Stop and ask, can depravity, brutality and injustice be justified by religion and politics?
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Editorials
The 15th Finance Commission’s Terms of Reference need moderation, or else states will lose fiscal powers.
Commentary
Drawing upon a study, this article examines whether the “final reports,” which is the official term for closed cases under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, are justified or not.
Special Articles
India’s urban landscape needs new city forms, alternative economic arrangements, and universal social welfare to survive in the coming era.
Columns
The United States (US) is sinking.
Book Reviews
Subaltern Movements in India: Gendered Geographies of Struggle against Neoliberal Development by Manisha Desai; London and New York: Routledge, 2016; pp xxiii + 152, price not indicated .
Review Issues
The partition of British India precipitated a set of instruments of governance that shaped occupations, land-use patterns, and forms of citizenship in urban hinterlands.
Special Issues
While there has been a tremendous increase in the number of bank accounts opened, the data show that the average balance in these accounts is low and a significant proportion of the accounts are inoperative.