Palash Biswas On Unique Identity No1.mpg

Unique Identity No2

Please send the LINK to your Addresslist and send me every update, event, development,documents and FEEDBACK . just mail to palashbiswaskl@gmail.com

Website templates

Zia clarifies his timing of declaration of independence

What Mujib Said

Jyoti basu is DEAD

Jyoti Basu: The pragmatist

Dr.B.R. Ambedkar

Memories of Another Day

Memories of Another Day
While my Parents Pulin Babu and basanti Devi were living

"The Day India Burned"--A Documentary On Partition Part-1/9

Partition

Partition of India - refugees displaced by the partition

Monday, August 2, 2010

Economic and Political Weekly

   
Cover
July 31, 2010

[EDITORIALS]

Discrimination in the Conduct of Justice

Islamicist and Hindutva terrorists must be treated alike in the administration of justice.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Sharpening Tools to Strengthen Monetary Transmission

The central bank works to improve the transparency and transmission of monetary policy.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[COMMENTARY]

Babhli Water Conflict: Less Water, More Politics

 Biksham Gujja , K J Joy , Suhas Paranjape

Water sharing disputes between states are growing, the latest in the news being the conflict between Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh over the Babhli barrage  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[PERSPECTIVES]

Commercial Microfinance and Social Responsibility: A Critique

 Tara S Nair

Working within the logic of maximising investor returns, the strategic focus of Indian microfinance institutions seems to have shifted from serving the poor borrowers to chasing profits  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[INSIGHT]

Justice Denied to Tribals in the Hill Districts of Manipur

 Bela Bhatia

How should the district council elections that were held in Manipur in April 2010 be understood? What was the need to rush through the elections on an issue which had waited nearly 40 years for a fair resolution? By denying the legitimate demand of t  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[SPECIAL ARTICLES]

Land, Labour and Caste Politics in Rural Tamil Nadu in the 20th Century: Iruvelpattu (1916-2008)

 John Harriss , J Jeyaranjan , K Nagaraj

The "Slater" villages of Tamil Nadu that were first surveyed by the University of Madras economist, Gilbert Slater, and his students in 1916, were resurveyed in the 1930s, 1960s and the 1980s  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Mandi Traders and the Dabba: Online Commodity Futures Markets in India

 Richa Kumar

Through ethnographic interviews with soybean traders in a mandi or market yard in western Madhya Pradesh, this paper explores the intersection of the online commodity futures market created by the new technology with the physical market of commoditie  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[COMMENTARY]

A Comment on the Distribution Formula of the 13th Finance Commission

 Archana R Dholakia

Out of the four different criteria used by the Thirteenth Finance Commission for inter se devolution of taxes, the criteria of fiscal capacity and fiscal discipline, which are given a weightage of about two-thirds in the formula, are inadequate, inco  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Women in the Army

 Prem Chowdhry

The Indian army continues to define itself along gendered lines. There is a strong belief that combat, by nature, is a male occupation; that the army is a male space and combat the most masculine of all aspects of war  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Efficient Market Hypothesis: The Model That Failed

 K Subramanian

The assumption of the efficient market hypothesis is that the price of a financial asset reflects all available information that is relevant to its value. The players are rational and all information is available in the public domain  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Classes, States and the Politics of the Tamil Diaspora

 Ahilan Kadirgamar

The Tamil diaspora is not monolithic; it is differentiated by class, excludes certain castes and is gendered in its exploitation  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[REVIEW ARTICLE]

Trade (in Tasks) and Development

 Dev Nathan

Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research edited by Jennifer Bair (Stanford: Stanford University Press), 2009;  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[SPECIAL ARTICLES]

The Challenges before NABARD in the Midst of RBI's Sterilisation Policy

 Shouvik Chakraborty , Zico Dasgupta

Have huge inflows of speculative capital in the post-reform period affected the role of development institutions and banks like the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, the apex bank for institutional credit in rural India? In order t  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[DISCUSSION]

Why the Census Should Not Count Caste

 V K Natraj

A response to the article "The Politics of Not Counting Caste" (EPW, 19 June 2010) and the editorial "Why We Must Count Caste" (22 May) on caste in the 2011 Census, contesting the main arguments therein on the need to enumerate all castes during the  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Email ID
Password
 
 Remember Me
 Forgot Password?
 Want to Subscribe?

NEW EPW WEB SITE(BETA)

The EPW website has been redesigned with a number of new and interesting features.

The address of the beta is http://beta.epw.in/

The new version will remain in beta for a few weeks. We request readers to visit the beta site, share with us your experience and give us feedback. Some features are under construction/revision and will be completed over the next few weeks.

The existing site (http://epw.in) continues to be in operation.

Archives (1966-1998)New

Economic Weekly and EPW Issues from 1966 to 1998
View Issues >>.

advertisement
advertisement advertisement advertisement advertisement

Featured Themes

A selection of articles from EPW Archives relating to contemporary events and issues.

Khap Panchayats-Khap Panchayats are in the news again, largely because of the killings sanctioned by these illegitimate institutions. Here is a collection of articles published in the EPW over the past few years on Khaps.
Kashmir-Kashmir's on the boil again. The government's reaction is no different this time as well. Here are a few articles from the archives on Kashmir:

N-LIST

EPW now accessible to colleges covered under 12B/2F Section of UGC Act free-of-cost under N-LIST Programme along with 2,100 ejournals and 51,000 e-books.

Visit N-LIST

NOTE: To view pdf files, you need an Acrobat Reader. If required please downlo

No comments:

Post a Comment