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The spontaneous joy and enthusiasm among the Bodo people, notwithstanding the recent Bodo Peace Accord signed on 27 January 2020, needs to be interrogated in the context of “fractured identity” of Bodos and a perennial trend of “demographic...
The ASEAN–India Trade in Goods Agreement (also known as AITIGA), implemented in January 2010, is entering into its 11th year and the time is ripe to review and recast it in light of the new world order pulled open by the pandemic. This article...
As cities and regions around the world are getting incorporated into the globalisation and urbanisation processes, they simultaneously exhibit characteristics that are more diverse and complex due to the relations of their local and regional bases...
This article analyses the issue of extending minimum support price coverage to major food crops. Given the utility of public procurement and buffer stocks during the previous crises, MSP procurement may be continued for rice and wheat but a shift to...
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The letter titled “Plight of the Handloom Industry” by Ashish Kumar Meher (EPW, 23 July 2022) is important and timely.
At the beginning of the 19th century, craftspersons in England protested the introduction of machines fearing that their craftspersonship would become...
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In August 2020, after the Supreme Court of India delivered its verdict on the Ram Janmabhoomi case, a foundation-laying ceremony or a bhoomi pujan was organised for the Ram Mandir. This performative-cum-devotional gesture was perceived differently by different sections of the society. While...
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Those who urge the wholesale privatisation of public sector banks do not seem to have given adequate thought to the mechanics of bank privatisation in India. Given the present regulatory regime for private bank ownership in India, there are formidable...
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Legislative institutions in India have been increasingly experiencing a situation where a restive body language embodies the utterances delivered with a loud voice. The legislators’ body language no more manifests the argumentative competence of some of the members; on the...
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Nancy Pelosi’s visit highlights the contradictions of the United States’ arrangement with China over Taiwan.
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This reading list explores the history, impact and implications of the Unlawful Activities (...
The 1947 partition of British India on religious lines significantly impacted Hindustani classical...
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This paper focuses on the usage of accounts to avail various financial services under the financial inclusion drive by the Government of India. It examines the factors affecting the use of financial...
The relationship between the Gaud Saraswat Brahmins and the Portuguese state has not drawn much scholarly attention. This paper examines the transformation of the numerically marginal, yet most...
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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Post Script
Panchayat ’ s insightful portrayal of the quotidian aspects of rurality is marred by its unrealistic portrayal of caste in a Uttar Pradesh village.
Repeated invocations of “India” in the literary scape seemingly exclude India’s North East.
Mirch Masala’s invocation of M K Gandhi celebrates independence from an external colonial state while also manufacturing consent for the modernising initiatives undertaken by the postcolonial state.
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