Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:45:24 +0000
To: revs@csf.colorado.edu
From: wluml@mnet.fr (Harsh Kapoor)
Subject: Database on Religious Fundamentalism in India (S.ASIA)
8 July 1996, Monday.

Dear Dr.Alan Spector,

Some time back i picked up a posting on the Internet concerning
Racial-Religious-Ethno-Nationalist Violence Studies (REVS). Am quite
interested in the proposed effort to collect information around REVS.

I would like to draw your attention to a database I have infomally
developed over the last two years. This database file which was initially
developed as the 'Resources Against Communalism and Religious
Fundamentalism in India' is now being enlarged to cover other countries of
South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka). The database lists Books,
(also fiction), PhD. thesis, articles & papers (both from academic journals
and the press), Documentary Films and Fiction, Songs, and art exhibits etc.
It is now being developed under the title: Resources Against Communalism
and Religious Fundamentalism in South Asia.

A complete print out of the database is available in the paperback format
document published by the research and documentation unit of WLUML Network
(a non profit women's international solidarity network in the muslim
communities and countries) Their postal address is: WLUML, B.P. 23, 34790
Grabels, France.
An updated version of the database was re-printed in India by a citizens
group called SAHMAT, in New Delhi, India.

The database continues to informally grow and presently contains near 1000
items. The database has been developed on a popular databese program called
Filemake pro 3 available of Macintosh computers (exists also for PC's
running Windows 3.1) I would like to draw the attention of REVS list
members to the existence of this database.

I would like to request you and others REVS members for informal support to
continue to update this database. I would like to share this database with
REVS.  Suggestions and advice about possible institutions that might be
wiling to host this database on the net would be most welcome.

Should you be interested, I would be willing to post a copy of one of the
previously printed version(s) of this database.

Look forward to hearing from you


yours sincerely


Harsh Kapoor
(On behalf of the Research and Documentation Unit WLUML
B.P. 23, 34790 Grabels, France)

Harsh Kapoor

Research and Documentation Unit
WLUML Network:
International Coordination Office
B.P. 23, 34790 Grabels, France
Fax: (33) 6710 9167
e.mail:wluml@mnet.fr