Eqbal Ahmad
Biographic Data
| ID | 95333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eqbal Ahmad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eqbal |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmad |
| SIGNATURE | AHMAD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transnational Institute, Washington and Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Comparative Analysis of Crime Stories Published in leading English Newspapers of Delhi Edition
With the boom in media industry in India, News has become a product to be consumed by the readers and viewers and, thus, sold in terms of attracting revenue by boosting circulation and rating than providing pure information to aware the mass and empower people. In most cases, news is determined on the basis of public craze, not requirement. This fact of Indian journalism has led to over emphasis on Sensational, Political and Crime Reporting. Toda…
Straight Talk on Terrorism
Eqbal Ahmad first wrote for MR in 1968, and was a valued friend and contributor over the years, writing articles on a number of occasions on topics related to the third world, including his important article "From Potato Sack to Potato Mash: On the Contemporary Crisis of the Third World" (March 1981). For many years he was managing editor of the important journal Race and Class. This article is taken from a speech he delivered at the University o…
Terrorism
India 2020
We started well enough after independence but the lack of progress on many fronts thereafter is a major cause for concern. An old fatalism has begun to reassert itself and we have begun to lose our confidence. In India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, our most distinguished scientist, and Y.S. Rajan, who has been closely associated with the space programme, examine our strengths--and weaknesses--to offer a vision of h…
South Asia
Racism and the State
International relations are in the process of transformation. The uncertainties over the shape of things to come are greater today than they were at the end of World War II. Then, we knew the salients of the world in the making: There were the victors who would shape the world order and the vanquished who would adapt to it. Decolonization was a predictable occurrence; the only question was the ease and pace with which it would be accomplished. Th…
Middle East Peace Priorities in the US
Eqbal Ahmad, Jeanne Butterfield, Noam Chomsky, Denis F. Doyon, Deena Hurwitz, Sheila Ryan, James Zogby, Middle East Peace Priorities in the US: Seven Perspectives, Middle East Report, No. 158, Palestine and Israel in the US Arena (May - Jun., 1989), pp. 6-11
Pakistan after Zia
Comprehending Terror
Pioneering' in the nuclear age
Yasser Arafat's Nightmare
The Public Relations of Ethnocide
Imperial democracies have a history of performing absolution by judicial bath. Among the dozens of examples are the trial of Robert Clive (1725-1774), a founder of the British empire in South Asia and the first English governor of Bengal; the impeachment of Warren Hastings (17321818), the first Governor-General of the British dominion in India; the conviction of General Michael O'Dwyer, author of the 1919 massacre of Jalian Wala Bagh; and the cou…
The Public Relations of Ethnocide
From Potato Sack to Potato Mash
The small-holding peasants form a vast mass, the members of which live in similar conditions but without entering into manifold relations with one another. Their mode of production isolates them from one another instead of bringing them into mutual intercourse...In this way, the great mass of the French nation is formed by the simple addition of homologous magnitudes, much as potatoes' in a sack form a sack of potatoes. - Karl Marx, The Eighteent…
Eqbal Ahmad
The Iranian revolution
Memorial for an exile
On 2 February 1977 Rashed Hussein, Palestinian poet and journalist, died in New York City. A week later he was buried in Mus Mus, his ancestral home in Galilee. This restitution of his final right was made possible by the efforts of his friends in Israel and by international pressure. His funeral aroused deep emotions among the native Palestinians who turned out in their thousands to attend. Eqbal Ahmad spoke at his memorial service in New York
Human Rights in Morocco and Tunisia
Indictment for conspiracy to murder Orlando Letel ier
M'hamed Ali and the Tunisian labour movement
The logic of military intervention
A World Restored' revisited
America and Russia in South Asia
Disbelief, incomprehension and anger were common reactions to U.S. policy during the political crisis which ended in the break-up of Pakistan. President Nixon incurred wide and bi-partisan criticism in the American Congress and the press for supporting the Pakistani military government despite the latter's brutal suppression of the popular movement for autonomy in East Pakistan. No one seemed to discern any rationale—moral, political, or economic…
Pakistan-Signposts to a Police state
Pakistan
India 2020
We started well enough after independence but the lack of progress on many fronts thereafter is a major cause for concern. An old fatalism has begun to reassert itself and we have begun to lose our confidence. In India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, our most distinguished scientist, and Y.S. Rajan, who has been closely associated with the space programme, examine our strengths--and weaknesses--to offer a vision of h…
Pakistan-Signposts to a Police state
Straight Talk on Terrorism
Eqbal Ahmad first wrote for MR in 1968, and was a valued friend and contributor over the years, writing articles on a number of occasions on topics related to the third world, including his important article "From Potato Sack to Potato Mash: On the Contemporary Crisis of the Third World" (March 1981). For many years he was managing editor of the important journal Race and Class. This article is taken from a speech he delivered at the University o…
The Public Relations of Ethnocide
The Iranian revolution
M'hamed Ali and the Tunisian labour movement
The logic of military intervention
Further notes on South Asia in crisis
I wish I could begin by thanking Dr. Mahajani for the compliments she pays me. But the accusations which follow, including the suggestions that I have echoed Mr. Nixon, underplayed the atrocities committed by Yahya's government, and carefully avoided criticizing Mr. Bhutto, seem to indicate that she does not really believe in my intellectual stature or moral courage. And I am not inclined to retract any statements on the ground suggested by Dr. M…
L'evolution du mouvement syndical en Afrique Occidentale
Radical but Wrong
For someone who lacks first-hand knowledge of Latin America it appears at first difficult, if not hazardous, to comment on Regis Debray's Revolution in the Revolution? The basic framework within which the book moves concerns the uniqueness of the "tactical content" of the Cuban among modern revolutions, and its importance as a model for Latin America. Debray believes that the Russian, Chinese, and Vietnamese revolutions are poor examples for Sout…
African Trade Unions
Palestine Struggle
Communications
Before I bring you up to date on the Harrisburg indictments ... there has been a second round of indictments since I last wrote ... I want to thank CCAS chapters for their immediate response to the January 12, 1971 indictment of fellow CCAS member, Eqbal Ahmad. We had so many speaking requests that we were unable to work all of them into Eqbal's extremely full schedule. We did make a lot of bread and each place that he spoke, for the most part, h…
Theories of counterinsurgency
I propose to examine briefly the theoretical basis of research which, when politically feasible, is carried out by institutes like the Vietnamese Studies Center here and certainly by some of the people associated with it — research that is inextricably related to the counterrevolutionary posture of the U.S. government agency that is funding it. Before doing so, however, let me ask one basic preliminary question. What, after all, is the meaning of…
Indian Invasion
Vietnam
Notes on South Asia in Crisis
(1972). Notes on South Asia in Crisis. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 23-29
Pakistan
Pakistan, Bangladesh, India
Further notes on South Asia in crisis
I wish I could begin by thanking Dr. Mahajani for the compliments she pays me. But the accusations which follow, including the suggestions that I have echoed Mr. Nixon, underplayed the atrocities committed by Yahya's government, and carefully avoided criticizing Mr. Bhutto, seem to indicate that she does not really believe in my intellectual stature or moral courage. And I am not inclined to retract any statements on the ground suggested by Dr. M…
America and Russia in South Asia
Disbelief, incomprehension and anger were common reactions to U.S. policy during the political crisis which ended in the break-up of Pakistan. President Nixon incurred wide and bi-partisan criticism in the American Congress and the press for supporting the Pakistani military government despite the latter's brutal suppression of the popular movement for autonomy in East Pakistan. No one seemed to discern any rationale—moral, political, or economic…
Pakistan-Signposts to a Police state
The logic of military intervention
A World Restored' revisited
Human Rights in Morocco and Tunisia
Indictment for conspiracy to murder Orlando Letel ier
M'hamed Ali and the Tunisian labour movement
The Iranian revolution
Memorial for an exile
On 2 February 1977 Rashed Hussein, Palestinian poet and journalist, died in New York City. A week later he was buried in Mus Mus, his ancestral home in Galilee. This restitution of his final right was made possible by the efforts of his friends in Israel and by international pressure. His funeral aroused deep emotions among the native Palestinians who turned out in their thousands to attend. Eqbal Ahmad spoke at his memorial service in New York
Eqbal Ahmad
From Potato Sack to Potato Mash
The small-holding peasants form a vast mass, the members of which live in similar conditions but without entering into manifold relations with one another. Their mode of production isolates them from one another instead of bringing them into mutual intercourse...In this way, the great mass of the French nation is formed by the simple addition of homologous magnitudes, much as potatoes' in a sack form a sack of potatoes. - Karl Marx, The Eighteent…
Yasser Arafat's Nightmare
The Public Relations of Ethnocide
Imperial democracies have a history of performing absolution by judicial bath. Among the dozens of examples are the trial of Robert Clive (1725-1774), a founder of the British empire in South Asia and the first English governor of Bengal; the impeachment of Warren Hastings (17321818), the first Governor-General of the British dominion in India; the conviction of General Michael O'Dwyer, author of the 1919 massacre of Jalian Wala Bagh; and the cou…
Political science (28 works) · History (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Development economics (6 works)