Warren Anderson, Keshub Mahindra, Rajiv Gandhi, the 2010 court, Satinath Sarangi and claimant groups.
The American executive became the English-language face. The convicted men were Indian employees a generation later.
Medical and campaign names hold the chronic file that neither settlement nor two-year sentences closed.
Chairman, Union Carbide Corporation
Arrested in India in December 1984, released on bond, returned to the United States and died in 2014 without standing Indian trial. Extradition failed. English memory treats him as the absent parent-company defendant.
Chairman, UCIL
The most prominent of the Indian accused convicted on 7 June 2010 of causing death by negligence. The two-year term, after the 1996 charge reduction, was widely called incommensurate with the scale.
Prime Minister of India
His government framed the 1985 claims Act and the first international litigation strategy. The Union’s role as sole claimant still structures who can settle.
Trial court in the criminal case
After more than two decades and a reduced charge, the 2010 court entered the first convictions of UCIL officials. Appeals and criticism followed at once.
Sambhavna Trust clinic
A long-running independent medical and documentation effort in Bhopal that English researchers use when official registries stop. Represents the chronic, not the night, file.
Survivors’ and campaign groups
From early relief committees to the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, these groups kept the site, the 2010 sentences and Dow’s successor status in public English and Hindi argument.
Named power left. Named employees were convicted late and lightly. Named clinics stayed.
Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.