Sanjay Singh Yadav

Sanjay Singh Yadav, also sometimes styled simply as Sanjay Yadav, is a writer. He is the author of The Environmental Crisis of Delhi,[1] The Invasion of Delhi,[2] Portraits of India[3] and a work in Hindi, Dilli par Kabza.[4] He is an internationally acclaimed lyricist – he has been a semi-finalist in the UK Song Writing Contest for two successive years, 2013 and 2014.[5][6][7][8][9]

He has produced a documentary film entitled The Return of Raja Bhoj – in its Hindi version, Raja Bhoj Ki Wapsi.[10] He has also been a contributor to various academic journals in different countries of the world.[11]

Education

Yadav’s education is spread over several different countries and several notable institutions. He attended Scindia School, an elite boarding school in Gwalior, and University of Cambridge. Clare Hall, a Cambridge college, elected him a life-member in 1991. He was also a fellow of Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.[12] Yadav holds a doctorate in international politics.[13]

Work

Yadav's work has been the subject of feature-reports in three principal newspapers of India, i.e. The Times of India, Hindustan Times and The Hindu.[14][15][16] The United States' leading daily The Wall Street Journal in its India e-edition, India RealTime, has also commented on him.[17]

The ideas developed in Yadav's first book,The Invasion of Delhi, have been the subject of critical press comment.[18] 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. [19] It has been the subject of extensive international reporting.[20][21] Yahoo News Canada,[22] Gulf News,[23] Minnesota Post (USA),[24] Topix news,[25] Immigration Concern (UK)[26] and LexisNexis.[27] An international environment-related database, noting the relevance of the book to contemporary ecological issues, carries a biographical entry of the author of The Invasion of Delhi.[28] The Environmental Crisis of Delhi is Yadav's latest work. In this study the author categorises 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 book.[29]

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.[30][31] 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".[32][33][34] Khushwant Singh's acclamation proved prophetic and Yadav has begun to win international endorsement and recognition. He secured the rank of a 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.[35][36][37] His entry for the 2014 contest, 'To None Ever Bound', also secured a semi-finals position.[38][39]

Yadav’s foray into film-making 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 a proposal to rename the city as 'Bhojpal'. The film-maker 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,[40][41] 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.[42][43][44][45][46][47][48] He contributed also to major Indian journals, The Illustrated Weekly of India[49] and The Hindu.[50] Additionally he wrote on the Indian Rebellion of 1857[51] 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.[52] Yadav has also made other seminar presentations at University of Oxford. One of these was on the anti-Mandal riots of the 1990s[53] and another on inter-ethnic relations and hierarchies in Delhi.[54] The former has been praised and extensively quoted by former Harvard professor, senator and diplomat Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[55][56][57]

Awards

Bibliography

Documentary films

References

  1. ↑ Sanjay Yadav, The Environmental Crisis of Delhi, Gurgaon: Worldwide Books, c2011, ISBN 978 81 88054 03 9
  2. ↑ http://www.allbookstores.com/book/9788188054008/The_Invasion_of_Delhi.html 2008: Worldwide Books, ISBN 81 88054 00 3
  3. ↑ http://www.flipkart.com/book/portrait-india-sanjay-yadav 2009: Worldwide Books, ISBN 81 88054 01 1
  4. ↑ http://www.hindibook.com/index.php?String=HB-30619&p=sr&Field=bookcode&Exactly=yes&Format=detail 2009: Worldwide Books, ISBN 978 81 88054 02 2
  5. ↑ http://www.songbay.co/songbay/blog/2015/05/08/songbay-artist-feature-sanjay-yadav-a-specialist-in-indian-music-and-lyrics/
  6. ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Faridabad-mans-song-makes-it-to-UK-song-writing-contest/articleshow/22140100.cms[]
  7. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/The-man-whose-song-won-UK-over/Article1-1110435.aspx
  8. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-new-song/article5052362.ece
  9. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/interview-with-sanjay-singh-yadav/article6771818.ece
  10. ↑ http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/a-raja-trailerthereturnofrajabhojwmv-video-aykU37JXedM-61846-4.html
  11. ↑ See references below.
  12. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8188054011
  13. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=sanjay+singh+yadav&qt=owc_search
  14. ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Faridabad-mans-song-makes-it-to-UK-song-writing-contest/articleshow/22140100.cms
  15. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/The-man-whose-song-won-UK-over/Article1-1110435.aspx
  16. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-new-song/article5052362.ece
  17. ↑ http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/delhi-journal-the-migrant-problem/
  18. ↑ http://64.74.118.150/blogs/mappings/archive/2008/11/14/outsiders-leave-delhi.aspx
  19. ↑ http://www.drugtodayonline.com/medical-news/city/3433-check-immigration-to-save-delhis-environment.html
  20. ↑ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/India-s-migrant-workers-face-hostility-in-Mumbai
  21. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100409/wl_csm/292528/
  22. ↑ http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/india-s-migrant-workers-face-hostility-mumbai.html?
  23. ↑ http://gulfnews.com/news/world/india/migrant-workers-face-hostility-in-mumbai-1.610560
  24. ↑ http://www.minnpost.com/worldcsm/2010/
  25. ↑ http://www.topix.net/content/csm/2010/04/indias-migrant-workers-face-hostility-in-mumbai
  26. ↑ http://www.immat.info/#other
  27. ↑ http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100038095&docId=l:1160566535&start=2
  28. ↑ http://www.carboncapturereport.org/cgi-bin/biodb?PROJID=9&mode=viewpersonname&name=sanjay_yadav
  29. ↑ http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/delhi-journal-the-migrant-problem/[]
  30. ↑ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040501/windows/above.htm
  31. ↑ Also quoted in Khushwant Singh's column With Malice Towards One and All in The Hindustan Times (New Delhi), 29 January 2005.
  32. ↑ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040501/asp/others/print.html retrieved 27 July 2007
  33. ↑ http://www.anureviews.com/portraits-of-india-by-sanjay-yadav/
  34. ↑ http://www.indianbookreviews.com/2012/representing-india-in-poems/
  35. ↑ http://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/2013-results.html
  36. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/The-man-whose-song-won-UK-over/Article1-1110435.aspx
  37. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-new-song/article5052362.ece
  38. ↑ http://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/2014-results.html
  39. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/interview-with-sanjay-singh-yadav/article6771818.ece
  40. ↑ http://www.afec33.asso.fr/ftp/revue/pdf/n25.pdf
  41. ↑ http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=sl&nid=5174
  42. ↑ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080?journalCode=fjss20#.UkJ4ueXy24E Written by an Israeli defence expert Yaacov Vertzberger, this paper is based largely on Yadav study.
  43. ↑ http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a328179.pdf Work of a US Naval College expert Donald Boone, it draws largely from Yadav's work.
  44. ↑ http://www.mpr.co.uk/scripts/sweb.dll/li_archive_item?method=GET&object=PDR_1990_XVI_11_MAY
  45. ↑ http://www.mpr.co.uk/scripts/sweb.dll/li_archive_item?method=GET&object=CST_1989_8_03
  46. ↑ http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a782385234
  47. ↑ http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/arag/document-listings/ca/06(29)AM.pdf
  48. ↑ http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA328179
  49. ↑ A Troubled Legacy, The Illustrated Weekly of India, 22–28 April 1990.
  50. ↑ Benazir Bhutto's Personality, The Hindu, 15 August 1989.
  51. ↑ http://www.indiana.edu/~jahist/jah.html
  52. ↑ 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.
  53. ↑ The Mandal Milestone, Contemporary South Asia Program, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, presentation made on 14 November 1991.
  54. ↑ The Ethnic Composition of Delhi, Contemporary South Asia Program, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, presentation made on 20 February 1992.
  55. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=fCtL0YTIjxEC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=patrick+moynihan+pandaemonium+sanjay+yadav&source=bl&ots=SRj2jeEP2v&sig=iZ7VfjfmyzuWIm6MildJJYoq9_U&hl=en&ei=GpXVS_TmAcTGrAeN94GJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
  56. ↑ 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.
  57. ↑ 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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