Janaki Nair

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Janaki Nair

Janaki Nair retired from the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, in 2020. She now lives and teaches in Bengaluru.

A Nava Karnataka as Part of ‘New India’

Karnataka’s land reforms and creative backward-caste alliances in the 1970s and 1980s broke the dominance of landed castes and spurred innovative development programmes. Today, the state is forsaking…

▶31-Jan-2022

Janaki Nair, A R Vasavi

Subverting Reservations in Karnataka

The unusual sight of Karnataka's influential swamis at the forefront of protests to tweak reservation quotas portends the end of reservations as a constitutional means for social justice, and a…

▶27-May-2021

Janaki Nair

Janaki Nair

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A Nava Karnataka as Part of ‘New India’

Subverting Reservations in Karnataka