This article focuses on the nature and dimensions of change in the lives and status of tribal women in Tripura. Rural tribal women stand marginalised in the growing modern economy of the state. Socio...
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The principles of environmentality are employed in this study to look at how law, science and policy can mould environmental subjectivities of people to conflicting ends. The study locates the...
An analysis of the issue of gender equality in the information technology industry in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram using the framework of Amartya Sen's capability approach indicates that the...
The rapidly expanding demand for land under India's neoliberal regime has been confronted with a relatively inelastic supply. Farmers and other landholders are unwilling to relinquish their means of...
During the 1970s, major policy debates on the role of mechanisation in agricultural and rural development in south Asia took place; by the early 1990s, such debates had largely faded. Yet today,...
Two mainstream Hindi films in 2008, Dostana and Straight, had a gay main plot which was quite unprecedented in Bollywood. Through a close analysis of the way these two films engage with homosexuality...
The rhetoric of "inclusive development" tends often to be lost in vague generalities, when it is not altogether absent in various processes on the ground or in state policy that claims to be inspired...
A precondition for the emergence of involuntary unemployment is the fact that substantial labour reserves already exist that make at least a segment of workers price-takers. Not only is "full...
This study focuses on the nature and characteristics of seasonal labour migration in the Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. It evaluates the forms/ types of migration and analyses the migrants...
This note suggests an optionpricing approach to tackle one problem in land acquisition.
The population living in urban slums grew more slowly than the overall urban population between 1991 and 2001, suggesting an exclusionary nature of urban growth. This was also revealed in the form of...
This article studies the service charges levied by banks on demand drafts. Though the Reserve Bank of India advocated a reasonable level of service charges for demand drafts as early as February 2007...
How did the Bahujan Samaj Party government in Uttar Pradesh fare in its first three years in office? An assessment of outlays and outcomes in the social sector: health, education, housing, employment...
Most ethnographies of resistance are found to be around the issues of ethnicity and indigeneity. This article attempts to interrogate this encounter by analysing two ethnographic works - In the Belly...
The recurring floods in Assam cause instability in agricultural production. To avoid crop losses due to frequent floods many farmers have adopted a risk-averse strategy by an appropriate combination...
