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Sanjay Yadav, also known as Sanjay Singh Yadav, is an author and politician. Yadav is the founder and president of the Trumpist Party of India for Equality and Identity.[1]
Yadav has written The Environmental Crisis of Delhi,[2]The Invasion of Delhi,[3]Portraits of India,[4] and a work in Hindi, Dilli par Kabza.[5] He is an internationally acclaimed lyricist; he has been a semi-finalist in the United Kingdom Song Writing Contest for two successive years, 2013 and 2014.[6][failed verification][7][8][9]
Yadav has produced a documentary film, The Return of Raja Bhoj, in its Hindi version, Raja Bhoj Ki Wapsi.[10]
The writer founded the Trumpist Party of India for Equality and Identity on January 17, 2017, at an event widely covered by the international media.[12][13][14][15] The party seeks to build a collaborative partnership between the wealthy and the excluded castes through extensive rewards for both. It has drawn inspiration from the life of Donald Trump.[16][17]
Yadav was a speaker at the Delhi Literature Festival 2017.[18]
The ideas developed in Yadav's first book, The Invasion of Delhi, have been the subject of critical press comment.[21] The author argues that the people of the Delhi-Yamuna basin constitute the indigenous people of the union territory of Delhi, and their systematic exclusion from the city is fundamentally unfair. A population explosion caused by deliberately induced migration from far away is responsible for the environmental degradation of the entire middle Yamuna basin.[22] It has been the subject of extensive international reporting.[23] An international environment-related database, noting the relevance of the book to contemporary ecological issues, carries the biographical entry of the author of The Invasion of Delhi.[24] The Environmental Crisis of Delhi is Yadav's latest work. In this study, the author categorizes contemporary Delhi as an imperial city, similar to its Sultanate, Mogul, and British predecessors, when ethnic oligarchies with no local roots held sway. The singular objective of today's ruling oligarchies is the appropriation of the land of the middle Yamuna and its allocation to their kin from beyond the Delhi basin. This predatory design, argues Yadav, underlies the ecological threat confronting India's capital city. The Indian edition of the Wall Street Journal, one of the leading newspapers in the world, has also done an extensive report on the environment.[25]
Yadav's third work, Portraits of India, is a collection of poems. Extracts from this work received praise from Khushwant Singh, India's premier writer.[26][27][failed verification] Writing in one of his regular weekly columns, Singh remarked that the couplet of one of the poems "sycophancy is a practice in which modern-day India is very rich" was an accurate summation of the mental state of Indians and "deserved to be quoted".[28][29][30] Khushwant Singh's acclamation proved prophetic, and Yadav has begun to win international endorsement and recognition. He secured the rank of semi-finalist in the United Kingdom's Song Writing Contest 2013 for his submission, 'Never Love a Woman'.Following this success, two of India's premier newspapers, The Hindustan Times and the Hindu, did feature reports on Yadav.[31][7][8] His entry for the 2014 contest, 'To None Ever Bound', also secured a semi-final position.[32][9]
Yadav's foray into filmmaking has yielded two documentaries, The Return of Raja Bhoj, and its Hindi version, Raja Bhoj Ki Wapasi. These films develop themes first argued in his writings, i.e., issues of external hegemony and indigenous subjugation. The setting for the films is Bhopal and the context is a proposal to rename the city 'Bhojpal'. The filmmaker shows how the wealth of the city, indeed the entire state, is in the hands of people from far away. Therefore, the proposal to rename the city would be merely cosmetic, unless accompanied by steps to give the local populations a greater share in the wealth of the city and the state. Both, Yadav's writings and films, are informed by a passionate concern for subject indigenous populations held in bondage by imperial communities of outside provenance. It is wrong to see this interpretation as some sort of diatribe against migrants. Instead, these works should be seen as a depiction of India as a rigidly hierarchical quasi-imperial arrangement where small groups of people from the presidency towns of the Raj-era rule and dominate vast swathes of territory. This is what empires are about; and this is why, he implies, the vast majority of India's population lives in utter destitution. The challenge before India is the transition of this structure to a more democratic system of local control. Essentially, therefore, Yadav's work should be seen as a moving affirmation of the principles of democracy, freedom and liberty.
As a researcher Yadav was associated with Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. He wrote largely on South Asia, especially Afghanistan,[33][34] where he has travelled in difficult and dangerous conditions of war. One of his papers on Afghanistan has become a landmark. Although written nearly 25 years ago, it continues to be cited and commented upon by strategists from Israel, the United Kingdom and USA.[35][36][37][38][39][40] He contributed also to major Indian journals, The Illustrated Weekly of India[41] and The Hindu.[42] Additionally he wrote on the Indian Rebellion of 1857[43] and this work was the subject of a lecture he delivered at University of Oxford's South Asian Studies Centre at St Antony's College.[44] Yadav has also made other seminar presentations at University of Oxford. One of these was on the anti-Mandal riots of the 1990s[45] and another on inter-ethnic relations and hierarchies in Delhi.[46] The former has been praised and extensively quoted by former Harvard professor, senator and diplomat Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[47][48][49]
Bibliography
The Environmental Crisis of Delhi
The Invasion of Delhi
Portraits of India
Dilli par Kabza
Documentary films
The Return of Raja Bhoj
Raja Bhoj Ki Wapsi
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↑ Vertzberger, Yaacov Y.I. (1994). "The international milieu and foreign military intervention: When and how much does the milieu matter?". Journal of Strategic Studies. 17 (3): 139–179. doi:10.1080/01402399408437558. Written by an Israeli defence expert Yaacov Vertzberger, this paper is based largely on Yadav study.
↑ Article title Work of a US Naval College expert Donald Boone, it draws largely from Yadav's work.
↑ Yadav, Sanjay Singh (1989). "Failed great power war and the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan". Comparative Strategy. 8 (3): 353–368. doi:10.1080/01495938908402788. ISSN0149-5933.
↑ A Troubled Legacy, The Illustrated Weekly of India, 22–28 April 1990.
↑ Benazir Bhutto's Personality, The Hindu, 15 August 1989.
↑ Yadav, Sanjay (1994). "The Indian Mutiny of 1857: Why Britain Succeeded and the Rebels Failed". Journal of Asian History. 28 (2): 136–153. JSTOR41930953.
↑ The Mutiny: A Re-Interpretation of British Success, lecture delivered on 18 February 1992, Centre for Indian Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford; announced in Oxford University Gazette, Monday 13 January 1992, supplement (2) to number 4237.
↑ The Mandal Milestone, Contemporary South Asia Program, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, presentation made on 14 November 1991.
↑ The Ethnic Composition of Delhi, Contemporary South Asia Program, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, presentation made on 20 February 1992.
↑ The Mandal Milestone, Seminar presentation made at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford on 14 November 1991. Cited extensively in Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994; pp162-163, 202.
↑ This has also been translated into German and published by the European Migration Centre. See Migration in die Region Delhi: Die Aussichten auf Stabilitat im Herzen Indiens, Jahrbuch fur Vergleichende Sozialforschung 1992, Berlin: Edition Parabolis, 1994. Written version of a seminar given at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford on 20 February 1992.
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