Ideas on the excercise of social interests and rights in the environment of today's global capitalism.

The withering sovereignity of the nation state, the strenghtening legal pluralism and the blending of laws is unusual in Western industrial countries, however it is quite familiar to the one-time colonies.

Can we speak about a unified Asia, as it was the practice within Euro-Americancapitalism for centuries? What role is given in the Asia discourse to the Indian subcontinent?

India joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2003 projects the deep crisis of the Indian agriculture. Food consumption indicators are falling in India for the first time in a long period, while the granaries are stuffed with grain. 

The study explores the map of violence of the Indian society – how the religious, communal and cast violence is combined with the repressive powers of patriarchal society. The author confutes that these would be ancient traditions.