CHAPTER 20

1 This essay was published in The National Interest, and was published as a full book with the title The End of History and the Last Man by Free Press, New York, in 1992. This was a controversial thesis and raised a debate in intellectual circles.

2 This is also the suggestive title of a book authored by India’s prominent and world-renowned political scientist, Rajni Kothari.

3 See, for example, Yogesh Atal (ed.), Culture-Development Interface, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1991.

4 Meaning fluid organizations. He calls task force or project teams single-pulse organizations. A project team normally carries out a single task and it grows and declines and is then dismantled.

5 Today’s talk of an Information Technology (IT) Revolution or of a Knowledge Society are thus part of the post-industrial society that Bell had predicted in the 1970s.

6 He later became the President of India.

7 Core competence implies that ‘in certain areas we have some inherent strengths whereby we can show a much better output and better results in shorter time’.

8 It is calculated that if the annual rainfall all over India were evenly spread over the country, the water would exceed one meter in depth (see p. 51).

9 For use of the concepts of Insulators and Apertures, see Yogesh Atal, ‘Insulators and Apertures: Dynamics of Nation Building’, Building a Nation: Essays on India, New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1981.