Governments have sought to manage recruitment, introduced restriction on movements of certain categories of workers (such as unskilled women). Some of the HKH countries have criminalised irregular and undocumented migration. Nonetheless, protection mechanism in both origin and the destination countries rem...
26). Basu considers such ‘Brahmanical stewardship’ to be already present in the form of the VHP’s College of Holy Men: ‘It is this assembly of god-men—now imagined along the lines of an ecumenical council with papal infallibility—that must incarnate the revived authority of the Raj ...