Articles by V Subramaniam

If doctoral theses in the social sciences are any indication of the status of research in these disciplines in India, it is in poor shape.

emerged with the Janata party holding power at the Centre and in the northern states and the CPI(M), the Congress and the AIADMK holding power in West Bengal and in the southern states. The challenge thus posed to the Indian political system is widely recognised even if it is not well understood or analysed. But the special test it imposes on the administrative system is not acknowledged except in terms of a personal equation by the administrators and politicians concerned.

which period elections were to be held in the country for a government for entire Vietnam, according to the Geneva Agreements. But the Vietnamese people were betrayed. The US sent Ngo Dinh Diem to Saigon, helped him established a dictatorship there and flagrantly violated the Geneva Agreements by not allowing the elections to be held. Thus the very temporary division of Vietnam was perpetuated and the southern half was turned into a new kind of colony of the US. Later, the US intervened directly and the Vietnamese patriots had to fight for over 20 years to completely liberate and reunify their THE November 15th elections in Quebec was described even before they were held by the news media as the "most important" in Canadian history; and so they have proved to be, with the Parti Quebecois, led by Rene Levesque and committed to an independent Quebec winning a thumping victory. It is however being said that the results cannot be taken to mean the end of Canada as a federation, or the birth of a free Quebec; and even Rene Levesque has said that he is in no great hurry. The immediate message of the election results, as a leader of Francophones outside Quebec put it, is that the Frenchwill not tolerate being ignored any more in Canada. For over a century the French in Canada had grumbled and complained but had not expressed themselves so strongly.

rupted. Teheran's chronic conflict with Baghdad and the latter's recent treaty with Moscow have strengthened the Iranian resolve to be the dominant naval power in the Persian Gulf. The next logical step, from the Shah's point of view, is to establish Iran as an important maritime power in the Indian Ocean. This process will, of course, require active assistance from the military-industrial networks of the West.

claim all credit for the settlement for themselves. This arrangement was entirely to the liking of DMK and the Chief Minister for two reasons. First, none of the central trade unions have much of a following among the Simp- son workers and so individually and collectively they would be a far less formidable hurdle to DMK's designs than Kuchelar who had built up a strong base for himself among the workers. Second, DMK can depend upon the certainty that the central trade union organisations represented on the trade union committee will fall out among themselves over the conduct of the affairs of the union and over the .sharing out of loaves and fishes when the time conies for electing the new union executive. This will leave DMK, which is represented on the trade union committee by the president of its Progressive Labour Federation, in a position to play a dominant role in the affairs of the union. The settlement arrived at with the leaders of the central trade union organisations may thus FROM the time of the Non-aligned Conference in Lusaka in September 1970, Indians interested in African affairs have become mure aware of the differences in attitude between the leaders of English-speaking African countries such as Kenya, Tanzania or Zambia and the leaders of French-speaking African countries such as Senegal, Ivory Coast or Congo (Brazzaville) to important issues connected with colonialism and its aftermath.1 Thus, on the issue of French arms sales to South Africa, the French-speaking African countries refused to name France in the earlier resolutions of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) condemning such arms sales. This fact was referred to pointedly at the Non-aligned Conference. At the OAU summit meeting last Juno, the Francophone African leader Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast led those who advocated a dialogue with South Africa. In general, Francophone African leaders still preserve the most cordial, if not filial, relations with the former colonial power in contrast to other newly independent countries.