ABVP | Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad |
ADM | Additional District Magistrate |
AFL-CIO | American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organisations |
AFP | Agence France-Presse |
AIADMK | All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
AICC | All-India Congress Committee |
AIR | All India Radio |
AIRF | All-India Railwaymens Federation |
AITUC | All-India Trade Union Congress |
BARC | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
BCSS | Bihar Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti |
BJP | Bharatiya Janata Party |
BKD | Bharatiya Kranti Dal |
BLD | Bharatiya Lok Dal |
BSF | Border Security Force |
CBI | Central Bureau of Investigation |
CEC | Central Election Committee |
CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
CFSA | Congress Forum for Socialist Action |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
CID | Criminal Investigation Department |
CISF | Central Industrial Security Force |
CITU | Centre of Indian Trade Unions |
COAS | Chief of Army Staff |
COFEPOSA | Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act |
CPB | Congress Parliamentary Board |
CPI | Communist Party of India |
CPI(M)/CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
CPP | Congress Parliamentary Party |
CPSU | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
CRPF | Central Reserve Police Force |
CWC | Congress Working Committee |
DAP | Delhi Armed Police |
DAVP | Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity |
DC | Democrazia Cristiana |
DCC | District Congress Committee |
DDA | Delhi Development Authority |
DIR | Defence of India Rules |
DISIR | Defence and Internal Security of India Rules |
DM | Deutsche Mark |
DMK | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
DSPE | Delhi Special Police Establishment |
DTC | Delhi Transport Corporation |
DUTA | Delhi University Teachers Association |
EPW | Economic and Political Weekly |
FCO | Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
FICCI | Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry |
FIR | First Information Report |
FISI | Friends of India Society International |
FRG | Federal Republic of Germany |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
GNP | Gross National Product |
GU | Gujarat University |
GVA | Gross Value Added |
HAL | Hindustan Aeronautics Limited |
HMS | Hind Mazdoor Sabha |
HMV | His Masters Voice |
HSS | Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh |
I&B | Information and Broadcasting |
IAS | Indian Administrative Service |
IB | Intelligence Bureau |
IBM | International Business Machines Corporation |
ICSSR | Indian Council of Social Science Research |
IDPL | Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited |
ILO | International Labour Organization |
IMF | International Monetary Fund |
INTUC | Indian National Trade Union Congress |
ITBP | Indo-Tibetan Border Police |
IUD | Intra-Uterine Device |
IUML | Indian Union Muslim League |
JI | Jamaat-i-Islami |
JNU | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
JP | Jayaprakash Narayan |
JUH | Jamiat-ul-Ulema-i-Hind |
KC | Kerala Congress |
KGB | Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnost |
KMLP | Kisan Mazdoor Lok Paksha |
LDP | Liberal Democratic Party of Japan |
LG | Lieutenant Governor |
LSE | London School of Economics |
LSS | Lok Sangharsh Samiti |
MCD | Municipal Corporation of Delhi |
MEA | Ministry of External Affairs |
MGR | Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran |
MHA | Ministry of Home Affairs |
MHAP | Ministry of Home Affairs Papers |
MISA | Maintenance of Internal Security Act |
MLA | Member of Legislative Assembly |
MLP | Madhu Limaye Papers |
MNC | Multinational Corporation |
MNF | Mizo National Front |
MP | Member of Parliament |
MRTPA | Monopolies and Restricted Trade Practices Act |
NBC | National Broadcasting Company |
NC | National Conference |
NDMC | New Delhi Municipal Corporation |
NDP | National Domestic Product |
NFIR | National Federation of Indian Railwaymen |
NMML | Nehru Memorial Museum and Library |
NRI | Non-Resident Indian |
NYT | New York Times |
OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
PA | Public Address |
PCC | Pradesh Congress Committee |
PIO | Principal Information Officer |
PMO | Prime Ministers Office |
PMS | Prime Ministers Secretariat |
PMSP | Prime Ministers Secretariat Papers |