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This article discusses India's peaceful revolutions which have occurred over the past two decades. The author argues the revolutions have affected society, economics, and the political system which have contributed to the strengthening of democracy and the ability of India to thrive in the future.

The problem of mapping the parallel bottom up execution of Datalog programs to an interconnected network of processors is studied. The parallelization is achieved by using hash functions that partition the set of instantiations for the rules. We first examine this problem in an environment where the number of processors and the interconnection topology is known, and communication between program segments residing at non-adjacent processors is not permitted. An algorithm is presented that decides whether a given Datalog program can be mapped onto such an architecture. We then relax the constraint on the architecture by allowing program segments residing at non-adjacent processors to communicate. A theory of approximate mappings is developed, and an algorithm to obtain the closest approximate mapping of a given Datalog program onto a given architecture is presented.

US foreign policy in the post-Cold War era needs to focus on South Asia as the region contains 1/4 of the world's population, is strategically located and conflict-prone. The US can play a significant role in promoting democracy and economic liberalization in South Asia. It can also help prevent nuclear proliferation in the region. South Asian countries, especially India and Pakistan, need to reconsider their foreign, economic and nuclear policies to effectively adapt to the changed international order.

The Politics of Extremism in South Asia by Deepa M. Ollapally. Cambridge, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2008. 256 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $35.99. Every conceivable form of ethno-religious extremism and [...]

Unlike many professional armies in the developing world the Indian Army has shown little or no interest in political involvement. During British colonial rule the officers and the men of the army were socialized into accepting the notion of political neutrality. Independent India's politicians, most notably Jawaharlal Nehru, carefully reinforced this tradition. In the past few decades several developments have threatened this Nehruvian legacy. Increasing ethnolonguistic violence coupled with the venality of local police forces have led to increasing reliance on the Army to maintain civil order. Its tactics and strategy are designed to fight organized forces not urban mobs or elusive civilian terrorists. More importantly, in an ethnically plural state like India, repeated use of the Army to quell communal violence threatens to politicize the Army. Inordinate reliance on the Army to maintain civil order may also help erode its long-standing tradition of political neutrality. When the Army begins to assume duties normally restricted to the civil bureaucracy the temptation to intervene in politics increases dramatically.