Articles by V Anil Kumar

The study of exclusion in social terms by itself is inadequate. Any attempt to understand and explicate exclusion either historically or contemporarily has to pay attention to interdisciplinary approaches. This note emphasises that the approach should be via understanding the operation of economic forces in particular and interdisciplinarity in general.

The combined effort of the Karnataka state government and civil society to eradicate child labour in the state is an interesting phenomenon. After a Herculean effort to rescue and rehabilitate child labourers, both the above actors attempt to "mainstream" them, i e, admit them to regular government schools. The "mainstreaming" becomes the ultimate goal of the entire attempt to eradicate child labour. This is often of limited impact and of uncertain outcome.

Why Telengana?
Why Now?
V ANIL KUMAR Andhra Pradesh is now a divided state. The movement for a separate state of Telengana is fast gaining momentum. The reasons for this are economic and political as well as social and cultural. In their recent writings on Telengana, both C H Hanumantha Rao (The Hindu, January 8, 2007) and M Kodanda Ram (EPW, January 13, 2007) have explicated the economic, and to some extent, political reasons for the movement for separate Telengana. I want to argue here that the reasons are as much social and cultural as they are economic and political. Both the above writers argued that there is certain