This reading list looks at the history of growing majoritarianism in India in the last three decades.
Off the Press
EPW's Translation Project
Editorials
Doctors need to go beyond demanding security to address violence against healthcare workers.
Abeyance of the Essential Commodities Act is easier said than done.
Commentary
The Bharatiya Janata Party garnered sweeping electoral gains in the North East in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
Special Articles
The structure of India’s intra-industry trade, more specifically, decomposition of IIT into horizontal and vertical trade is analysed using support vector machines as the existing approaches to disentangle IIT into horizontal and vertical trade suffer from some limitations.
Columns
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 aims to ensure inclusive education by requiring private educational institutions to admit students of economically weaker sections as part of the fundamental right to education.
Book Reviews
Labour and Development: Essays in Honour of Professor T S Papola edited by K P Kannan, Rajendra P Mamgain and Preet Rustagi, New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2007 ; pp 722, ₹ 1,495 (hardcover).
Review Issues
The rise of web-based social spaces has expanded the political sphere beyond the boundaries of the nation state, while also disseminating and shaping religious ideologies.
Special Issues
Using district-level data, the effect of financial literacy centres on financial inclusion in India is investigated.
