms of crises in the former socialist economies of eastern Europe are indeed substantial.

The recent developments in the Soviet Union were the unintended consequences of a reformer who could not quite pull off the revolution he intended, arguably because he worked to unite socialism and democracy in a manner that was not susceptible to the unity he sought.

and Political Instability Ramnath Narayanswamy Officially there is no ambiguity in the Albanian response to perestroika in the USSR: it is openly hostile. However, despite such hostility to not only perestroika but also the recent developments in eastern Europe, current indications suggest that the Albanian leadership may be running out of time.

Ramnath Narayanswamy The foreign indebtedness of East bloc countries has reached unprecedented levels, and this problem fits into the larger crisis facing their economies.