Do Indian states have the political will to make the return migrants feel at “home”?.
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Editorials
The government’s stimulus package, by prioritising foreign and private capital, undercuts the significance of self-reliance.
Do Indian states have the political will to make the return migrants feel at “home”?
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Commentary
The Indian economy, which was facing demand defi ciency and slowdown prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, plunged further with the lockdown.
Special Articles
Over the last two decades India has witnessed a rapid rise in the number of private universities.
Columns
The Supreme Court’s setting aside of the Andhra Pradesh government’s preference scheme for Scheduled Tribes in schools in Scheduled Areas shows up a world view which believes that Adivasis need to be pushed into the “mainstream” and compelled to abandon their “backward” culture.
Book Reviews
India’s Aged: Needs and Vulnerabilities edited by Udaya S Mishra and S Irudaya Rajan, Orient Blackswan, 2017; pp xiii + 254, ₹895 (hardcover).
Review Issues
The absence of a gender perspective in the labour laws and the absence of any labour rights perspective in the anti-trafficking frameworks are the twin flaws that are particularly detrimental to the interests of migrant women workers in India.
Special Issues
In the literature on global market integration, the strength of interdependence has been measured in different ways.
