While analysing the Dhanka's scheduled tribe status in Rajasthan, this anthropological account sheds light on the complications faced by the members of this backward community while they struggle to...
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Based on the story of Manisha, a homeless mentally-ill woman who met with an untimely end in a mental hospital, this article raises questions about the cultural practices of the scientific-medical...
Shadow banking has always played a part in India and China to meet credit needs not catered to by the formal banking sector. This article argues that financial liberalisation and deregulation have...
India's social security system, whose origin dates back to 1947, carries little for the workers in the informal sector. However, over the years, a large majority of the Indian workforce has joined...
The economic and living conditions of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe households have experienced changes during the phase of accelerated economic growth in the last decade based on 2001 and 2011...
The key houses of business, both old and new, found ways to maintain control over decision-making through the institutional structure of the family-run business house. This article attempts to point...
The inter-district inequality of per capita incomes in Maharashtra for the period 2001-09 is analysed here and it is found that inequality rose for the period 2001-05 and subsequently declined...
Vivek Chibber's critique (Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital) of the Subaltern Studies school deals largely with the early work of three authors - Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakrabarty and...
A socio-economic profi le of Muslims in Maharashtra commissioned by the Maharashtra State Minority Commission indicates dismal conditions on the social, economic and educational fronts as also poor...
By the early 2000s Muslims in Gujarat were far behind those in Andhra Pradesh in terms of indicators of community well-being, such as educational attainment, industrial employment and public sector...
In the militarised border regions of Rajouri and Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir), the boundaries are blurred. Violence had breached the security of people's homes, changing their lives forever. Despite...
Two decades have elapsed since the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act institutionalised panchayati raj as the mandatory third tier of governance in India. Yet due to a lack of extensive devolution of...
This article looks at the agendas and interests of the tribal people of Telangana region, who perceive that they have been continuously neglected and deprived of their legitimate rights and...
The web version of this article corrects a few errors that appeared in the print edition. With the completion of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, an appraisal of the mental health initiative in the space...
The National Land Records Modernisation Programme’s objectives cannot be understood in isolation from the broader policies of economic and governance reform. The shifts in the policy objectives of...
