This reading list looks at the history of growing majoritarianism in India in the last three decades.
Off the Press
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Editorials
Is the proposed public offering of LIC’s stake anything more than a political stance?
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The implementation of reservations is constitutionally mandated and cannot be left to the state’s discretion.
Commentary
In order to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party’s agenda of communal polarisation, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, led by K Chandrasekhar Rao, articulated what it called “ Adhyatmik Hindutva.
Special Articles
The Indian economy has been suffering from a persistent fiscal deficit for the last four decades.
Columns
I have had a career that has spanned investment banking, public policy, and academia, in the early phase of my working life.
Book Reviews
Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India by Pradeep K Chhibber and Rahul Verma, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp xii + 320, ₹ 895.
Review Issues
Tracing the genealogy of the scientific claim that Indian lung capacity is deficient vis-à-vis the “European norm,” it is argued that the pathologisation of the Indian lung that once justified colonial-era segregation has made a troubling contemporary return, producing state imperceptibility of pollution-induced illness.
Special Issues
The potential of National Family Health Survey wealth index to contribute to the discourse on poverty and inequality in India is presented.
