provinceorstate:gujarat

Uzbekistan offers 20,000 hectare land to farmers, firms

Farmers, agro processing biz units and others will soon come together in a conglomerate of sorts as part of an MoU signed between #Gujarat_Agro_Industries_Corporation (#GAIC) and the Republic of Uzbekistan. As part of the #MoU, the Uzbek government has also offered around 20,000 ha of land for farming, as well as for agro industries in the Central Asian Country.

The MoU calls for formation of various agencies under GAIC to provide training for capacity building and facilitate technology transfer between both the countries, said a government official.

“We are looking at farm to fork solutions and the Uzbek government has offered 20,000 ha of land. This means even farmers from Gujarat will be able to make use of the opportunity,” said Sanjay Prasad additional chief secretary, department of Agriculture at the inaugural session on sustainable technology driven agriculture for new India at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2019 on Sunday.

KS Randhawa, Managing Director, GAIC said that it will provide the opportunity for formation of agro processing clusters. “Several players can come together to make use of the opportunity provided by the MoU. The Uzbek government was very keen on the project and we plan to create a conglomerate of sorts that will deal with various aspects of agro processing under the leadership of GAIC,” said Randhawa. He said they are looking at farm to fork solutions. “So what we are saying is that we can look at the opportunity to not only produce something but also get into value addition and provide the final product too,” said Randhawa. He said as part of the MoU the Uzbek government has not only offered land but also the technology. "This transfer of technology will also also enable our farmers and businessmen to use it in Gujarat. This is a win-win-deal,"s aid Randhawa.

It should be noted that in all 28360 MoUs were signed during the three days of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2019 of which 408 were in the agro food processing sector.

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La photo du jour (hier, 31/05/2018) de Reuters
En fait, un ensemble de 14 images prises 2 jours avant sur la plage d’#Alang #Alang_shipyard

The ship graveyard in Gujarat | Reuters.com
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The Right-Wing Assault on the Truth in India Claims the Life of Another Journalist | Alternet
▻https://www.alternet.org/world/right-wing-assault-truth-india-claims-life-another-journalist

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Unfortunately, today anybody talking in support of human rights and against fake encounters [extrajudicial killings] is branded a Maoist supporter. Along with that, my criticism of Hindutva [aggressive majoritarian ideology that stands for a Hindu Theocratic State] politics and the caste system, which is part and parcel of what is considered ‘Hindu dharma,’ makes my critics brand me as a ‘Hindu hater.’ But I consider it my constitutional duty to continue—in my own little way—the struggle of Basavanna and Dr. Ambedkar towards establishing an egalitarian society.” —Gauri Lankesh

These were the recent words of journalist, activist and writer Gauri Lankesh, gunned down on the night of Sept. 5, 2017.

One of the sharpest cleavages currently simmering within India, a conflict that has a potential of impacting all of South Asia, is this fundamental battle of ideas, convictions and orientation: the politics of a modern, liberal, secular, socialist, democratic state and the violent push of several forces to turn India into a theocratic dispensation. Gauri Lankesh’s death cannot be de-linked from this, especially given her sharp, effective and brave response to preserve a rational and modern India. In June of 2013, then chief minister of Gujarat, the present prime minister of India, Narendra Modi had congratulated the extreme right wing’s convention ’aimed to convert India into a theocratic state.’

#Inde #Facisme

La « route de la liberté  », contre-projet de l’Inde face à la « route de la soie »
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2017/08/09/la-route-de-la-liberte-contre-projet-de-l-inde-face-a-la-route-de-la-soie_51

La « #route_de_la_liberté » contre la « route de la soie ». Seulement quelques jours après l’organisation du premier « sommet des routes de la soie » à Pékin, le premier ministre indien Narendra Modi a dévoilé, en mai, à l’occasion d’une réunion de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) qui se tenait pour la première fois à Ahmedabad, en Inde, un autre projet de route commerciale : le « corridor de la croissance Asie Afrique » (#AAGC, #Asia_Africa_Growth_Corridor), surnommé la « route de la liberté ».

L’AAGC propose de créer une région Indo-Pacifique « libre et ouverte » en redynamisant d’anciennes routes maritimes reliant l’Afrique au Pacifique, en passant par l’Asie du Sud et l’Asie du Sud-Est. Le projet porté par le Japon et l’Inde est aux antipodes des « routes de la soie ». Il met l’accent sur le « développement durable » plutôt que sur le commerce, et s’appuie exclusivement sur les voies maritimes à « bas coût » avec une « faible empreinte carbone ».

Selon le document préparatoire rendu public en mai, la « route de la liberté » reposera sur quatre piliers : le renforcement des compétences, la construction d’infrastructures durables, les projets de coopération dans les domaines de la santé, de l’agriculture, du secteur manufacturier et de la gestion des catastrophes naturelles et, enfin, le partenariat de « personne à personne ». Ces nouveaux corridors maritimes pourraient connecter le port de Jamnagar, au Gujarat, à Djibouti, ou encore Calcutta à Sittwe, au Myanmar. Le Japon offrira son expertise en matière de construction d’infrastructures et l’Inde mettra à profit sa présence sur le continent africain.

Machines
un film de Rahul Jain, 2016

Machines ▻https://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/machines

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Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain’s debut documentary — winner of the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival — takes audiences into the labyrinthine passages of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, India. Jain’s camera wanders freely between pulsating machines and bubbling vats of dye to create a moving portrait of the human laborers who toil away there for 12 hours a day to eke out a meager living for their families back home. Interviews with these workers and the factory owners who employ them reveal the stark inequality and dangerous working conditions brought about by unregulated industrialization in the region.

via ▻https://diasp.eu/posts/5843781

#Inde #industrie_textile #inégalité #globalisation #travail #exploitation #docu #cinéma #film #migrations

Myanmar swine flu outbreak kills 10 as Government rushed to stop spread - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-31/myanmar-swine-flu-death-toll-rises-to-10/8761192

Ten people have died in an outbreak of #H1N1 influenza in Myanmar, a health official has said, as the Government stepped up public awareness campaigns about the swine flu virus.

The latest outbreak began more than a week ago, deputy director of the infectious diseases department at the Ministry of Health and Sport, Thinzar Aung, said.

Yangon — Myanmar’s biggest city — is the worst affected area.

Health awareness campaigns have been carried out and authorities sought to calm public fears over the outbreak, although stores have sold out of surgical masks in Yangon.

Authorities have told the public not to panic and described the latest outbreak as a regular seasonal occurrence.

India seizes ship with 1,500 kg of heroin off Gujarat coast
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-heroin-idUSKBN1AF0FU

India’s navy seized a ship carrying about 1,500 kg of heroin worth 35 billion rupees ($545 million) on Sunday in what it said was its biggest ever drugs haul.

The vessel, which was operating under the name MV Henry under the Panama flag, was intercepted off the Gujarat coast near the city of Porbandar, said S. Paramesh, deputy director general at the Indian Coast Guard.

It was sailing from Dubai to Alang, a town in Gujarat known for shipbreaking, Paramesh said.

India becomes “frontline” state in US war plans against China - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/03/07/inus-m07.html

India becomes “frontline” state in US war plans against China
7 March 2017

India is to become a major service and repair hub for the US Seventh Fleet—the armada that is at the center of US war preparations against China.

Last month the Pentagon awarded a contract, said to be worth up to $1.5 billion over the next five years, to a shipyard in Gujarat to maintain the Seventh Fleet’s warships, patrol and service vessels.

This is a strategic move aimed at giving flesh and blood to last August’s agreement opening India’s military bases and ports to routine use by the US military for the resupply and repair of its warplanes and warships.

#inde #chine #Tats-unis #thalassocratie #géopolitique #géostratégie

L’Inde a vécu la plus grande grève de l’histoire humaine
▻http://www.directmatin.fr/monde/2016-09-03/linde-vecu-la-plus-grande-greve-de-lhistoire-humaine-737701

Selon les syndicats, ce seraient ainsi près de 180 millions de travailleurs, hommes et femmes, qui ont manifesté pour s’opposer à la politique économique du gouvernement. L’Inde comptant environ 1,250 milliards d’individus, ce serait donc un septième de la population qui a arrêté le travail pour une journée. Mais ces chiffres n’ont toutefois pas pu être vérifiés de façon indépendante.

The Biggest Strike in World History ? No Thanks, We’re Focusing on the New iPhone
▻http://fair.org/home/the-biggest-strike-in-world-history-no-thanks-were-focusing-on-the-new-iphone

And yet there was virtually no coverage of the strike in commercial US media, according to searches of the Nexis news database. Not a word on ABC, CBS or NBC. No mention on the main cable news networks—CNN, Fox and MSNBC—either. (The Intercept‘s Zaid Jilani—9/6/16—noted that there was one mention on CNN International, when “the CEO of the human resources consulting firm ManpowerGroup cited the Indian strike as part of global concerns about technology suppressing wages.”) Neither the PBS NewsHour nor NPR touched the story.

Not a single US newspaper found in the Nexis database—which includes most of the major papers, like the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today—reported an original story on the strike. (Associated Press had a brief, 289-word report, which ran on the New York Times‘ website and was doubtless picked up by other papers.) The Wall Street Journal, whose full text isn’t on Nexis, also skipped the Indian strike story.

That’s an example of the kind of story US corporate media don’t care about. What do they care about? Well, Apple is planning to release a new version of the iPhone next week. That’s already making news: CBS did a segment on its Money Watch program (9/7/16) previewing the phone, as did NPR‘s Morning Edition and All Things Considered (9/7/16); the product was front-page news in USA Today (9/8/16) and the Wall Street Journal (9/8/16), while you had to turn to page A12 in the Washington Post (9/7/16) or the first page of the business section in the New York Times (9/8/16) to get your future cellphone news.

A hundred million or more workers striking for their rights hold no interest for the news managers in US corporate media. But a new gadget from a prominent advertiser? Now, that’s the news that’s fit to print.

La « #réalité » telle que façonnée par les #MSM

India’s PM Modi Criticizes Cow Vigilantes
▻http://www.ibtimes.com/indias-pm-modi-criticizes-cow-vigilantes-2398443

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticized the so-called cow vigilantes Saturday, saying such people made him “angry.”

Self-appointed cow vigilantes have fashioned themselves as protectors of cows, an animal which is considered sacred by many Hindus. These cow vigilantes were responsible for the public flogging of four Dalit men (Dalits are the lowest of the four castes in India’s traditional caste system) for skinning a dead cow in July. The incident took place in Modi’s home state of Gujarat in eastern India. In a separate incident, vigilantes attacked two Muslim women who were allegedly carrying beef in Madhya Pradesh state in central India.
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He added that he would urge state governments to prepare a dossier on cow vigilantes. He also said that “70-80 percent [of cow vigilantes] will be those who indulge in anti-social activities and try to hide their sins by pretending to be Gau Rakshaks. If they are true protectors, they should realize that most cows die because of plastic, not slaughter. They should stop cows from eating plastic.”

The prime minister said that nearly two buckets worth of plastic was removed from the stomach of one of the cows when he was working at a health camp for cows.

India’s Dalits strike back at centuries of oppression by letting dead cows rot on the streets — Quartz
▻http://qz.com/738758/indias-dalits-strike-back-at-centuries-of-oppression-by-letting-dead-cows-rot-on

Politics over the cow, deemed holy by many Hindus, has roiled India for years. In recent times, it has turned nasty, with Indians lynching or humiliating fellow Indians on mere suspicion of having killed cows or eaten beef.
In the latest instance, four young men skinning a dead cow, along with another aged person, were mercilessly thrashed by a group of cow-protection vigilantes in Gujarat’s Una on July 11. Stripped and tethered to a car, the four were paraded publicly in Una even as they were walloped for almost five hours. One woman, too, was assaulted. And all the while, despite being approached, the police failed to act.

#inde #caste

Plus de 2.000 Indiens atteints du sida après des transfusions sanguines
▻http://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/maladie/plus-de-2000-indiens-atteints-du-sida-apres-des-transfusions-sanguines_

En Inde, dans un pays où le sida est tabou, quelque 2,5 millions de personnes sont porteuses du VIH sur une population de 1,25 milliard de personnes, selon les statistiques officielles. Chetan Kothari, un militant, révèle que 2.234 personnes ont été infectées par le VIH entre octobre 2014 et mars 2016 suite à une transfusion sanguine après avoir consulté des données de l’Agence nationale de la lutte contre le sida (NACO) indienne.

« Je voulais savoir ce que faisait le gouvernement pour assurer aux gens qu’ils ont accès à du sang non contaminé », confie-t-il à l’AFP. L’activiste avait donc fait une demande de droit à l’information (RTI) auprès de la NACO. Selon lui, les données qu’il a examinées, et auxquelles l’AFP a pu avoir accès ce mercredi 1er juin 2016, « montrent que le sang n’est pas soumis à une détection du VIH en dépit de la connaissance des risques ».

La loi indienne prévoit pourtant que les hôpitaux testent les donneurs et leur sang pour toute sorte d’infection, dont le VIH, l’hépatite B et C et le paludisme. « Chaque test coûte environ 1.200 roupies (16 euros), et la plupart des hôpitaux en Inde ne possèdent pas l’équipement nécessaire pour réaliser ces examens », explique Chetan Kothari, dans une interview à la BBC. 

L’accès à du sang non contaminé, en particulier en zone rurale, est limité en Inde en raison de l’insuffisance d’appareils de détection, reconnaît la NACO sur son site Internet. L’Etat le plus peuplé de l’Inde, l’Uttar Pradesh (nord), apparaît en tête avec 361 patients contaminés par du sang contenant le VIH, suivi par le Gujarat (ouest) avec 292 cas et le Maharashtra (ouest) avec 276. À New Delhi, 264 cas ont été enregistrés.

Land reform failures: Only 5% of India’s farmers control 32% farmland | Landportal
▻https://www.landportal.info/news/2016/05/land-reform-failures-only-5-india%E2%80%99s-farmers-control-32-farmland

Five facts, gleaned from the 2011-12 agricultural census and 2011 socio-economic caste census and this correspondent’s data, summarise the failure of India’s land reforms:

– No more than 4.9% of farmers control 32% of India’s farmland.

– A “large” farmer in India has 45 times more land than the “marginal” farmer.

– Four million people, or 56.4% of rural households, own no land.

– Only 12.9% of land marked – the size of Gujarat – for takeover from landlords was taken over by December 2015.

– Five million acres — half the size of Haryana — was given to 5.78 million poor farmers by December 2015.

What has largely failed nationwide — with the exception of West Bengal — over 54 years since a land redistribution law was passed, is not likely to improve, according to data in a response this correspondent received to a Right to Information (RTI) application filed with the department of land resources of the Indian government’s Ministry of Rural Development.

#Inde #foncier #agriculture

Journalism as Genocide | The Wire
▻http://thewire.in/2016/03/30/journalism-as-genocide-25543
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French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien describes the behaviour by journalists in inciting hatred and violence as ‘the democratic alibi’. A democratic alibi divorces the question of ethics from the political, and employs the mechanisms of mass conditioning and mobilisation required to create group hatred. A democratic alibi is the precondition to riots, lynching, political trials, extrajudicial killings, military occupation and genocidal violence. Its legitimacy lies in the justification of collective violence either by the state or the mob, and begins by creating a dispensable enemy of the state – the “anti national”, “the secular”, “the minority”

An established pattern of presenting and commenting on the news transforms political debate into righteous passion against individuals and groups that disagree with the status quo. The targets of violence are marked with precision, taken as public hostages and accused of being enemies of the state. Later they explain what has to be done to this enemy. Through constant repetition, they construct a political, moral and historical alibi that eventually becomes the accepted truth. In this steady journey into the abyss of intolerance, journalists and news anchors become agents of the state and even annihilators of society. All the ingredients for conditioning a democratic alibi that existed in Nazi Germany and Rwanda exist in India today.

In the case of Gujarat and other instances, sections of the media were not only complicit in conditioning, inciting and producing the riot; they were also responsible for explaining, and interpreting the violence. They repeatedly justified the carnage as spontaneous mob violence, used language that neutralised “the horror and injustice of the subsequent violence”. Similarly in the case of the recent lynching in Nagaland of a Muslim man, Sayed Sarif Uddin Khan, on allegations of rape, there was a clear instance of misinformation and fabrication that amounted to incitement in the local media.

Maersk to scrap ships at certain Alang sites, NGO dismayed | Reuters
▻http://in.reuters.com/article/maersk-shipping-alang-idINKCN0VL1VZ

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Maersk Line said on Friday it had chosen four shipbreaking yards along India’s Alang beaches to handle an increase in vessels that need to be scrapped, to the dismay of some organisations that say the operations there are polluting and unsafe.

Mais c’est pour la bonne cause…

Maersk argues that as over 70 percent of all global vessels are scrapped at yards along the coasts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, “where serious challenges exist to improve current negative environmental and social conditions”, it is better to work with those few that meet international standards.

“These yards have chosen to invest so it’s really important that we and other shipowners support them. If we don’t, I’m pretty sure these yards would lose motivation to go for these standards,” said Maersk’s head of sustainability Annette Stube.

… mais pas que !

The world’s largest container shipper says the four yards in the Alang coast of Gujarat have been certified according to the Hong Kong Convention — health, safety and environmental standards developed by the International Maritime Organisation.

It said it will see a spike in the number of vessels it will need to scrap in the coming five years and that using other facilities in Turkey and China will cost it $150 million more.

I Went to India and Saw the Future of Climate-Smart Farming - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/i-went-to-india-and-saw-the-future-of-climate_smart-farming

Damara Dhanakrishna/EyeEmEarlier this fall, I traveled to central Gujarat and northern Punjab, in India, to meet with rural farmers who were trying new techniques to combat climate change. Sitting under a mango tree, I spoke with 65-year-old Raman Bhai Parmar, who told me about his solar-powered irrigation pump that was whooshing with water, deep underground. Behind me, he said, a concrete tank was catching the water’s flow, holding it until the nearby fields of bananas and rice needed it again. Parmar’s solar pump is one of an entire system of adaptation measures being implemented in roughly 80 test sites, called climate-smart villages, across six Indian states. Currently 1,500 of these are planned: 500 in Haryana, 500 in Punjab, and as many as 500 others throughout the country. Much (...)

Les musulmans à Bangalore sous Narendra Modi : une perspective du sud de l’Inde - Noria
▻http://www.noria-research.com/south-asia-paper-2-les-musulmans-a-bangalore-sous-narendra-modi-une-

En mai 2014, la victoire des nationalistes hindous aux élections législatives, sous la houlette du Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a permis à Narendra Modi de se hisser au pouvoir comme Premier ministre, alors même que son degré de responsabilité dans les pogroms anti-musulmans du Gujarat en 20022 avait soulevé nombre d’interrogations3. Modi a certes mené une campagne centrée sur le thème d’un développement de l’Inde associant l’ensemble de la société, y compris les minorités religieuses. Cependant, dès les premiers mois de la victoire du BJP, des tentatives de polarisation entre la majorité hindoue et les minorités religieuses ont été menées par les plus hautes sphères de l’État central. Dans quelle mesure le phénomène affecte-t-il l’Inde dans son ensemble ? Comment les différences régionales se manifestent-elles ?

Cet article propose de répondre à ces questions en prenant comme cas d’étude la ville cosmopolite de Bangalore considérée comme la Silicon Valley indienne. Située dans l’État méridional du Karnataka, cette ville présente non seulement l’intérêt d’abriter un nombre de musulmans correspondant à la moyenne nationale (14%), et originaires de diverses régions de l’Inde, mais elle est aussi connue pour la relative harmonie communautaire caractérisant les relations entre hindous et musulmans et engendrant chez ces derniers un sentiment de sécurité4. Ce sentiment résiste-t-il aux coups de boutoir portés à l’échelle nationale, voire régionale (Karnataka), par les nationalistes hindous ?

#inde #diversité_religieuse #minorités

En Inde, la surprenante révolte de la caste des Patel
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2015/08/26/en-inde-la-surprenante-revolte-de-la-caste-des-patel_4737477_3216.html

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Au lendemain des violentes manifestations de plusieurs centaines de milliers de membres de la communauté des « Patel », les autorités indiennes ont déployé des forces paramilitaires et décrété, mercredi 26 août, un couvre-feu dans plusieurs zones du Gujarat, dans l’ouest du pays. Six personnes sont mortes lors des affrontements. Les Patel, une caste qui représente entre 14 % et 20 % de la population de cette région, réclame des quotas dans l’administration et les universités, réservés seulement aux intouchables et « autres castes arriérées ».

« Les gens de la communauté des Patel ne trouvent pas d’emploi, même s’ils ont des diplômes. Les quotas sont notre droit », a lancé Hardik Patel devant la foule, mardi, avant de se faire brièvement arrêter par la police. Ce jeune homme âgé d’à peine 22 ans est devenu en quelques heures le visage d’une contestation qui n’a cessé de s’amplifier ces dernières semaines. Pour une caste qui est l’une des plus aisées et les plus influentes sur la scène politique régionale, ce mouvement a pris de court de nombreux responsables politiques et observateurs de la société indienne

Les Patel sont surtout connus pour être de riches entrepreneurs, des propriétaires terriens, et ils forment une vaste diaspora dans le monde entier, notamment aux Etats-Unis où les motels qu’ils dirigent sont si nombreux qu’on les surnomme les « potels ».

#lutte_de_castes #inde

Pauvreté et inégalités en Inde rurale
par Claire Aubron, Hugo Lehoux et Corentin Lucas

▻https://echogeo.revues.org/14226

Dans deux cantons de l’État du Gujarat, cet article s’intéresse aux systèmes agraires et à leurs relations avec la pauvreté rurale, composante essentielle du « grand écart spatial de l’Inde ». À partir d’un travail de terrain approfondi, il confirme l’extrême pauvreté qui sévit dans les campagnes indiennes, dans un État qui affiche pourtant un taux de croissance élevé. Il montre comment cette pauvreté s’explique par une inégale répartition de la terre, de l’eau, mais aussi de la valeur ajoutée, qui s’enracine dans des relations sociales de dépendance dont l’essence a été peu modifiée au cours des dernières décennies. Les activités non agricoles, pour importantes qu’elles soient, ne modifient pas ces inégalités. À la lumière de ce travail, les politiques de développement agricole visant la résorption des inégalités en zone rurale apparaissent plus que jamais nécessaires.

#inde #géographie #pauvreté #territoire #rural

En #Inde, des zones économiques très spéciales, par Clea Chakraverty
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/05/CHAKRAVERTY/52931

Un an après son arrivée au pouvoir, en mai 2014, le premier ministre indien Narendra Modi continue d’ériger en modèle économique les recettes expérimentées dans l’Etat du Gujarat, qu’il a dirigé de 2001 à 2014. [#st]

▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/1020 via Le Monde diplomatique

Être musulman(s) dans l’Inde de Narenda Modi : la vie de ghetto entre domination et résistance
▻http://www.noria-research.com/etre-musulmans-dans-linde-de-narendra-modi-la-vie-de-ghetto-entre-do

Le 26 mai prochain marquera la fin de la première année de mandature exercée par le nationaliste hindou Narendra Modi à la tête du gouvernement indien. A l’occasion de cet anniversaire, cet article se propose de revenir sur la situation de la minorité musulmane dans un pays gouverné par le Bharatyia Janata Party (Parti du peuple indien, BJP), formation politique nationaliste hindoue dont l’idéologie repose sur l’hindutva, soit l’« hindouité » supposée de l’Inde, aux dépens des autres minorités ethniques composant le pays[1] – notamment les 14% de musulmans et les 3% de chrétiens. Depuis un an, l’élection de Narendra Modi s’est traduite par des menaces accrues sur la liberté et les pratiques religieuses des minorités non hindoues, au premier rang desquelles les quelque 145 millions de musulmans indiens[2]. Cette situation est partagée par l’ensemble de la minorité dans le pays, avec des spécificités selon le contexte local. Pour cette raison, cet article traite du cas singulier des musulmans du Gujarat. Il propose une plongée dans le ghetto musulman de Juhapura, situé à sept kilomètres du centre-ville d’Ahmedabad, la capitale économique de l’État.[3] En effet, à plusieurs égards, regarder ce qui se passe à Juhapura, c’est comme poser une loupe sur la situation actuelle des musulmans indiens du Nord.

Tout d’abord, le Gujarat est l’État dans lequel Narendra Modi a bâti sa carrière politique, et dont il a vanté les résultats économiques au cours de la campagne électorale de 2014 comme gage de sa bonne gouvernance. C’est également l’État dans lequel ont eu lieu les pogroms anti-musulmans de 2002 dont Narendra Modi est considéré comme l’instigateur, quoiqu’il ait toujours été innocenté par la justice[4]. On parle ici de pogroms et non d’émeutes car les attaquants étaient exclusivement hindous et soutenus par la puissance publique, face à des victimes uniquement musulmanes. Les modalités de ces violences sont également à rapprocher des massacres de population, en ce qu’ils témoignent d’une volonté de tuer le corps physique et le corps symbolique de la minorité[5]. Selon les estimations des ONG, les pogroms ont fait deux mille morts, dont mille dans la seule ville d’Ahmedabad, et 150 000 déplacés internes. Les violences de 2002 constituent donc l’attaque la plus violente qu’aient connue les musulmans indiens dans leur pays, qu’il s’agisse du nombre de victimes comme des modalités d’assassinat. [...]

#Inde #Géographie #Géographie_de_l_Inde #Géographie_du_Monde_Indien #Monde_Indien #Géopolitique #Noria_Research #Géographie_Politique #Religions #Géographie_des_Religions #Conflits #Géographie_des_Conflits #Violences #Violences_en_Inde #Conflits_en_Inde #Géographie_de_la_Violence

Mapping the past - The Hindu

▻http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/mapping-the-past/article6725104.ece

Titled ’Cosmology to Cartography’, it is divided into three sections - Jain Cosmic, pilgrimage and cartography.

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The maps culled out from the 3000 maps that Prshant has, an early 18th century Japanese map depicting India as the centre of the world because of Buddhism, piligrimage maps of Shatrunjaya in Gujarat, Ganga, Vraj yatra, a Dutch map of the subcontinent and the first map of India, without any political divisions, showing it as a single entity.

The 18th century map of ganga, attributed to a Rajasthani artist, charts the river’s course from Alaknanda to Badrinath marking out some key shrines on it.

#cartographie #histoire

Gender: Barefoot technicians: the water-women of rural Gujarat
▻http://www.fao.org/gender/gender-home/gender-why/bite-sized-stories/barefoot-technicians-the-water-women-of-rural-gujarat/en

Mechanical faults in village hand pumps are all too common, as are leaks and other problems in rural pipelines. Repairs are often slow to arrive (if they arrive at all), and occasionally, government-employed or contracted repairmen may even submit false repair reports, claiming that the water supply has been repaired and is operating normally, when this is not the case.

For the women of Vata, a rural village in the Sabarkantha district of Gujarat, the problem was getting out of hand. In response, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a non-governmental organization of poor, self-employed women workers (many of whom are rural women farmers), began working with the state government to train women in Vata and other villages on hand pump maintenance and repair.

Water infrastructure and mechanical knowledge were typically considered to be male domains, and many of the men of the village were initially skeptical of the initiative. They doubted that the women would have the technical aptitude for the work. But over time, they were impressed to see that the women were indeed able to repair faulty pumps and keep them working well.

#eau #femmes #genre #entretien_et_réparation

INDE. Eclatante victoire du nationaliste hindou Modi - Le Nouvel Observateur
▻http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20140516.OBS7373/inde-le-nationaliste-hindou-modi-se-prepare-a-la-victoire-aux-l

Le parti du Congrès, au pouvoir depuis 10 ans, a reconnu sa défaite. Le « boucher du Gujarat » se prépare à devenir Premier ministre.

J’essaie de trouver une analyse un petit peu indépendante et consistante sur ce qu’on pourrait attendre, internationalement, de ce changement de pouvoir. Et je ne trouve rien. Et en lisant notre Presse, constituée de vrais journalistes, j’ai comme un doute de parvenir à autre chose qu’une lecture idéologique et manichéenne, au regard de notre expérience des derniers mois/années... ... ...

#H7N9 Inquiétude au Goujerat du fait des relations économiques avec la Chine.

Bird flu blues from China - The Times of India
▻http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Bird-flu-blues-from-China/articleshow/19470538.cms

AHMEDABAD: China’s bird flu crisis where H7N9 avian influenza that has claimed seven lives and infected 24 people till Tuesday has set the alarm bells ringing in Gujarat which is grappling with one of the worst swine flu epidemics since it first surfaced in 2009. Cause of concern is the busy two way traffic between Gujarat and China.

About 300 people, mostly businessmen, visit China from Gujarat every month with almost same number of Chinese nationals visiting the state in the same time frame.

Les précautions à prendre…

“Among other things, I have been asked to drink boiled water, take a paracetamol tablet to avoid increased body temperature, check body temperature once daily, wear mask, goggles, gloves and a cap and not visit wet markets of China where birds are sold. I have also been asked not to eat undercooked, frozen food or raw poultry or duck dishes. Since I am a vegetarian, food is not an issue but I intend to be careful about following the other advisory,” said Shah.