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Owing to both internal (skewed production and export basket) and external (rising imports, growing competition) challenges, India’s share in global tea exports is gradually declining. In this context, brand building and stricter compliance with...
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The Indian public sphere has witnessed a gradual increase in discussions on caste among Muslims over the past two decades. It is important to understand the social structures of Indian Muslims in order to ascertain their political behaviour. Casteism among...
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Two back-to-back multilateral summits, the BRICS and G20, are rightly considered 2023’s very important meetings. Both these have successes, challenges and provide indicators on the state of current geopolitics.
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India has a long history of conservation, at both official and people’s levels. Areas were protected for their biodiversity as early as the third century BC in the times of emperor Ashok. There are also numerous examples of sacred land/waterscapes...
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This reading list explores the history, impact and implications of the Unlawful Activities (...
This paper evaluates the trends of fiscal devolution and the finances of the urban local bodies in Telangana. The functional devolution process and implementation procedures are incomplete despite...
The policies related to the use of nitrogen fertilisers since independence are reviewed using primary and secondary databases to derive the present status of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium...
An augmented gravity model and panel econometric methodologies are used to investigate what drives India’s outward foreign direct investment. Both economic and non-economic factors influence such...
On one hand the BJP defines SC, BC castes as Hindus, and on the other hy banning beef denies them their age-old food habits. If beef is banned it will he the beginning of the end of the country's...
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The assertion of autonomous dalit women's organisations in the 1990s threw up several crucial theoretical and political challenges, besides underlining the brahmanism of the feminist movement and the...
This paper examines the role of 'Hinduism' in the course of socio-historical development in the Indian subcontinent, how there has been a gradual process of construction of a 'Hindu', community and...
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Baburao Bagul’s short story, “Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti,” reveals how caste fundamentally perpetuates different kinds of theft.
Poonguzhali is sexualised and objectified by the characters of Ponniyin Selvan and the film-maker on account of her marginalised caste.
Traditional fisheries in the Gulf of Mannar have a 200-year-old history of being criminalised, based on a colonial framing of threats of conservation.
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