Caste endogamy serves as a key mechanism for sustaining caste hierarchies, conferring upper-caste women a high ritual purity status along with certain material benefits (Velaskar 2016). These ...

We need to genuinely devolve power to urban local bodies and financially empower them,  —NITI Aayog’s “Three Year Action Agenda 2017–18 to 2019–20: 59”Five finance commissions, beginning with the ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

Infants are widely recognised as the future citizens of any nation, embodying hope and potential. Yet, the unfortunate reality persists that one of the primary deficiencies within a country’s public ...

Credit growth should not run ahead of deposit growth by miles.The Indian banking sector witnes­sed an acceleration in credit, com­pared to deposits, in financial year (FY) 2023–24. The loan portfolio ...

Over the last few weeks, several instances of “mistaken deportation” of Indian citizens to Bangladesh have been reported and rightly caused an alarm. The pattern that seems to be emerging is arrests ...

In this context, Dalit memoirs have emerged as a powerful medium for self-assertion and the articulation of caste-based oppression, challenging Brahminical hegemony and amplifying silenced voices.

They are going to assassinate literature. Slowly, steadily, almost politely. With budget reports instead of guns and bullets, with Excel sheets instead of execution orders, with number gimmicks ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...