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]

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