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No Pages No Pages No Pages January 7-13 1 1-80 May 27-June 2 October 7-13 40 4225-4296 January 14-20 (FII Flows (Review of Labour) 21 2041-2168 October 14-20 41 4301-4384 and Capital Markets) 2 81-168 June 3-9 October 21-27 (Review of January 21-27 (Partition: Many Meanings) 22 2173-2268 Women’s Studies) 42 4389-4516 (Review of Science Studies) 3 169-288 June 10-16 23 2273-2392 November 4-10 (Fiscal January 28-February 3 4 289-368 June 17-23 (Reservations Responsibility: A Reappraisal) 43,44 4521-4624 February 4-10 5 369-448 in Higher Education) 24 2397-2500 November 11-17 45 4629-4704 February 11-17 6 449-528 June 24-29 25 2505-2684 November 18-24 February 18-24 June 30-July 7 (Fakir Mohan Senapati and (Tribals and Projects (Review of Agriculture) 26 2689-2944 Colonial Indian Society) 46 4709-4828 in Orissa), (Water Conflicts July 8-14/15-21 (Overhauling November 25-December 1 47 4833-4920 in ) 7 533-660 Watershed Programme) 27,28 2949-3124 December 2-8 (Aspects of February 25-March 3 July 22-28 Centre-State Relations) 48 4925-5012 (Brazil: Lula’s Mixed (Maoist Movement in India) 29 3129-3256 December 9-15 49 5017-5088 Record in Office) 8 665-760 July 29-August 4 30 3261-3332 December 16-22 March 4-10 9 765-836 August 5-11 (’s Employment March 11-17 10 841-928 (Marketing Handlooms) 31 3337-3440 Guarantee Scheme) 50 5093-5196 March 18-24 (Money, August 12-18 (Social December 23-29 51 5201-5284 Banking and Finance) 11 933-1140 Security for Unorganised December 30-January 5 March 25-31 12 1145-1216 Workers) 32 3445-3544 (Review of Agriculture) 52 5289-5416 April 1-7 13 1221-1292 August 19-25 33 3549-3620 Ed = Editorial April 8-14 August 26-September 1 F = Features (Budget 2006) 14 1297-1396 (Integrated Child CL = Civil Liberties April 15-21 15 1401-1484 Development Services) 34 3625-3736 C = Commentary April 22-28 September 2-8 35 3741-3820 P = Perspective (Suicides by Farmers) 16 1489-1592 September 9-15 36 3825-3904 BR = Book Review April 29-May 5 (Review September 16-22 37 3909-3988 MMR = Money Market Review of Women’s Studies) 17 1597-1724 September 23-29 SA = Special Article May 6-12 18 1729-1816 (Measurement of Disability) 38 3993-4088 D = Discussion May 13-19 (Capital Account September 30-October 6 CS = Current Statistics Convertibility: A Debate) 19 1821-1928 (Review of Industry and SS = Special Statistics May 20-26 20 1933-2036 Management) 39 4093-4220 LE = Letter to Editor

ACCIDENTAL DEATHS Ideals vs Realities: Limitations of Failure of WTO Geneva Mini-Ministerial: Death by Mining (Ed) 3911 Governance; Samit Kar (C) 4322 New Deadline and Challenges; ACCIDENTS Is the Institution of District Magistrate Martin Khor (C) 3143 Death by Mining (Ed) 3911 Still Necessary? D Bandyopadhyay Impasse at the WTO: A Development From 50 Years Ago (December 1, 1956): (C) 4851 Perspective; Martin Khor (F) 4659 Railway Minister Bows Out (Ed) 4929 AFGHANISTAN Sustaining Agricultural Trade: Policy Urban Migrant Labour: Shattered Lives, State Responses to Displacement; and Impact; Dhanmanjiri Sathe Neglected Laws (Ed) 4712 Jayant Sriram (BR) 39 and R S Deshpande (SA) 5337 ACCOUNTANCY AFRICA AGRICULTURAL CREDIT Public Spending, Outcomes and Account­ Is India Ripe for Integrated Water Agricultural Credit in India: Status, Issues ability: Citizen Report Card as a Catalyst Resources Management? Fitting and Future Agenda; Rakesh Mohan for Public Action; Samuel Paul (SA) 333 Water Policy to National Development (SA) 1013 ADIVASIS Context; Tushaar Shah and Blurring of Development Goals in Chhattisgarh Physiognomy of Violence; Barbara van Koppen (SA) 3413 Refinancing; EPW Research Foundation K Balagopal (C) 2183 AGRARIAN RELATIONS (MMR) 1154 Endemic to Development: Police Killings Madhya Pradesh Socio-economic Base Cooperatives Recipe for Revival (Ed) 668 in Kalinga Nagar; Ranjana Padhi and of Political Dynamics; Rahul Banerjee Credit, Indebtedness and Farmer Suicides in Nagraj Adve (C) 186 (D) 78 Punjab: Some Missing Links; Kerala’s Plachimada Struggle: A Narrative Nature of Peasant Nationalism; Sukhpal Singh (D) 3330 on Water and Governance Rights; Anand Chakravarti (RA) 3302 Curtailing Capability of NABARD; C R Bijoy (F) 4332 A Visit to Two ‘Flaming Fields’ of Bihar; EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 4396 Nature of Opposition to the Polavaram D Bandyopadhyay (C) 5302 Exuberance in Financial Markets: Project; Palla Trinadha Rao (F) 1437 West Bengal: Land Acquisition and Towards What End? EPW Research Open Letters to Government and Peasant Resistance at Singur; Foundation (MMR) 5208 Maoists (C) 2977 Parthasarathi Banerjee (C) 4718 Financial Inclusion: Issues and Redeeming the Silence; Rudolf C Heredia AGRIBUSINESS Challenges; S Mahendra Dev (F) 4310 (BR) 4437 Contract Farming through Agribusiness Human Resource Issues at Regional ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS Firms and State Corporation: A Case Rural Banks; Dinkar Rao (C) 954 Administrative Reforms Commission and Study in Punjab; Pramod Kumar Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and Right to Information; Shekhar Singh (C) 4110 (SA) 5367 Suicides in Punjab; P Satish (SA) 2754

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Investment Credit to Agriculture; Land Struggle in Singur; Agrarian Crisis Looking beyond the Debt Bhupat M Desai (C) 693 Arup Kumar Sen (LE) 3994 Trap; S Galab and V Ratna Reddy (C) 1838 Microcredit Wins Nobel: A Stocktaking; Lease Farming in Kerala: Findings from Analysis of Farmer Suicides in Kerala; K Kalpana (C) 5110 Micro Level Studies; K N Nair and S Mohana Kumar and R K Sharma (F) 1553 Productivity Growth in Regional Rural Vineetha Menon (SA) 2732 Broadening the Scope of Watershed Banks; A Amarender Reddy (F) 1079 Peasant Hares and Capitalist Hounds of Development; Deepa Joshi (F) 2987 A Review of Bank Lending to Priority Singur; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5296 Bt Cotton in India: Sustainable Pest and Retail Sectors; Mohua Roy (SA) 1035 West Bengal: Land Acquisition and Management? Kavitha Kuruganti and Reviving Cooperative Credit Institutions: Peasant Resistance at Singur; G V Ramanjaneyulu (C) 561 Implementation Issues; M S Sriram (C) 298 Parthasarathi Banerjee (C) 4718 Centrality of Agriculture to India’s Warehouse Financing Short on Logic and Women’s Protests in Singur; Economic Development; N A Mujumdar Long on Imagination; Madhoo Pavaskar Members Khonj Ekhon Porishod (LE) 5290 (P) 31 (C) 1754 AGRICULTURAL MARKETING Credit, Indebtedness and Farmer Suicides AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Contract Farming through Agribusiness in Punjab: Some Missing Links; At the Threshold of 10 Per Cent Economic Firms and State Corporation: A Case Sukhpal Singh (D) 3330 Growth? Parthasarathi Shome (C) 943 Study in Punjab; Pramod Kumar (SA) 5367 A Critique of the Approach Paper to Eleventh Beyond ‘Crises’: Rethinking Contemporary Futures and Prices; Madhoo Pavaskar Plan; Amiya Kumar Bagchi; Debdas Punjab Agriculture; Surinder S Jodhka (LE) 3826 Banerjee and Achin Chakraborty (C) 3346 (F) 1530 AGRICULTURAL POLICY Dimensions of Agrarian Distress in Centrality of Agriculture to India’s Economic Half-hearted Attention to Agriculture; Andhra Pradesh; P Narasimha Rao Development; N A Mujumdar (P) 31 S Mahendra Dev (C) 1327 and K C Suri (F) 1546 The Economy: Changing Tracks; Status of Agriculture in India: Trends and Distributional Inequities and Resource Use Rajiv Jha (C) 5109 Prospects; Archana S Mathur; Surajit Das Behaviour: Political Economy of From the PM, for the Drylands (Ed) 83 and Subhalakshmi Sircar (SA) 5327 ‘Ecological Divide’ in ; Gujarat Quiet Transfer of Commons; AGRICULTURAL PRICES Tarique Niazi (SA) 4273 Vinay Mahajan and Charul Bharwada Futures and Prices; Madhoo Pavaskar Diversification towards High Value (C) 313 (LE) 3826 Agriculture: Role of Urbanisation and Half-hearted Attention to Agriculture; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION Infrastructure; P K Joshi; P Parthasarathy S Mahendra Dev (C) 1327 Cross-Validation of Production and Rao and P S Birthal (SA) 2747 Roots of Agrarian Crisis in Interwar India: Consumption Data of Fruits and Domestic Terms of Trade in a Three-Sector Retrieving a Narrative; Tirthankar Roy Vegetables; Jatinder S Bedi (SA) 5345 Framework: Analysis for All-India and (SA) 5389 Globalisation and War in Ivory Coast; States; Surajit Deb (SA) 1713 Theory and Practice of Agricultural Peter Custers (C) 1844 Drought, Agricultural Risk and Rural Indicators; Nilabja Ghosh (BR) 3703 The Indian Monsoon, GDP and Income: Case of a Water Limiting Rice Who Are the ‘Community’? The World Agriculture; Sulochana Gadgil and Production Environment, Tamil Nadu; Bank and Agrarian Power in Bihar; Siddhartha Gadgil (SA) 4887 K N Selvaraj and C Ramasamy (SA) 2739 Kalpana Wilson (C) 23 Status of Agriculture in India: Trends Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public AGRICULTURAL INCOME and Prospects; Archana S Mathur; Policy: Evidence, Diagnosis and Drought, Agricultural Risk and Rural Surajit Das and Subhalakshmi Sircar Alternatives from Punjab; Anita Gill and Income: Case of a Water Limiting Rice (SA) 5327 Lakhwinder Singh (SA) 2762 Production Environment, Tamil Nadu; Trends in Agriculture Production; Farmers’ Suicides in Maharashtra; K N Selvaraj and C Ramasamy (SA) 2739 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 1151 Srijit Mishra (F) 1538 State of India’s Farmers; Trends in Agriculture Production; Gujarat Quiet Transfer of Commons; Vinay A Narayanamoorthy (C) 471 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 2511 Mahajan and Charul Bharwada (C) 313 AGRICULTURAL LABOUR Value of Output from Agriculture and Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and Food Security, Agrarian Crisis and Rural Livestock; EPW Research Foundation Suicides in Punjab; P Satish (SA) 2754 Livelihoods: Implications for Women; (CS) 3343 Issues in Restructuring; Amita Shah; Maithreyi Krishnaraj (SA) 5376 Warehouse Financing Short on Logic and Sharachchandra Lele; Shrinivas Badiger; Rural Wages during the 1990s: Long on Imagination; Madhoo Pavaskar K J Joy and Subhash Paranjape (F) 2994 A Re-estimation; Ravi Srivastava and (C) 1754 Measuring the Marginal Value of Water and Richa Singh (SA) 4053 AGRICULTURAL REFORMS Elasticity of Demand for Water in Trends in Agricultural Wages in India: Rural Sector under the Lula Government; Agriculture; E Somanathan and 1964-65 to 1999-2000; Pallavi Chavan Albuquerque Maria Beatriz de David R Ravindranath (SA) 2712 and Rajshree Bedamatta (SA) 4041 and Paula de Andrade Rollo (F) 683 Need to Flesh Out Proposals; AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Ashesh Ambasta (F) 2991 ‘Rent a State’ Economics; AM (LE) 766 Demystifying the Myth of Shifting Political Economy of Agrarian Distress; Evaluation of Computerisation of Land Cultivation: Agronomy in the K C Suri (F) 1523 Records in Karnataka: A Study from North-East; Debojyoti Das (SA) 4912 Political Economy of the Electricity Subsidy: Gulbarga District; A P Singh and Half-hearted Attention to Agriculture; Evidence from Punjab; Varinder Jain Manoj Ahuja (SA) 69 S Mahendra Dev (C) 1327 (SA) 4072 Government, Industry and Farmland; Indo-US Knowledge Initiative: Need for Political Economy of West Bengal: Satya Sivaraman; Ravindra Garia; Public Debate; Rajeswari S Raina (C) 1622 A Puzzle and a Hypothesis; Kapil Sharma; Radhika Menon and AGRICULTURAL SECTOR Abhirup Sarkar (SA) 341 Azim Sherwani (LE) 3446 ‘Jalayagnam’ and Bridging Regional A Rejoinder to ‘Rent-a-Womb Economics’; Integrated Land and Water Use: A Case Disparities: Irrigation Development Suhas Chattopadhyay (D) 526 Study of Punjab; A S Bhullar and and Distribution in Andhra Pradesh; Restructuring Watershed Development R S Sidhu (SA) 5353 V Ratna Reddy (SA) 4613 Programmes; A Vaidyanathan (F) 2984

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Rural Sector under the Lula Government; HIV/AIDS and Orphans; Avanjali Sathpathy Fishing in Federal Waters; Albuquerque Maria Beatriz de David and (LE) 3626 Nagesh Prabhu (C) 3467 Paula de Andrade Rollo (F) 683 HIV/AIDS: Spreading Scourge (Ed) 3132 Killer Gangs in AP; Jeevan Kumar and Suicide Mortality Rates across States Medical Care for HIV: An Opportunity or K Balagopal (LE) 666 of India, 1975-2001: A Statistical Note; Crisis? K Ajithkumar and Mangalagiri: Case Study of Master Weavers; Srijit Mishra (F) 1566 S Irudayarajan (C) 1428 B Syamasundari and Seemanthini Trends in Agriculture Production; Meeting the AIDS Challenge; Niranjana (F) 3377 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 1151 Suneetha Kadiyala (BR) 1187 Maoist Movement in Andhra Pradesh; Trends in Agriculture Production; AIR POLLUTION K Balagopal (F) 3183 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 2511 Who Changed Delhi’s Air? Urvashi Narain Measuring the Marginal Value of Water and Trends in Number and Employment of and Ruth Greenspan Bell (SA) 1584 Elasticity of Demand for Water in Agricultural (Excluding Crop Production AIR TRANSPORT Agriculture; E Somanathan and and Plantation) and Non-Agricultural Liquid Bomb Hoax: Larger Implications; R Ravindranath (SA) 2712 Enterprises 1980 to 2005; EPW James Petras (C) 3850 Microfinance Institutions in Andhra Pradesh: Research Foundation (CS) 2695 Urban Transport in Mumbai: Two Choices Crisis and Diagnosis; H S Shylendra Tyranny of Distance: State of Economy of for the Future; Sudhir P Badami (C) 4724 (C) 1959 Lakshadweep; P D Jeromi (C) 3291 AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY Nature of Opposition to the Polavaram Who Are the ‘Community’? The World Bank Jet Airways’ Acquisition Anti-Competitive Project; Palla Trinadha Rao (F) 1437 and Agrarian Power in Bihar; Behaviour? (Ed) 292 Politics of Pro-poor Reforming the Health Kalpana Wilson (C) 23 AIRPORTS Sector: Primary Healthcare in Tribal Why Do Farmers Commit Suicide? Airport Privatisation Case: Public Law and Areas of Visakhapatnam; M Gopinath The Case of Andhra Pradesh; Public Sector Reform; Sudhir Reddy; K Jayalakshmi and V Sridhar (F) 1559 Krishnaswamy (C) 4239 Anne-Marie Goetz (SA) 419 WTO’s Conference: Towards Urban Multi-Airport Systems; Primary Education: Debating Quality and An Appraisal; Muchkund Dubey (C) 15 Philip S Thomas (C) 4326 Quantity; Manabi Majumdar (C) 785 AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDY Untangling the Airport Mess (Ed) 171 Riddle of Population Growth: Deceleration in Political Economy of the Electricity Subsidy: AKALI DAL Andhra Pradesh during 1991-2001; Evidence from Punjab; Varinder Jain Electoral Politics in Post-Conflict Societies: Sanjay Kumar and N K Sharma (SA) 4507 (SA) 4072 Case of Punjab; Praveen Priyadarshi and Tribal Land Alienation in Andhra Pradesh: Status of Agriculture in India: Trends and Neera Chandhoke (SA) 811 Processes, Impacts and Policy Concerns; Prospects; Archana S Mathur; Surajit Das ALLOPATHY S Laxman Rao; Priya Deshingkar and and Subhalakshmi Sircar (SA) 5327 Systems of Medicine: Issues and Responses John Farrington (SA) 5401 AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY in Bombay Presidency; Mridula Ramanna Water Quality Pollution through Aqua Agrarian Crisis Looking beyond the Debt (SA) 3221 Culture: Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary; Trap; S Galab and V Ratna Reddy (C) 1838 AMBEDKAR, B R J Rama Rao; Jasveen Jairath and Demystifying the Myth of Shifting From 50 Years Ago (December 8, 1956): P Umesh (F) 585 Cultivation: Agronomy in the North-East; Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Ed) 5021 Why Do Farmers Commit Suicide? The Case Debojyoti Das (SA) 4912 The Mad Violence; GPD (F) 5030 of Andhra Pradesh; V Sridhar (F) 1559 GM Crops in India: Is the Government’s The Time of the Dalit Conversion; ANTHROPOLOGY Policy Stance Justified? Kasturi Das Gyanendra Pandey (SA) 1779 Anthropology Curriculum and Its (D) 834 ANDHRA PRADESH Discontents; M Suresh and Institutions, Technology and Water Control; ‘Jalayagnam’ and Bridging Regional K T Rammohan (BR) 128 Jasveen Jairath (BR) 2305 Disparities: Irrigation Development Dumont Revisited; Pauline Kolenda (BR) 4961 AGRICULTURAL WAGES and Distribution in Andhra Pradesh; In the Margins of the State; Rahul Rural Wages during the 1990s: V Ratna Reddy (SA) 4613 Mukhopadhyay (BR) 3510 A Re-estimation; Ravi Srivastava The Adivasi, the State and the Naxalite: People of India and Indian Anthropology: and Richa Singh (SA) 4053 Case of Andhra Pradesh; E A S Sarma K S Singh: A Tribute; N K Das (C) 3156 Trends in Agricultural Wages in India: (F) 1434 Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest 1964-65 to 1999-2000; Pallavi Chavan Andhra Pradesh: Institutional Apathy Rights) Bill: A View from Anthropology and Rajshree Bedamatta (SA) 4041 towards Undertrial Prisoners; and Call for Dialogue; Arnab Sen and AHMEDABAD K Murali (C) 3936 Esther Lalhrietpui (SA) 4205 ‘Sisters under the Skin’: Events of 2002 and Angara and Koyyalagudem: Marketing in APARTHEID Girls’ Education in Ahmedabad; Handloom Cooperatives; P Dharmaraju A Death, Barely Noticed; M S Prabhakara Suchitra Sheth and Haeems Nina (SA) 1708 (F) 3385 (C) 4733 Representation and Development in Urban DAMA: Innovative Marketing; AQUACULTURE Peripheries: Reflections on Governance Anisa Puri (F) 3380 Peri-Urban Agriculture and Aquaculture; in Ahmedabad Suburbs; Indrajit Roy Dams and Displacement Major Loss, Rahul Gupta and Sumita Gupta (SA) 4363 Minor Gain: Polavaram Project in AP; Gangopadhyay (C) 1757 AIADMK R V Rama Mohan (F) 604 Water Quality Pollution through Aqua Tamil Nadu: More Stars than Ever; Development through Dismemberment of Culture: Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary; Rajan Krishnan (C) 2414 the Weak: Threat of Polavaram Project; J Rama Rao; Jasveen Jairath and Tamil Nadu: New Times Ahead; N Subba Reddy (F) 1430 P Umesh (F) 585 M S S Pandian (C) 2181 Dimensions of Agrarian Distress in ARGENTINA AIDS Andhra Pradesh; P Narasimha Rao and Currency Sovereignty and Policy Access to Healthcare for All: What Can We K C Suri (F) 1546 Independence: Argentina after Learn from the AIDS Movement? Environment Protection: Role of Regulatory Abandoning the Currency Board; Anand Zachariah (C) 2522 System in India; P M Prasad (SA) 1278 L Randall Wray (F) 1857

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Lessons from Argentina’s Employment ‘Home-Grown’ Democracy; Nature of the Zionist Beast: Lebanon, Guarantee; L Randall Wray (C) 2293 Moazzem Hossain (C) 791 Palestine and Israel’s Scorched Earth ARID REGIONS AGRICULTURE Borders, Migration and Sub-Regional Policy; Gabriela Becker (C) 3653 From the PM, for the Drylands (Ed) 83 Cooperation in Eastern South Asia; Palestine: ‘Homecoming’ of Hamas; ARMAMENTS Mayumi Murayama (SA) 1351 S S Tabraz (C) 566 The Bofors Story Subversion of Investigation Bugti and the Baloch Cause; West Asia Challenge of Hamas (Ed) 372 (Ed) 372 Haris Gazdar (F) 4100 West Asia: News of a Kidnapping (Ed) 2952 ARMED FORCES Child Malnutrition and Gender ASSAM Collating Information, or ‘Communalising’ Discrimination in South Asia; Assam ‘Talking about Talks’; the Army? Gautam Navlakha (C) 687 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 912 M S Prabhakara (C) 777 Counting Religion (Ed) 535 Democracy Contained; Saroj Giri (C) 1752 Assam Identity as Strategy (Ed) 1492 A Force Stretched and Stressed; Economic Growth in South Asia: Promising, Assam New Equations and Uneasy Alliances; Gautam Navlakha (C) 4722 Unequalising, Sustainable? Shantayanan Udayon Misra (C) 2291 Manipur: Mockery of Law (Ed) 4392 Devarajan and Ijaz Nabi (P) 3573 Assam Terror and Talks (Ed) 2508 Northern Ireland Six Women and Indo-US Nuclear Accord Implications for A Century of Class Struggle; the IRA; Sajal Nag (C) 699 Peace and Security in South Asia; Hiren Gohain (BR) 3203 Terrorism in the North-East: Linkages T Jayaraman (C) 1167 Contending Water Uses Bridge over the and Implications; Archana Upadhyay IRLP or the Ecological Approach to Rivers? Brahmaputra; Chandan Mahanta and (SA) 4993 Nazrul Islam (F) 1693 Anjana Mahanta (F) 579 Thai Coup in Hot Soup; Satya Sagar (C) 4544 The Making of US Foreign Policy for South Corporate Greed and People’s Livelihood; Torture and War on Terror; Itty Abraham Asia: Offshore Balancing in Historical Hiren Gohain (LE) 4926 (F) 4102 Perspective; Lioyd I Rudolph and Susanne Governance as Theatre; Hiren Gohain Why Blame the Military? S Akbar Zaidi Hoeber Rudolph (P) 703 (C) 4109 (F) 4642 Hope Again (Ed) 1225 Land Question in Assam; H Gohain (LE) 3820 ART AND ARCHITECTURE Nepal: A People in Transition; Gautam Land Question in Assam: A Short Note; A Heretic in Indian Art; Arup Kumar Sen Navlakha and Anand Swaroop Verma Hiren Gohain (C) 3459 (LE) 5018 (C) 3470 Rethinking India’s Counter-insurgency ARTISANS Political Transition in Bhutan; Campaign in North-East; Sanjay Barbora Handicrafts: In Need of Invigoration Mathew Joseph C (C) 1311 (SA) 3805 (Ed) 3912 Predicament of Political Change; ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS ARTISTS Jayadeva Uyangoda (C) 1496 Television in Tamil Nadu Politics; Maya ‘Moving beyond Themselves’: Women in The Refugee’s World; Ranabir Samaddar Ranganathan (C) 4947 Hindustani Parsi Theatre and (BR) 4038 ASTRONOMY Early Films; Mrinal Pande (SA) 1646 SAFTA: Myth of Free Trade; Dushni Science: Once There Were Nine (Ed) 3744 The Chaudhuris of Bharenga; AM (C) 4653 Weerakoon and Jayanthi Thennakoon A Transnarrative for the Colony: Astronomy Faith and the Musician: Ustads in Modern (C) 3920 Education and Religion in 19th Century India; Lakshmi Subramanian (C) 4648 South Asia Needs a Bomb-Less Deal; India; Rajive Tiwari (SA) 1269 Rajkumar and Kannada Nationalism; Pervez Hoodbhoy (C) 1410 AUDITING K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 1834 State Responses to Displacement; Audit Reports on Disinvestment; ARYA SAMAJ Jayant Sriram (BR) 39 B P Mathur (F) 5114 RSS and Sindhi Hindus; Rita Kothari (D) 5414 Two Nations and a Dead Body: Mortuarial AUSTRALIA RSS in Sindh: 1942-48; Rita Kothari (SA) 3007 Rites and Post-Colonial Modes of Fringe Benefits Tax: Lessons from Australia The Untold Betrayal of Sindhi Hindus; Nation-Making in South Asia; Sajal Nag and New Zealand; Rajalaxmi Kamath Anand Chandavarkar (D) 4918 (SA) 5183 (C) 115 ASEAN Understanding Masculinities; AYODHYA ISSUE Negotiations Adrift (Ed) 2043 Kusum Gopal (BR) 807 Ayodhya and India’s Mahabharat: ASIA Why Blame the Military? S Akbar Zaidi Constitutional Issues and Proprieties; Asian Tsunami: Measuring Relief (Ed) 5292 (F) 4642 Madhav Godbole (RA) 2072 Identity across Boundaries; Karen Leonard ASIA, WEST AYURVED (BR) 1630 ‘Final Borders’ and ‘Security Zones’ in Systems of Medicine: Issues and Responses Indian Stock Market in Comparison; Palestine: Israeli Plans for a Bantustan in Bombay Presidency; Mridula Ramanna Joydeep Biswas (C) 1747 ‘State’; Gabriela Becker (C) 1237 (SA) 3221 Is India Ripe for Integrated Water Resources A ‘New Regional Order’? (Ed) 3339 BACKWARD CLASSES Management? Fitting Water Policy to America and the Israel Lobby (C) 3651 An Enigma Called Kanshi Ram; National Development Context; Tushaar From 50 Years Ago (November 24, 1956): Anand Teltumbde (C) 4531 Shah and Barbara van Koppen (SA) 3413 Delving into Oil Economics (Ed) 4837 Karnataka: The Muted Anti-Reservation Meeting the AIDS Challenge; Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge; Agitation; Muzaffar Assadi (C) 3146 Suneetha Kadiyala (BR) 1187 Ramesh Thakur (P) 3297 Myopic Oversight (Ed) 4523 ASIA, CENTRAL Iraqi Resistance Gets a Breather; On Backwardness and Fair Access to Central Asia: Great Game Replayed? K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 2705 Higher Education: Results from NSS R G Gidadhubli (BR) 131 Israel in Lebanon: Wreaking Havoc and 55th Round Surveys, 1999-2000; ASIA, EAST Violence; Sukumar Muralidharan (C) 3277 K Sundaram (SA) 5173 More Light on a Miracle; J C Sandesara Israel’s Failure in Lebanon; Sukumar Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics (BR) 4123 Muralidharan (C) 4018 and Reservation; Mritiunjoy Mohanty ASIA, SOUTH National Interest: A Flawed Notion: (SA) 3777 The ‘Ides’ of April: Lessons from Nepal; Indian Foreign Policy since 1991; Three Myths about Reservations; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 1831 Achin Vanaik (P) 5045 Neera Chandhoke (C) 2289

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Well-being and Caste in : Two Nations and a Dead Body: Mortuarial BEVERAGES Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; Rites and Post-Colonial Modes of Food Regulation: Missing Standards (Ed) 3552 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 4261 Nation-Making in South Asia; BHOPAL BACKWARD REGIONS Sajal Nag (SA) 5183 Bhopal Beyond the Bottom Line (Ed) 1404 Twelfth Finance Commission and BANK DEPOSITS Bhopal Gas Tragedy: ‘New’ Victims; Backward States; G R Reddy (SA) 3513 Increasing Concentration of Banking Betwa Sharma (C) 1613 BAJRANG DAL Operations: Top Centres and Retail Loans; BHOPAL GAS DISASTER Portents of Nanded: Bajrang Dal and EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1113 Bhopal Beyond the Bottom Line (Ed) 1404 the Bomb? Subhash Gatade (C) 2055 BANKRUPTCY Bhopal Gas Tragedy: ‘New’ Victims; BALANCE OF PAYMENTS Jammu and : Knee-jerk Reaction; Betwa Sharma (C) 1613 A Causal Investigation of Aggregate Gautam Navlakha (C) 3759 BHUTAN Output Fluctuations in India; BANKS AND BANKING How Promising Is BIMSTEC? G Sasidaran (F) 4081 Basel II and Bank Lending Behaviour: Some Nilanjan Banik (SA) 5264 BALOCHISTAN Likely Implications for Monetary Policy; Political Transition in Bhutan; Bugti and the Baloch Cause; Haris Gazdar Partha Ray; Saibal Ghosh and Mathew Joseph C (C) 1311 (F) 4100 D M Nachane (SA) 1053 Roots and the Route of Secularism BANGALORE Commercial Bank Lending to Small-Scale in Sikkim; Vibha Arora (SA) 4063 Banking on the Bangalore Dream; Industry; K S Ramachandra Rao; Abhiman BIFR Asha Ghosh (C) 689 Das and Arvind Kumar Singh (SA) 1025 Industrial Sickness: Trends and Patterns; BMIC Road to Nowhere (Ed) 2509 Financial Liberalisation in India: An Rosemary K Abraham and G Omkarnath Convention of People’s Movements; Assessment of Its Nature and Outcomes; (SA) 4161 Sanjay Sangvai (C) 3563 Parthapratim Pal and C P Chandrasekhar BIHAR Failure on the Rationality Front; (SA) 975 Culture, Development and the Cultural Sanjay Kumar (LE) 3130 From 50 Years Ago (March 10, 1956): Capital of Farce: The Musahar Community Fiscal and Distributional Implications of The Role of State Bank (Ed) 846 in Bihar; Arun Kumar (SA) 4281 Property Tax Reforms in Indian Cities; Genesis of High Finance: Case of Medici Do Parents Spread Educational Expenditure Somik V Lall and Uwe Deichmann Bank; D N Ghosh (C) 542 Evenly across the Two Genders? Evidence (SA) 3209 Human Resource Issues at Regional Rural from Two North Indian States; Kausik Garden City to Technopole; Banks; Dinkar Rao (C) 954 Chaudhuri and Susmita Roy (SA) 5276 James Heitzman (BR) 403 Increasing Concentration of Banking Implementation of ICDS in Bihar and Neither Public-Private nor a Private Public: Operations: Top Centres and Retail Loans; Jharkhand; Nandini Nayak and It’s We the People; Hari Ram (D) 366 EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1113 Naresh C Saxena (F) 3680 Ritual and Urbanism; Sharad Chari (BR) 3508 Internal Credit Rating Practices of Indian Is Culture the Culprit? Rahul Ramagundam Towards Urban Multi-Airport Systems; Banks; M Jayadev (F) 1069 (C) 4857 Philip S Thomas (C) 4326 Is Not the Current Growth Cycle Driven by NREGA Implementation - II: Birth Pangs in Working of the BATF; Asha Ghosh (D) 1376 Bank Credit? EPW Research Foundation Bihar; Prakash Louis (C) 4946 BANGLADESH (MMR) 4840 A Visit to Two ‘Flaming Fields’ of Bihar; Bangladesh ‘Home-Grown’ Democracy; Is the Role of Banks as Financial D Bandyopadhyay (C) 5302 Moazzem Hossain (C) 791 Intermediaries Decreasing? Who Are the ‘Community’? The World Bank Bangladesh Troubled Future; Sarmila Bose A Helicopter Tour; A S Ramasastri and and Agrarian Power in Bihar; (BR) 806 N K Unnikrishnan (SA) 1063 Kalpana Wilson (C) 23 Bangladesh War of 1971: A Prescription for Liquidity Risk: Causes, Consequences and BIODIVERSITY Reconciliation? Nayanika Mookherjee Implications for Risk Management; Contending Water Uses: Biodiversity vs (D) 3901 Viral V Acharya (F) 460 Irrigation: Case of Keoladeo National Park; Bangladesh: Musical Chairs; Zafar Sobhan Monetary Policy and Bank Behaviour: Malavika Chauhan (F) 575 (F) 3918 Empirical Evidence from India; Saibal Exclusion in Madhav National Park: Bangladesh: Violent Countdown (Ed) 5293 Ghosh (F) 853 Is Policy Change Required? The Chaudhuris of Bharenga; AM (C) 4653 Money and Banking Composition and Kim Beazley (SA) 4684 Conflicts over International Waters; Trend Growth; EPW Research Foundation Whither ‘Community-Based’ Conservation? Rakesh Tiwary (F) 1684 (CS) 1735 Chetan Kumar (P) 5313 Conspiracy Theories in Bangladesh; Mythology of Banking Ownership; BIOSAFETY Zafar Sobhan (F) 3275 K B L Mathur (C) 5039 Biosafety and Beyond: GM Crops in India; Game on Bangladesh’s Pre-Election Season Productivity Growth in Regional Rural Kavitha Kuruganti (C) 4245 in Full Swing; Zafar Sobhan (C) 1736 Banks; A Amarender Reddy (F) 1079 BIOTECHNOLOGY Globalisation and Economic Transformation The Strike in SBI: Reflections of a Bt Cotton; Vivek Cariappa (LE) 4088 in a Peripheral Economy: The Bangladesh Sympathiser of Workers’ Rights; GM Crops in India: Is the Government’s Experience; Anu Muhammad (SA) 1459 Vinod Vyasulu (C) 1500 Policy Stance Justified? Kasturi Das How Promising Is BIMSTEC? Universal Banking: Solution for India’s (D) 834 Nilanjan Banik (SA) 5264 Financial Challenges? A K Khandelwal (SA) Regulatory Supervision of Emerging Last Man Standing; Zafar Sobhan (F) 5026 969 Technologies: A Case for Nanotechnology A Rejoinder to a Review; BENGAL in India; Nupur Chowdhury (C) 4730 Hiranmay Karlekar (LE) 4710 Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Discovery from BJP State Responses to Displacement; Below: Decolonisation and the Search Adrift at 25 (Ed) 3 Jayant Sriram (BR) 39 for Linguistic Authenticity; Journey from Pokhran-II to Hyde Act; Terrorism in the North-East: Linkages Gagnendra Nath Dash (F) 4801 T Jayaraman (C) 5216 and Implications; Archana Upadhyay Inadequate Analysis; Joya Chatterji Minority Rights and Human Rights; (SA) 4993 (BR) 4037 A G Noorani (C) 1741

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Municipal Elections in Uttar Pradesh; Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance Dube, Saurabh: Stitches on Time: Colonial A K Verma (C) 5218 of the UN Guiding Principles 39 Textures and Postcolonial Tangles 804 Of Criminals, Martyrs and Innocents; Banerjee, Sumanta: Crime and Urbanisation: Dube, Saurabh and Ishita Banerjee-Dube: Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5105 Calcutta in the 19th Century 5119 Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Sordid Democratic Process (Ed) 371 Barak, Aharon: The Judge in a Modernity, Colonial Modernities 4583 Upswing of Congress Party? (Ed) 3627 Democracy 4340 Eaton, Richard M: A Social History of the BLACK MONEY Batabyal, Rakesh: Communalism in Bengal: Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives 619 Black Economy, Underestimation of From Famine to Noakhali 4037 Elyachar, Julia: Markets of Disposition: Unemployment and Budget 2005-06; Beckerlegge, Gwilym: Swami Vivekananda’s NGO’s Economic Development and Arun Kumar (SA) 3315 Legacy of Service: A Study of the the State in Cairo 3863 BODOS Ramakrishna Math and Mission 4958 Ernst, Carl W: Following Muhammad: Assam New Equations and Uneasy Alliances; Bhaduri, Amit: Development with Dignity: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary Udayon Misra (C) 2291 A Case for Full Employment 891 World 2307 BOLIVIA Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi: The Financial Falzon, Mark-Anthony: Cosmopolitan Bolivia: What Next? (Ed) 4 Foundations of the British Raj (Ideas and Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora, Making the Impossible Possible; Rahul Interests in the Reconstruction of Indian 1860-2000 4435 Varman (BR) 3407 Public Finance 1858) 3772 Farooqui, Amar: Opium City: Making of Trade Treaties and US Hegemony in the Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan; Niraja Gopal Early Victorian Bombay 3506 Americas; Sujatha Fernandes (C) 1954 Jayal; Bishnu N Bohapatra and Sudha Pai: Farrington, John; Priya Deshingkar; BOMBAY Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Craig Johnson and Daniel Start: Policy Systems of Medicine: Issues and Responses Experience 3404 Windows and Livelihood Futures: in Bombay Presidency; Mridula Ramanna Blackburn, Stuart and Vasudha Dalmia: Prospects for Poverty Reduction in (SA) 3221 India`s Literary History: Essays on the Rural India 4755 BOMBAY PRESIDENCY Nineteenth Century 893 Fukuyama, Francis: The End of History Systems of Medicine: Issues and Responses Bose, Ashish: Beyond Demography: and the Last Man 3859 in Bombay Presidency; Mridula Ramanna Dialogue with People 4342 Ganachari, Arvind: Nationalism and Social (SA) 3221 Bose, Sugata: A Hundred Horizons: Reform in a Colonial Situation 485 BOND MARKET The Indian Ocean in the Age of Ganachari, Arvind: Gopal Ganesh Agarkar: Case for Government Direction on Interest Global Empire 4035 The Secular Rationalist Reformer 3412 Rates; EPW Research Foundation Boudin, Chesa: Understanding the Gangolli, Leena V; Ravi Duggal; Abhaya (MMR) 3632 Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chavez Shukla; Ravi Duggal and T R Dilip: Curtailing Capability of NABARD; Talks to Marta Harnecker 3407 Review of Healthcare in India Health EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 4396 Bowen, H V: The Business of Empire: The East and Healthcare in Maharashtra: Exuberance in Financial Markets: Towards India Company and Imperial Britain, A Status Report 4579 What End? EPW Research Foundation 1756-1833 1447 Ghosh, Archana and Stephanie Tawa (MMR) 5208 Brara, Rita: Shifting Landscapes: Lama-Rewal: Democratisation in Is Not the Current Growth Cycle Driven by The Making and Remaking of Village Progress: Women and Local Politics Bank Credit? EPW Research Foundation Commons in India 1632 in Urban India 713 (MMR) 4840 Briscoe, J and R P S Malik: India’s Water Girish Kumar: Local Democracy in India: BONUS Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future 2201 Interpreting Decentralisation 4873 Executive Compensation, Firm Performance Chang, Ha-Joon: Rethinking Development Gooptu, Suparna: Cornelia Sorabji, and Governance: An Empirical Analysis; Economics 1448 India’s Pioneer Woman Lawyer: Aditya Parthasarathy; Krishnakumar Chang, Ha-Joon and Ilene Grabel: Reclaiming A Biography 4875 Menon and Debashish Bhattacherjee Development: An Alternative Economic Gopinath, I: Nalini Jameela Oru Lyngika (SA) 4139 Policy Manual 3505 Thozhilaliyude Atmakatha, BOOK TRADE Chaudhuri, Sudip: The WTO and India’s (Autobiography of a Sex Worker) 1249 FIR against Danish Books; Deepika Tandon Pharmaceuticals Industry: Patent Greenhalgh, Susan and Edwin A A Winckler: and Paramjeet Singh (LE) 4834 Protection, TRIPS, and Developing Governing ’s Population: From BOOKS REVIEWED Countries 1975 Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics 1777 Acharya, Shankar: Essays on Macroeconomic Chawla, Janet: Birth and Birthgivers: The Guha, Amalendu: Planter Raj to Swaraj: Policy and Growth in India 2203 Power behind the Shame 2310 Freedom Struggle and Electoral Politics Agrawal, Arun: Environmentality: Chopra, Radhika; Caroline Osella and in Assam 3203 Technologies of Government and Filippo Osella: South Asian Masculinities, Guha, Ramachandra: How Much Should a the Making of Subjects 1773 Context of Change, Sites of Continuity 807 Person Consume? Thinking Through the Bagchi, Amiya Kumar and Krishna Soman: Commander, Simon: The Software Industry Environment 5052 Maladies, Preventives and Curatives: in Emerging Markets 1345 Gupta, Dipankar: Anti-Utopia: Essential Debates in Public Health in India 2457 Cooper, Randolf G S: The Anglo-Maratha Writings of Andr‚ B‚teille 3005 Bajpai, Peeyush; Laveesh Bhandari and Campaigns and the Contest for India the Hartung, Jan Peter and Helmut Reifeld: Aali Sinha: Social and Economic Profile Struggle for Control of the South Asian Islamic Education, Diversity and of India 1520 Military Economy 328 National Identity: DŒnŒ Madrasas in Bakhle, Janaki: Two Men and Music: Council for Social Development: India: India Post 9/11 2544 Nationalism in the Making of an Social Development Report 3955 Hemming, Richard: Public-Private Indian Classical Tradition 3861 Das, Veena and Deborah Poole: Anthropology Partnerships, Government Guarantees, Banerjee, Himadri: The Other Sikhs: A View in the Margins of the State 3510 and Fiscal Risk 4956 from Eastern India 35 de Souza, Eunice: Purdah an Anthology 1775 Jain, Devaki: Women, Development and Banerjee, Paula; Sabyasachi Basu Ray Devy, G N: A Nomad Called Thief: the UN: A Sixty Year Quest for Equality Chaudhury and Samir Kumar Das: Internal Reflections on Adivasi Silence 4437 and Justice 3952

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Jomo, K S: Globalisation under Hegemony. Nigam, Aditya: The Insurrection of Subba, T B and G C Ghosh: The Anthropology The Great Divergence: The Changing Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular of North-East India: A Textbook 128 World Economy 710 Nationalism in India 5240 Subramanian, Lakshmi: From the Tanjore Jomo, K S: The Pioneers of Development Oberoi, Pia: Exile and Belonging: Refugees Court to the Madras Music Academy: A Economics: Great Economists on and State Policy in South Asia 4038 Social History of Music in South India 3003 Development 1977 Omvedt, Gail: Buddhism in India: Sun, Chia-Hung: The Growth Process in East Jomo, K S: The Great Divergence: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste 5121 Asian Manufacturing Industries: A Hegemony, Uneven Development and Pangare, Ganesh; Vasudha Pangare and Re-examination 4123 Global Inequality 710 Binayak Das: Springs of Life: Tendulkar, Suresh D; Arup Mitra; Jomo, K S and Ben Fine (eds): The New India’s Water Resources 715 K Narayanan and Deb Kusum Das: India Development Economics: After the Panjwani, Narendra: Emotion Pictures: Industrialisation in a Reforming Economy Washington Consensus 3002 Cinematic Journeys into the – Essays for K L Krishna 800 Kapur, Ratna: Erotic Justice: Politics of Indian Self 4673 Thapan, Meenakshi: Transnational Postcolonialism 3409 Pratichi Research: The Pratichi Migration and the Politics of Identity 1630 Karat, Brinda and Aijaz Ahmad: Survival Health Report 481 Trehan, Jyoti: Crime and Money and Emancipation, Notes from Indian Ramaswamy, Vijaya: Textiles and Laundering: The Indian Perspective 330 Women’s Struggles 624 Weavers in South India 5050 VanLoon, Gary W; S G Patil and L B Hugar: Karlekar, Hiranmay: Bangladesh the Next Rao, M Govinda and Nirvikar Singh: Agricultural Sustainability: Strategies Afghanistan? 806 Political Economy of Federalism in India 960 for Assessment 3703 Khare, R S: Caste, Hierarchy and Richardson, John: Paradise Poisoned: Ved Kumari and Susan L Brooks: Creative Individualism: Indian Critiques of Louis Learning about Conflict, Terrorism and Child Advocacy – Global Perspectives 1349 Dumont’s Contributions 4961 Development from ’s Venkata Ratnam, C S: Negotiated Change Kohli, Renu: Liberalising Capital Flows: Civil Wars 4438 Collective Bargaining, Liberalisation and India’s Experience and Policy Issues 1891 Roy, Kumkum; Kunal Chakrabarti and Restructuring in India 204 Kurien, Verghese: I Too Had a Dream 2455 Tanika Sarkar: The Vedas, Hinduism, Venkatachalapathy, A R: In Those Days Lal, Ruby: Domesticity and Power in Hindutva 405 There Was No Coffee: Writings in the Early Mughal World 2547 Rumer, Boris: Central Asia: Cultural History 3589 Louw, Eric: The Media and Political Process 483 A Gathering Storm 131 Verma, Arvind: The Indian Police: Maharatna, Arup: Demographic Rumer, Boris and Stanislav Zhukov: Central A Critical Evaluation 1185 Perspectives on India’s Tribes 327 Asia The Challenges of Independence 131 Vora, Rajendra and Anne Feldhaus: Region, Manchanda, Rita: Media Crossing Borders 483 Saberwal, Vasant and Mahesh Rangarajan: Culture and Politics in India 2542 Mayaram, Shail; M S S Pandian and Battles over Nature, Science and Winkelmann, Mareike Jule: From Behind Ajay Skaria: Subaltern Studies XII: the Politics of Conservation 1347 the Curtain: A Study of a Girls? Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications Sadler, Roger L: Electronic Media Law 483 Madrasa in India 3774 of History 3701 Sahasrabudhey, Sunil: Gandhi’s Challenge Zachariah, Benjamin: Developing India: Mehrotra, Santosh; P R Panchamukhi; to Modern Science 5241 An Intellectual and Social History 1247 Ranjana Srivastava and Ravi Srivastava: Sahay, Uday: Making News: Handbook of Zelliot, Eleanor and Rohini Mokashi- Universalising Elementary Education in the Media in Contemporary India 483 Punekar: Untouchable Saints: An Indian India: Uncaging the ‘Tiger’ Economy 207 Sarukkai, Sundar: Indian Philosophy and Phenomenon 2708 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: Philosophy of Science 2199 BORDER DISPUTES Report of the National Commission on Sen, Amartya: Identity and Violence: India and China Relations: A Partnership Macroeconomics and Health 962 The Illusion of Destiny 3586 of ‘Global Significance’; Alka Acharya Mishra, Geetanjali and Radhika Sen, Amiya P: Social and Religious Reform: (C) 4934 Chandiramani: Sexuality, Gender and The Hindus of British India 407 India-China Border Dispute: Centrality Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in Sen, Geeti: Where the Sun Rises, When of ; Arijit Mazumdar (C) 4324 South and South-East Asia 1189 Shadows Fall: The North-East 4753 Settlements and Disputes: China’s Mitra, Ashok: From the Ramparts 2707 Senapati, Fakir Mohan: Six Acres and a Approach to Territorial Issues; Mukherjee, Nirmalangshu: December 13, Third (Chha Mana Atha Guntha) 4123 Neville Maxwell (SA) 3873 Terror over Democracy 3206 Shapiro, Ian: The Moral Foundations Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute, 1948-60: Nagaraj, R: Aspects of India’s Economic of Politics 2458 A Reappraisal; Srinath Raghavan Growth and Reforms 4670 Sharma, R S: India’s Ancient Past 1979 (SA) 3882 Nair, Janaki: The Promise of the Metropolis: Shrivastava, K M: Media Ethics Singh, BOTSWANA Bangalore’s Twentieth Century 403 Jaswant: A Call to Honour: In Service Botswana Growth sans Development; Nandy, Ashis and Ramin Jahanbegloo: of Emergent India 4667 P Mohanan Pillai (C) 2301 Talking India: Ashis Nandy in Conversation Sinha, Shashank Shekhar: Restless Mothers BRAHMINS AND BRAHMINISM with Ramin Jahanbegloo 4751 and Turbulent Daughters: Situating The Brahmin and the Citizen: Shankar’s Narain, Jai P: AIDS in Asia: The Challenge Tribes in Gender Studies 3205 Anniyan; Rajan Krishnan and Ahead 1187 South Asia Human Rights Documentation M S S Pandian (SA) 3055 Narain, Vishal: Water Users Associations and Centre: Handbook of Human Rights Parashuram: Icon of New Brahminism; Irrigation Management Reform in Two and Criminal Justice in India: The System A M Shah (C) 390 Large-Scale Systems in India 2305 and Procdure 621 BRAZIL Narula, Rajneesh and Sanjaya Lall: Srinivas, Smriti: Landscapes of Urban The 1999 Brazilian Financial Crisis: Understanding FDI Assisted Economic Memory: The Sacred and the Civic ‘Macho-Monetarism’ in Action; Development 1248 in India’s High-Tech City 3508 Gabriel Palma (SA) 727 Ng, Cecilia and Swasti Mitter: Gender and Stiglitz, Joseph E and Andrew Charlton: Access to Healthcare for All: What Can We the Digital Economy : Perspectives from Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Learn from the AIDS Movement? the Developing World 1517 Development 1893 Anand Zachariah (C) 2522

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Brazil’s External Policy; R Viswanathan Recovering a Tradition: Forgotten Women’s Indian Modernity; N R Sheth (LE) 1146 (F) 685 Voices; Eunice De’souza (SA) 1642 Is the Trend in Health Changing? Convertibility Brazilian Experience; Roots of Agrarian Crisis in Interwar India: Ravi Duggal (C) 1335 Alexandre Mendonca Goncalves and Retrieving a Narrative; Tirthankar Roy NDA and UPA Budgets: Continuity or Joanilio Rodolphp Teixeira (F) 1867 (SA) 5389 Change? Mala Lalvani (C) 1318 Cross-Country Comparisons of Software RSS in Sindh: 1942-48; Rita Kothari (SA) 3007 Neglect of Rural Sector; Kripa Shankar Growth; M Vijayabaskar (BR) 1345 Systems of Medicine: Issues and Responses (LE) 1298 Lula at the Crossroads? Workers’ Party in Bombay Presidency; Mridula Ramanna Outcome Budgeting: Moving beyond and Political Crisis in Brazil; (SA) 3221 Rhetoric? Harnita Chowdhary (C) 2515 Gianpaolo Baiocchi (F) 675 Trade and Empire Building; The Politics of Sound Finance; Lula Government and the Brazilian Political Lakshmi Subramanian (BR) 1447 Amit Bhaduri (F) 4569 Scenario; Carlos Edardo Martins (F) 681 A Transnarrative for the Colony: Astronomy Shrinking Horizon of an Expanding Orthodox Economic Policies of the Lula Education and Religion in 19th Century Economy: India’s Military Spending; Administration; Marcelo Dias Carcanholo India; Rajive Tiwari (SA) 1269 Gautam Navlakha (C) 1338 (F) 679 War and the Military Economy; Anirudh BUDGET, UNION Rural Sector under the Lula Government; Deshpande (BR) 328 Black Economy, Underestimation of Albuquerque Maria Beatriz de David and The Ways of Faith: Zenana Mission in Unemployment and Budget 2005-06; Paula de Andrade Rollo (F) 683 Trivandrum, 1864-1964; G S Jayasree Arun Kumar (SA) 3315 Trade Liberalisation and Environmental (SA) 1669 Budget Making a la Chidambaram; Protection: Responses of Leather Western Secularism and Colonial Legacy in EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1378 Industry in Brazil, China and India; India; Himanshu Roy (SA) 158 Cess-driven Allocations for Education; U Sankar (SA) 2470 BROADCASTING Jandhyala B G Tilak (C) 1331 Way Forward for Left in Latin America? Community Radio in Venezuela; Sujatha From 50 Years Ago (March 17,1956): Sujatha Fernandes (F) 3344 Fernandes (C) 317 Control Over Expenditure (Ed) 937 BRITISH RULE Remote Control (Ed) 3131 From 50 Years Ago (March 3, 1956): Ambivalence of Social Consciousness: BSP Deshmukh and Direct Taxes (Ed) 770 Inter-Community Relations in Modern Bahujan Samaj Party: Kanshi Ram’s Legacy Gender Budgeting Statement: Misleading India; Sudhir Chandra (P) 397 (Ed) 4304 and Patriarchal Assumptions; Beyond Blueprints; Bodhisattva Kar (BR) 804 BUDDHISM Subrat Das and Yamini Mishra (C) 3285 Business Conduct in Late Colonial India: A Reinterpretation of Buddhism; Half-hearted Attention to Agriculture; European Business in Kanpur 1900-1939; Laxman Satya (BR) 5121 S Mahendra Dev (C) 1327 Biswajit Chatterjee and Manali Roots and the Route of Secularism How Useful Is New Tax Expenditure Chakrabarti (SA) 904 in Sikkim; Vibha Arora (SA) 4063 Statement? E A S Sarma (C) 1322 Calcutta Slaughterhouse Colonial and Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching India’s Defence Budgeting: Post-Colonial Experiences; History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Lessons Not Learnt; Amaresh Bagchi Samiparna Samanta (SA) 1999 Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 (RA) 5321 Colleges and Kings: Higher Education under BUDGET Is the Trend in Health Changing? Direct and Indirect Rule; Georg Berkemer Black Economy, Underestimation of Ravi Duggal (C) 1335 and Margret Frenz (SA) 1261 Unemployment and Budget 2005-06; Neglect of Rural Sector; Kripa Shankar Debating Reform in Colonial India; Arun Kumar (SA) 3315 (LE) 1298 Gwilym Beckerlegge (BR) 407 Budget 2006 Outlays, Inequality and Outcome Budgeting: Moving beyond Gandhi: The Colonising Object; Growth; Errol D’Souza (C) 857 Rhetoric? Harnita Chowdhary (C) 2515 Vithal Rajan (C) 1425 Budget 2006-07 Pro-Rich; Mary George BUREAUCRACY In the City, Out of Place: Environment and (LE) 1146 Autonomy vs Ministerial Control in AIIMS: Modernity, Delhi 1860s to 1960s; Budget and Growth; M Suresh Babu (C) 1967 A Tussle Born in 1950s; Shrish N Kavadi Awadhendra Sharan (SA) 4905 Budget Making a la Chidambaram; (C) 2967 A Life in the Limelight; Antoinette Burton EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1378 Elections and the Bureaucracy in (BR) 4875 Budgetary Position of Government of India; West Bengal; D Bandyopadhyay (C) 1417 Looking through the Purdah; Indrani Sen EPW Research Foundation (CS) 3747 Ideals vs Realities: Limitations of (BR) 1775 Budgetary Rules and Plan Financing: Governance; Samit Kar (C) 4322 Making of a City; Sharit K Bhowmik (BR) 3506 Revisiting the Fiscal Responsibility Act; Is the Institution of District Magistrate Many Threats of a Story; Mihir Rakshit (F) 4547 Still Necessary? D Bandyopadhyay Seemanthini Niranjana (BR) 5050 Cess-driven Allocations for Education; (C) 4851 Myth of Laissez-faire in Colonial India; Jandhyala B G Tilak (C) 1331 Representation of Minorities in Civil Anand Chandavarkar (BR) 3772 Does the Budget Matter in Pakistan? Services; Syed Najiullah (C) 688 Nationalism and Social Reform; S Akbar Zaidi (C) 2512 BURMA Neeraj Hatekar (BR) 485 FRBM Act and Eleventh Plan Approach Settlements and Disputes: China’s Approach Nature of Peasant Nationalism; Paper; D K Srivastava (F) 4553 to Territorial Issues; Neville Maxwell Anand Chakravarti (RA) 3302 Gender Budgeting Statement: Misleading (SA) 3873 Only One Word, Properly Altered: Gandhi and Patriarchal Assumptions; Subrat Das BUSINESS HISTORY and the Question of the Prostitute; and Yamini Mishra (C) 3285 Business Conduct in Late Colonial India: Ajay Skaria (SA) 5065 Half-hearted Attention to Agriculture; European Business in Kanpur 1900-1939; Options Trading in Commodities; Madhoo S Mahendra Dev (C) 1327 Biswajit Chatterjee and Manali Pavaskar (C) 3150 How Useful Is New Tax Expenditure Chakrabarti (SA) 904 An Oriya Village and the Battle of Plassey: Statement? E A S Sarma (C) 1322 BUSINESSMEN Senapati’s Allegory of the Raj; India’s Defence Budgeting: Lessons Not Resolving Business Disputes Speedily; Paul L Sawyer (F) 4782 Learnt; Amaresh Bagchi (RA) 5321 Anurag K Agarwal (C) 2417

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CALCUTTA Capital Inflows during the Post-Liberalisation Of Criminals, Martyrs and Innocents; Crime and Punishment; Chinmay Period; Indrani Chakraborty (SA) 143 Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5105 Chakrabarty (BR) 5119 Case against Rushing into Full Capital Open Letter to President on Mohammed Through the Eyes of the Police: Naxalites in Account Convertibility; Partha Sen (F) 1853 Afzal; Nirmala Deshpande; Surendra Calcutta in the 1970s; Ashoke Kumar Casino Capitalism in the Making? (Ed) 1223 Mohan; Gautam Navlakha; Tripta Wahi; Mukhopadhyay (SA) 3227 China, India and the World Economy; Ali Javed; Sunil and Arjun Singh (LE) 4390 CALIFORNIA T N Srinivasan (SA) 3716 CAPITALISM Debate on Indian History: Revising Convertibility Brazilian Experience; Diffusion of Development; Prabhat Patnaik Textbooks in California; Sudarsan Alexandre Mendonca Goncalvesand (P) 1766 Padmanabhan (C) 1761 Joanilio Rodolphp Teixeira (F) 1867 Poverty and Capitalism; Barbara CALL CENTERS Currency Sovereignty and Policy Harriss-White (P) 1241 Organising Call Centre Agents: Emerging Independence: Argentina after CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES Issues; Ernesto Noronha and Abandoning the Currency Board; Public Health: Burden of Disease (Ed) 4228 Premilla D’Cruz (SA) 2115 L Randall Wray (F) 1857 CASTE CONFLICT CANADA A Dangerous Measure; K S et al After Khairlanji: Dalits and the State Competition Policy and Practice in Canada: Krishnaswamy (LE) 1222 (Ed) 5020 Salient Features and Some Perspectives Financial Liberalisation in India: Contending Water Uses: Social for India; K V Ramaswamy (SA) 1903 An Assessment of Its Nature and Undercurrents in a Water-Scarce Village; Environmental Impact of Inter-Basin Water Outcomes; Parthapratim Pal and R K Sama and Anjal Prakash (F) 577 Transfer Projects: Some Evidence from C P Chandrasekhar (SA) 975 Deprived Castes and Privileged Politics: An Canada; Deepak Kumar Das (F) 1703 Financial Liberalisation in Semi- Urban Informal Market in Contemporary CAPITAL ACCOUNT CONVERTIBILITY Industrialised Economies: The Mexican India; Kaveri Gill (SA) 133 Capital Account Convertibility of the Rupee: Case; Julio Lopez and Guadalupe Mantey A Reinterpretation of Buddhism; Issues for Prior Action; Sitharam (F) 1870 Laxman Satya (BR) 5121 Gurumurthi (C) 3752 Flawed Analytics; Partha Sen (F) 98 CASTE CONFLICTS Case against Rushing into Full Capital Flawed Logic of Capital Account Kherlanji: Caste Violence (Ed) 4632 Account Convertibility; Partha Sen (F) 1853 Liberalisation; Amitva Krishna Dutt (F) 1850 The Mad Violence; GPD (F) 5030 Casino Capitalism in the Making? (Ed) 1223 Great Indian Story of Convertibility; CASTES AND CASTE SYSTEM Convertibility Brazilian Experience; A Vasudevan (F) 1881 Assumptions and Arithmetic of Caste-Based Alexandre Mendonca Goncalves and Liberalising Capital Account: Lessons and Reservations; Rohini Somanathan (F) 2436 Joanilio Rodolphp Teixeira (F) 1867 the Great Dilemma; Sugata Marjit The Brahmin and the Citizen: Currency Sovereignty and Policy (BR) 1891 Shankar’s Anniyan; Rajan Krishnan Independence: Argentina after Managing the Transition to Convertibility; and M S S Pandian (SA) 3055 Abandoning the Currency Board; Jamal Mecklai and C Chandrasekhar Case for Caste-based Quotas in Higher L Randall Wray (F) 1857 (F) 1878 Education; Jayati Ghosh (F) 2428 A Dangerous Measure; K S et al Monetary Policy and Operations in Countries Caste Punishment; M V Nadkarni (LE) 4926 Krishnaswamy (LE) 1222 with Surplus Liquidity; Mridul Saggar The Chaudhuris of Bharenga; AM (C) 4653 Financial Liberalisation in Semi-Industrialised (SA) 1041 Democracy, Disagreement and Merit; Economies: The Mexican Case; Julio Lopez Neither Dread Nor Encourage Them; Pratap Bhanu Mehta (F) 2425 and Guadalupe Mantey (F) 1870 T T Ram Mohan (F) 95 Dumont Revisited; Pauline Kolenda Flawed Logic of Capital Account Liberalisation; A Note on Portfolio Flows into India; (BR) 4961 Amitva Krishna Dutt (F) 1850 A Vasudevan (F) 90 The Eternal Debate; Ashwini Deshpande Great Indian Story of Convertibility; On Liberalising Foreign Institutional (F) 2444 A Vasudevan (F) 1881 Investments; Mihir Rakshit (SA) 991 Exclusive Inequalities: Merit, Caste and Letters (27 May 2006); Raghbendra Jha Poland’s Experience with Convertibility; Discrimination in Indian Higher Education and Suresh D Tendulkar (LE) 2042 Leon Podkaminer (F) 1864 Today; Satish Deshpande (F) 2438 Liberalising Capital Account: Lessons and A Practitioner’s Perspective; Gandhi’s Little-Known Critique of Varna; the Great Dilemma; Sugata Marjit (BR) 1891 Abheek Barua (F) 1875 Anil Nauriya (C) 1835 Managing the Transition to Convertibility; Real Exchange Rate, Fiscal Deficits and Interrogating Caste and Religion in India’s Jamal Mecklai and C Chandrasekhar Capital Flows: Refutation Again; Emerging Middle Class; N J Demerath III; (F) 1878 Vijay Joshi (D) 446 Surinder S Jodhka and More on Capital Account Convertibility; Stock Market Bears at the Door (Ed) 2176 Loren R Demerath (SA) 3813 Gurbachan Singh (D) 3617 Stock Market Fall: Managing Volatile Flows; Memories, Saffronising Statues and Neoclassical Finance and the Fully T T Ram Mohan (C) 2411 Constructing Communal Politics; Convertible Rupee; Why Capital Account Convertibility Badri Narayan (SA) 4695 Sivakumar Arumugam (SA) 4807 in India Is Premature; Merit of Reservations; Kancha Ilaiah (F) 2447 Poland’s Experience with Convertibility; John Williamson (F) 1848 OBC Reservations in Higher Education: Leon Podkaminer (F) 1864 CAPITAL FORMATION Are They Worth All the Turmoil? Sebastian A Practitioner’s Perspective; Abheek Barua A Causal Investigation of Aggregate Output Morris (C) 2701 (F) 1875 Fluctuations in India; G Sasidaran (F) 4081 On Backwardness and Fair Access to Roadmap to Risk and Volatility (Ed) 3827 Estimates of Gross Domestic Product, Higher Education: Results from NSS 55th Why Capital Account Convertibility in India Saving and Capital Formation Round Surveys, 1999-2000; K Sundaram Is Premature; John Williamson (F) 1848 (New Series Base Year 1999-2000); (SA) 5173 CAPITAL FLOWS EPW Research Foundation (CS) 455 Parashuram Icon of New Brahminism; Capital Account Convertibility of CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A M Shah (C) 390 the Rupee: Issues for Prior Action; Death Sentence to Saddam Hussein; Paying the Social Debt; Sukhdeo Thorat Sitharam Gurumurthi (C) 3752 P A Sebastian (C) 5311 (F) 2432

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Redesigning Affirmative Action: Castes and Warehouse Financing Short on Logic and CHHATTISGARH Benefits in Higher Education; Satish Long on Imagination; Madhoo Pavaskar Beyond Blueprints; Bodhisattva Kar (BR) 804 Deshpande and Yogendra Yadav (F) 2419 (C) 1754 Chhattisgarh Physiognomy of Violence; A Reinterpretation of Buddhism; CENTRE-STATE FINANCIAL RELATIONS K Balagopal (C) 2183 Laxman Satya (BR) 5121 Devolution of Net Proceeds of Union Taxes Chhattisgarh Repression Garbed as Security CENSORSHIP and Duties to States as per Recent Finance (Ed) 2044 Dasmunshi’s Delusions; A G Noorani Commissions’ Recommendations; Chhattisgarh: Grassroot Mobilisation for (CL) 5100 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 1303 Children’s Nutrition Rights; CENSUS Fiscal Decentralisation to the Sub-State Samir Garg (F) 3694 Disability Estimates in India: What the Level Governments; M A Oommen (SA) 897 Open Letters to Government and Census and NSS Tell Us; Sophie Mitra Fiscal Marksmanship: Link between Maoists (C) 2977 and Usha Sambamoorthi (F) 4022 Forecasting Central Tax Revenues Privatisation In Chhattisgarh, a River Disability Index: A Measure of Deprivation and State Fiscal Management; Becomes Private Property; Binayak Das among Disabled; A K Mishra and Pratap R Jena (SA) 3971 and Ganesh Pangare (F) 611 Ruchika Gupta (F) 4026 India’s Fiscal Management Post-Liberalisation; Reflections on Naxalism in Chhattisgarh; Non-Scheduled Tribes; Ranjit Sau (LE) 3550 Amaresh Bagchi (P) 4117 K S Subramanian (C) 310 Riddle of Population Growth: Deceleration Redefining the Discourse on Fiscal Universalisation of ICDS and Community in Andhra Pradesh during 1991-2001; Federalism; Sudipto Mundle (BR) 960 Health Worker Programmes: Lessons from Sanjay Kumar and N K Sharma (SA) 4507 Tax Efforts and Taxable Capacity of Chhattisgarh; T Sundararaman (F) 3674 Where Women Prevail: 2001 Census and Central and State Governments; Wages of Counter-Insurgency (Ed) 935 Female Heads of Households; Mahesh C Purohit (SA) 747 CHILD ABUSE Ashish Bose (C) 2192 Transformation of Central Grants to States: Children States of Vulnerability (Ed) 1300 CENTRAL BANKING Growing Conditionality and Bypassing CHILD AND INFANT MORTALITY Article Title; Deena Khatkhate (LE) 1484 State Budgets; Subhash Chandra Garg Riddle of Population Growth: Deceleration Budgetary Rules and Plan Financing: (F) 4977 in Andhra Pradesh during 1991-2001; Revisiting the Fiscal Responsibility Act; Twelfth Finance Commission and Backward Sanjay Kumar and N K Sharma (SA) 4507 Mihir Rakshit (F) 4547 States; G R Reddy (SA) 3513 Case for Government Direction on Interest Why Do the States Not Spend? An Child Labour: Being Politically Correct Rates; EPW Research Foundation Exploration of the Phenomenon of Cash (Ed) 3448 (MMR) 3632 Surpluses and the FRBM Legislation; Child Labour: What Happened to Casino Capitalism in the Making? (Ed) 1223 T M Thomas Isaac and R Ramakumar the Worst Forms? G K Lieten (C) 103 Central Bank Autonomy and Monetary (F) 4965 Domestic Workers Harsh, Everyday Federalism: Ruminations of a CENTRE-STATE RELATIONS Realities; Areeba Hamid (C) 1235 Practitioner; A K N Ahmed (F) 3832 Audacious NAC Proposal Big Brother CHILDREN Central Banking Changing Roles (Ed) 1148 Watching (Ed) 84 Access to Nutritious Meal Programmes: Comments on RBI; A Vasudevan (LE) 3736 Fiscal Marksmanship: Link between Evidence from 1999-2000 NSS Data; Curtailing Capability of NABARD; Forecasting Central Tax Revenues Brinda Viswanathan (SA) 497 EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 4396 and State Fiscal Management; Advocating for Children; Neela Dabir Dear Money Policy, Rising Yields and High Pratap R Jena (SA) 3971 (BR) 1349 Interest Costs; EPW Research Foundation Transformation of Central Grants to States: Chhattisgarh: Grassroot Mobilisation for (MMR) 3268 Growing Conditionality and Bypassing Children’s Nutrition Rights; FRBM Act and Eleventh Plan Approach State Budgets; Subhash Chandra Garg Samir Garg (F) 3694 Paper; D K Srivastava (F) 4553 (F) 4977 Child Labour: Being Politically Correct From 50 Years Ago (July 21, 1956): Why Do the States Not Spend? An Exploration (Ed) 3448 Dead-Wood and Danger (Ed) 3133 of the Phenomenon of Cash Surpluses and Child Malnutrition and Gender Discrimination An Independent Federal RBI: Agathopian the FRBM Legislation; T M Thomas Isaac in South Asia; Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 912 Dream? A Viswanathan (D) 166 and R Ramakumar (F) 4965 Child Malnutrition Behind the Numbers Independent Federal Reserve Bank of India: CHARITABLE TRUSTS (Ed) 1732 A Response to Comments; Anand Decentralised Childcare Services: Childhood in a Globalising World; Chandavarkar (D) 3119 The SEWA Experience; Mirai Chatterjee Krishna Kumar (P) 4030 Inflation Targeting: International (F) 3660 Children States of Vulnerability (Ed) 1300 Experience and Prospects for India; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY Decentralised Childcare Services: Kanhaiya Singh (F) 2958 Productivity in Indian Chemical Sector: The SEWA Experience; Mirai Chatterjee Interest Rate Hike: Dictates of Caution An Intra-Sectoral Analysis; (F) 3660 (Ed) 3264 T Sampath Kumar (SA) 4148 Do Parents Spread Educational Expenditure Is Not the Current Growth Cycle Driven by CHENNAI Evenly across the Two Genders? Bank Credit? EPW Research Foundation Desalination in Chennai: What About the Evidence from Two North Indian States; (MMR) 4840 Poor and the Environment? Gregor Kausik Chaudhuri and Susmita Roy Need for Flexibility in Financial Sector Meerganz von Medeazza (C) 949 (SA) 5276 Reform; EPW Research Foundation Public, Private and Voluntary Agencies in Solid Early Education; Zakiyya Kurien (LE) 1928 (MMR) 4000 Waste Management: A Study in Chennai Employment Guarantee and Child Rights; RBI Autonomy in Historical Perspective; City; Krithika Srinivasan (SA) 2259 Kiran Bhatty (C) 1965 Tapas Kumar Chakrabarty (LE) 534 Secularism, Religiosity and Popular Culture: Food Dole or Health, Nutrition and Reserve Bank of India’s Accounts and Chennai’s Roadside Temples; Development Programme? Operations (July-June); EPW Research U Kalpagam (SA) 4595 Shanti Ghosh (F) 3664 Foundation (CS) 3831 Towards Urban Multi-Airport Systems; Hidden Hunger: The Problem and Possible Roadmap to Risk and Volatility (Ed) 3827 Philip S Thomas (C) 4326 Interventions; Tara Gopaldas (F) 3671

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HIV/AIDS and Orphans; Avanjali Sathpathy CHRISTIANITY 1676. Part I; Richard Grove and (LE) 3626 Papal Reflections; Rudolf C Heredia (C) 4013 Vinita Damodaran (SA) 4345 Human Trafficking Convicting the Victims CHRISTIANS Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and (Ed) 172 Brown Is Black by This Code; GPD (C) 2514 Environmental Change: Origins and I Lost My Children: Making Children CITIZENSHIP Evolution of Global Environmental Invisible in Demolitions; Radhika Iyengar The Subaltern as Subaltern Citizen; History, 1676. Part II; Richard Grove (C) 2416 Gyanendra Pandey (F) 4735 and Vinita Damodaran (SA) 4497 ICDS and Right to Food; George Kent (D) 4702 CIVIC SOCIETY Making of a City; Sharit K Bhowmik Infant and Young Child Feeding: An ‘Docile’ Bodies, ‘Good’ Citizens or (BR) 3506 ‘Optimal’ Approach; Arun Gupta (F) 3666 ‘Agential’ Subjects? Pedagogy and Many Threats of a Story; Seemanthini Infant Survival: A Political Challenge; Citizenship in Contemporary Society; Niranjana (BR) 5050 (F) 3657 Meenakshi Thapan (SA) 4195 Nationalism and Social Reform; Neeraj Mathematics and Tribal Children; CIVIL SOCIETY Hatekar (BR) 485 Minati Panda (C) 117 Civil Society and Democratic Space in Notions of Modernity; Jaideep Chatterjee Primary Education as a Fundamental Right: Russia; Archana Upadhyay (C) 4651 (BR) 4583 Cost Implications; S Chandrasekhar and Pakistan: Civil and Uncivil Society; Only One Word, Properly Altered: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (SA) 3797 S Akbar Zaidi (F) 3556 Gandhi and the Question of the Rethinking ICDS: A Rights Based Transparency and the Natural Environment; Prostitute; Ajay Skaria (SA) 5065 Perspective; Dipa Sinha (F) 3689 Misha Singh and Shekhar Singh (P) 1440 Roots of Agrarian Crisis in Interwar India: Tamil Nadu: ICDS with a Difference; Who Speaks for the Governed? Retrieving a Narrative; Tirthankar Roy Anuradha Khati Rajivan (F) 3684 World Summit on Information Society, (SA) 5389 Universalisation of ICDS and Community Civil Society and the Limits of Trade and Empire Building; Lakshmi Health Worker Programmes: Lessons ‘Multistakeholderism’; Subramanian (BR) 1447 from Chhattisgarh; T Sundararaman Paula Chakravartty (SA) 250 Western Secularism and Colonial Legacy (F) 3674 CIVIL WAR in India; Himanshu Roy (SA) 158 Universalisation with Quality: ICDS in a Globalisation and War in Ivory Coast; COMMERCIAL CROPS Rights Perspective; Jean Dreze (SA) 3706 Peter Custers (C) 1844 Diversification towards High Value CHINA Sri Lanka: Not Seeing the Writing; Agriculture: Role of Urbanisation and The ‘Demographic Dividend’ and Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 4932 Infrastructure; P K Joshi; P Parthasarathy Young India’s Economic Future; CO-OPERATIVES Rao and P S Birthal (SA) 2747 C P Chandrasekhar; Jayati Ghosh and Angara and Koyyalagudem: Marketing in COMMODITY PRICES Anamitra Roychowdhury (SA) 5055 Handloom Cooperatives; P Dharmaraju Essential Commodities: Demats and The ‘Ides’ of April: Lessons from Nepal; (F) 3385 Imports as Panacea (Ed) 3552 Sumanta Banerjee (C) 1831 Cooperatives Recipe for Revival (Ed) 668 COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES Assessing China`s Reforms; Han Yuhai Reviving Cooperative Credit Institutions: ‘Environmental Subjects’ in Kumaon Forests; (P) 2206 Implementation Issues; M S Sriram (C) 298 J Martinez-Alier (BR) 1773 China Rise of the Communist Youth League; COAL INDUSTRY Democratic Management of Common Junfei Wu (C) 1172 Death by Mining (Ed) 3911 Property in Goa: From ‘Gaonkarias’ and China’s Power Sector: Shortages Complicate COFFEE INDUSTRY ‘Communidades’ to Gram Sabhas; Reforms; Sunil Mathrani (C) 193 Analysis of Farmer Suicides in Kerala; Sharon D’Cruz and Avinash V Raikar China, India and the World Economy; S Mohana Kumar and R K Sharma (F) 1553 (SA) 439 T N Srinivasan (SA) 3716 COLONIAL RULE Tapping Local Resources to Increase Cross-Country Comparisons of Software From 50 Years Ago (June 2, 1956): Panchayat Incomes; Subroto Dhar Growth; M Vijayabaskar (BR) 1345 Trans Quits India (Ed) 2177 (SA) 1371 Development Concerns: China and India; COLONIALISM Un-making the ‘Commons’; J J Roy Burman Anjani K Kochak (C) 3565 Ambivalence of Social Consciousness: (BR) 1632 Dragon as Exemplar? Beware Convenient Inter-Community Relations in Modern COMMONWEALTH Uses of China Model; India; Sudhir Chandra (P) 397 Andhra Pradesh: Institutional Apathy Mathew C J Rudolph (D) 655 Business Conduct in Late Colonial India: towards Undertrial Prisoners; Faux Pas in Foreign Policy; GPD (C) 1740 European Business in Kanpur 1900-1939; K Murali (C) 3936 Missing ‘Small Happinesses’; Mohan Rao Biswajit Chatterjee and COMMUNAL VIOLENCE (BR) 1777 Manali Chakrabarti (SA) 904 ‘Sisters under the Skin’: Events of 2002 Movements in the Exchange Rate: Trends in Debating Reform in Colonial India; and Girls’ Education in Ahmedabad; New Indices of Nominal and Effective Gwilym Beckerlegge (BR) 407 Suchitra Sheth and Haeems Nina (SA) 1708 Rates; EPW Research Foundation Democratic Management of Common Best Bakery Case Welcome Judgment (MMR) 178 Property in Goa: From ‘Gaonkarias’ and (Ed) 768 Revisiting FDI in China; D N Ghosh (D) 1213 ‘Communidades’ to Gram Sabhas; Sharon Danger of False Clarities: Scrutiny of Settlements and Disputes: China’s D’Cruz and Avinash V Raikar (SA) 439 ‘Terrorism’ in Sri Lanka; Approach to Territorial Issues; Entangled Histories; Anjali Arondekar Nira Wickramasinghe (C) 2285 Neville Maxwell (SA) 3873 (BR) 3409 Inside Gujarat’s Relief Colonies: Surviving SEZ Frenzy (Ed) 4095 Haunting Memories: Is There More to the State Hostility and Denial; Harsh Mander Trade Liberalisation and Environmental History of Vande Mataram than (F) 5235 Protection: Responses of Leather Ananda Math? Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan Justice: Crime and Acquittal (Ed) 845 Industry in Brazil, China and India; (D) 4621 Manto’s Open It: Engendering Partition U Sankar (SA) 2470 Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and Narratives; Shreey Chand (C) 308 Women’s Studies in China Today; Environmental Change: Origins and Mumbai Crimes: Justice Denied (Ed) 3996 Ravni Thakur (SA) 4455 Evolution of Global Environmental History, Restorative Justice; B Rajeshwari (LE) 1222

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Zahira Shaikh ‘Victim’ of Justice; Uma West Bengal: Land Acquisition and CONGRESS PARTY Chakravarti; Nirantar; Saheli Sama; Peasant Resistance at Singur; Assam Identity as Strategy (Ed) 1492 Farah Naqvi and Pratiksha Baxi (LE) 934 Parthasarathi Banerjee (C) 4718 Assam New Equations and Uneasy Alliances; COMMUNALISM Women’s Studies in China Today; Udayon Misra (C) 2291 Gujarat Intolerance of the Benign (Ed) 1825 Ravni Thakur (SA) 4455 The Bofors Story Subversion of Investigation Inadequate Analysis; Joya Chatterji (BR) 4037 COMMUNISTS (Ed) 372 COMMUNICATION MEDIA From the Ramparts; A K Dasgupta (LE) 3742 Coalitions and Elections (Ed) 1823 Cartoon Protests: Religion and Freedom COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Dasmunshi’s Delusions; A G Noorani (CL) 5100 (Ed) 536 Culture, Development and the Cultural Electoral Politics in Post-Conflict Societies: The Constitution and Journalists’ Sources; Capital of Farce: The Musahar Community Case of Punjab; Praveen Priyadarshi and A G Noorani (CL) 2964 in Bihar; Arun Kumar (SA) 4281 Neera Chandhoke (SA) 811 The Media: Politics, Ethics and the Law; COMPANIES Empowerment, Co-option and Domination: A G Noorani (BR) 483 Bajaj Auto, Ispat Industries, GTL; Politics of Maharashtra’s Employment The New Political Vocabulary; EPW Research Foundation 851 Guarantee Scheme; Sujata Patel (F) 5126 M S Prabhakara (C) 560 Ballarpur Industries, Zuari Industries, From 50 Years Ago (August 11, 1956): COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals; Electoral Marriage (Ed) 3449 Telecommunications and Growth: Causal EPW Research Foundation 176 From 50 Years Ago (January 7, 1956): Model, Quantitative and Qualitative Bharat Petroleum, Indo Gulf Fertilisers, Dualism in Congress (Ed) 5 Evidence; Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Godfrey Phillips India; EPW Research From 50 Years Ago (January, 1956): Varadharajan Sridhar (SA) 2611 Foundation 10 Crisis within Congress (Ed) 293 COMMUNIST PARTIES Hindalco Industries, Shrenuj and Company, From 50 Years Ago (May 19, 1956: Assembly Polls 2006 A Foregone Outcome in Clariant India; EPW Research Dream and Reality (Ed) 1937 Kerala? P S Nirmala (C) 866 Foundation 540 From 50 Years Ago (September 29, 1956): Assembly Polls 2006 Elections, Jatra Style, Infosys Technologies,Gujarat Alkalies The Campaign Starts (Ed) 4097 in West Bengal; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 864 and Chemicals, JBF Industries; From 50 Years Ago (September 8, 1956): Bahujan Samaj Party: Kanshi Ram’s Legacy EPW Research Foundation 376 Cabinet Reshuffle (Ed) 3829 (Ed) 4304 Jindal Stainless, Videsh Sanchar Nigam, Incumbency and Parliamentary Elections in Churning of the Social Base (Ed) 1935 Indraprastha Gas; EPW Research India: An Analysis of the Congress Party’s Economic Man, the Fourth Estate and Foundation 1152 Electoral Performance, 1962-1999; CPI(M) in Kerala; K T Rammohan Jindal Vijaynagar Steel, Mangalore Refinery Vani Kant Borooah (SA) 739 (C) 3649 and Petrochemicals; EPW Research Is Local Really Better? Comparing EGS Kerala a Left Turn; K G Kumar (C) 2051 Foundation 1228 and Locally-Managed Rural Works Kerala Elections and After; K Haridas (C) 2053 Maruti Udyog Smooth Drive, Goodlass Programmes in Nasik District; Left Front’s 2006 Victory in West Bengal: Nerolac Paints Market Leader, DCW Sanjay Savale (F) 5133 Continuity or a Trendsetter? Lagging Behind; EPW Research Jammu and Kashmir Changed Political Bidyut Chakrabarty (SA) 3521 Foundation 672 Scenario; Rekha Chowdhary and Left Front’s Electoral Victory in West Bengal: Nicholas Piramal India, Nirma, Mahavir V Nagendra Rao (C) 1963 An Ethnographer’s Account; Dayabati Roy Spinning Mills; EPW Research Left Front’s Electoral Victory in West Bengal: and Parhta Sarathi Banerjee (F) 4251 Foundation 88 An Ethnographer’s Account; Left Front’s Victory; Siddhartha Ghosh Shipping Corporation of India, Voltas, Dayabati Roy and Parhta Sarathi Dastidar (LE) 2398 Raymond; EPW Research Foundation 458 Banerjee (F) 4251 Making of a ‘New Nepal’; Rita Manchanda TVS Motor Company, Dr Reddy’s Municipal Elections in Uttar Pradesh; (C) 5034 Laboratories, Rashtriya Chemicals A K Verma (C) 5218 Maoist Movement- I; Daya Varma (LE) 4302 and Fertilisers; EPW Research Narayan, Thou Hast Done the Maoist Movement- II; K N Ramachandran Foundation 773 Extraordinary!; GPD (F) 5215 (LE) 4302 Wippro Ltd, McDowell and Co, Sesa Goa; Tamil Nadu New Times Ahead; Nepal Historic Deal (Ed) 2692 EPW Research Foundation 296 M S S Pandian (C) 2181 Nepal Hope Again (Ed) 1225 COMPANY LAW Upswing of Congress Party? (Ed) 3627 On the ‘Comprehensive Peace Agreement’ Industrial Sickness: Trends and Patterns; Uttar Pradesh: Congress Illusion (Ed) 3744 in Nepal; Azad (LE) 5094 Rosemary K Abraham and G Omkarnath Vande Mataram: Whose Legacy? (Ed) 3828 Peasant Hares and Capitalist Hounds of (SA) 4161 West Bengal: Land Acquisition and Singur; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5296 COMPENSATION Peasant Resistance at Singur; Political Economy of West Bengal: A Puzzle Unequal Compensation to Victims; Parthasarathi Banerjee (C) 4718 and a Hypothesis; Abhirup Sarkar Iqbal A Ansari (LE) 3994 CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (SA) 341 COMPETITION Ayodhya and India’s Mahabharat: A Significant Turn (Ed) 4711 Amending India’s Competition Act; Constitutional Issues and Proprieties; Social Transformation and Political Power: Aditya Bhattacharjea (C) 4314 Madhav Godbole (RA) 2072 Maoists in Nepal; Saroj Giri (SA) 2147 Competition in Indian Manufacturing Constitutional Separation Strained (Ed) 4631 Suffrage in West Bengal; AM (C) 2048 Industries: A Mobility Analysis; Police and the Constitution; A G Noorani Through the Eyes of the Police: Naxalites in K Pushpangadan and N Shanta (SA) 4130 (C) 1163 Calcutta in the 1970s; Ashoke Kumar Manufacturing Competitiveness; Section 377 and the Dignity of Indian Mukhopadhyay (SA) 3227 V Govindarajan (LE) 4226 Homosexuals; Alok Gupta (SA) 4815 Trail Blazed by Naxalbari Uprising; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Some Constitutional Dilemmas; Dipankar Bhattacharya (D) 5191 Evaluation of Computerisation of Land Ramaswamy R Iyer (P) 2064 Uttar Pradesh: Congress Illusion (Ed) 3744 Records in Karnataka: A Study from CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Way Forward for Left in Latin America? Gulbarga District; A P Singh and Primitive Accumulation and Urban Renewal; Sujatha Fernandes (F) 3344 Manoj Ahuja (SA) 69 Itty Abraham (C) 1412

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CONSUMER EXPENDITURE Increasing Concentration of Banking UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention; A Call for Social Ecology; Michael Lewis Operations: Top Centres and Retail Loans; Krishna Ravi Srinivas (C) 868 (BR) 5052 EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1113 CURRICULUM Inflation Targeting: Much Ado about Investment Credit to Agriculture; Mathematics and Tribal Children; Something; Deena Khatkhate (F) 5031 Bhupat M Desai (C) 693 Minati Panda (C) 117 CONSUMER GOODS Is Not the Current Growth Cycle Driven by DABHOL PROJECT A Call for Social Ecology; Michael Lewis Bank Credit? EPW Research Foundation Aftershocks of Dabhol Power Project; (BR) 5052 (MMR) 4840 Madhav Godbole and E A S Sarma (C) 3640 CONTRACT LABOUR Is the Role of Banks as Financial Enron Scandals and Governance (Ed) 2176 Contract Labour in Karnataka: Emerging Intermediaries Decreasing? A Helicopter Revival of Dabhol Power Project; V Issues and Options; Meenakshi Rajeev Tour; A S Ramasastri and Ranganathan (LE) 4094 (SA) 2086 N K Unnikrishnan (SA) 1063 DAIRY INDUSTRY COOKING GAS CREDIT RATING Milkman of India; B S Baviskar (BR) 2455 Budget Proposal The LPG Dialectic (Ed) 936 Internal Credit Rating Practices of Indian DALAI LAMA CORPORATE FRAUDS Banks; M Jayadev (F) 1069 India-China Border Dispute: Centrality of Enron Scandals and Governance (Ed) 2176 CRICKET Tibet; Arijit Mazumdar (C) 4324 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Indian Cricket as Synecdoche for Our Times; DALITS Corporate Governance Codes in India; Vikram Bedi (C) 2520 After Khairlanji: Dalits and the State Lalita S Som (SA) 4153 CRIMINAL LAW (Ed) 5020 Enron Scandals and Governance (Ed) 2176 Rights, Reforms and Justice: An Essential Atrocities on Dalits: What the District Level Executive Compensation, Firm Performance Handbook; K S Subramanian (BR) 621 Data Say on Society-State Complicity; and Governance: An Empirical Analysis; CROP INSURANCE Debashis Chakraborty; D Shyam Babu Aditya Parthasarathy; Krishnakumar Crop Insurance in India: Scope for and Manashi Chakravorty (SA) 2478 Menon and Debashish Bhattacherjee Improvement; V S Vyas and Surjit Singh Caste Indignities and Subjected (SA) 4139 (SA) 4585 Personhoods; A R Vasavi (P) 3766 CORPORATE SECTOR CUBA Caste Punishment; M V Nadkarni (LE) 4926 Corporate Greed and People’s Livelihood; Trade Treaties and US Hegemony in the Culture, Development and the Cultural Hiren Gohain (LE) 4926 Americas; Sujatha Fernandes (C) 1954 Capital of Farce: The Musahar Community Performance of Non-Government With or Without Fidel: Future of the in Bihar; Arun Kumar (SA) 4281 Non-Financial Private Limited Companies; Cuban Revolution; Sujatha Fernandes Dalits: Prejudice in Institutions (Ed) 4392 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 375 (F) 4007 An Enigma Called Kanshi Ram; CORRUPTION CULTURAL CHANGES Anand Teltumbde (C) 4531 The Bofors Story Subversion of Investigation Identity across Boundaries; Karen Leonard An Ideology of and for the ‘Many’; GPD (Ed) 372 (BR) 1630 (F) 4529 Public Spending, Outcomes and CULTURAL STUDIES Judicial Pronouncements and Caste; Accountability: Citizen Report Card as a Culture, Development and the Cultural Rakesh Shukla (C) 4411 Catalyst for Public Action; Samuel Paul Capital of Farce: The Musahar Community Kherlanji: Caste Violence (Ed) 4632 (SA) 333 in Bihar; Arun Kumar (SA) 4281 The Mad Violence; GPD (F) 5030 COTTON Interrogating the ‘Region’; Sanghamitra Misra Memories, Saffronising Statues and Bt Cotton; Vivek Cariappa (LE) 4088 (BR) 2542 Constructing Communal Politics; Bt Cotton in India: Sustainable Pest Multiculturalism at Risk: The Indian Badri Narayan (SA) 4695 Management? Kavitha Kuruganti and Minority in ; Vinay Lal (C) 3764 Muslims and Dalits as Subalterns; G V Ramanjaneyulu (C) 561 Occidentalism, the Very Idea: An Essay on Prachi Deshpande (BR) 3701 Is Bt Cotton Cultivation Economically Viable the Enlightenment and Enchantment; The Time of the Dalit Conversion; for Indian Farmers? An Empirical Analysis; Akeel Bilgrami (SA) 3591 Gyanendra Pandey (SA) 1779 A Narayanamoorthy and CULTURE Voices on Untouchability; S S Kalamkar (SA) 2716 Beyond Blueprints; Bodhisattva Kar (BR) 804 Vijaya Ramaswamy (BR) 2708 Options Trading in Commodities; Cinema School Days; Amrit Gangar (BR) 4673 Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: Madhoo Pavaskar (C) 3150 Culture, Identity and International Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; Organic Cotton Supply Chains and Small Relations; Rajan Harshe (P) 3945 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 4261 Producers: Governance, Participation and How Modern Are We? Cultural DAMS Strategies; Sukhpal Singh (SA) 5359 Contradictions of India’s Modernity; 50 Years Ago (5 August 2006) (Ed) 3341 CRAFTSMEN Meera Nanda (SA) 491 The Bank Comes Full Circle; Mihir Shah Anokhi: In the Craft of Block-Printing; Looking through the Purdah; Indrani Sen (BR) 2201 Adarsh Kumar (F) 3371 (BR) 1775 Bhakra Nangal and the Green Revolution; Mangalagiri: Case Study of Master Weavers; Maharashtra Politics of Frustrations, Ramaswamy R Iyer (LE) 2 B Syamasundari and Seemanthini Anxieties and Outrage; Rajeshwari Dams and Displacement Alternative Niranjana (F) 3377 Deshpande (C) 1304 Restructuring of the Sardar Sarovar: Rehwa: Maheshwari Handloom Weavers; Monkey, Wine and Culture; GPD (C) 185 Breaking the Deadlock; Suhas Paranjape Nikhil Mathur (F) 3382 A New Cultural Chauvinism; GPD (C) 775 and K J Joy (F) 601 CREDIT Romancing Material Culture in Urban Public Dams and Displacement Major Loss, Basel II and Bank Lending Behaviour: Some Spaces: The Case of Valentine’s Day in Minor Gain: Polavaram Project in AP; Likely Implications for Monetary Policy; Pune; Rohini Sahni and V Kalyan Shankar R V Rama Mohan (F) 604 Partha Ray; Saibal Ghosh and (SA) 649 Dams and Displacement When Multiple D M Nachane (SA) 1053 Secularism, Religiosity and Popular Culture: Conflicts Overlap: Haribad Project in CREDIT POLICY Chennai’s Roadside Temples; U Kalpagam Madhya Pradesh; Rehmat and Shripad Buying Time (Ed) 1491 (SA) 4595 Dharmadhikary (F) 603

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Micro-Level Disputes: Gravity Dam in Fulfilling the Promise in Nepal; Breaking the Deadlock; Suhas Paranjape Trouble: Forest Officials Who Missed the Kirsty Hughes (C) 1830 and K J Joy (F) 601 Wood for the Trees; Nandita Singh and Kashmir: Sidelining the Separatists; Dams and Displacement Major Loss, Chandan Sinha (F) 594 Balraj Puri (C) 4017 Minor Gain: Polavaram Project in AP; Unravelling Bhakra; Shripad Making of a ‘New Nepal’; Rita Manchanda R V Rama Mohan (F) 604 Dharmadhikary (D) 285 (C) 5034 Dams and Displacement When Multiple DEFENCE EXPENDITURE Official Truth as Judicial Truth, via the Conflicts Overlap: Haribad Project in From 50 Years Ago (April 28, 1956): Media; Subhendu Dasgupta (BR) 3206 Madhya Pradesh; Rehmat and Shripad Who Fathers the Plan? (Ed) 1601 Pakistan’s Absent Democracy; Dharmadhikary (F) 603 India’s Defence Budgeting: Lessons Not S M Naseem (D) 756 Death Knell in the Narmada Valley; Learnt; Amaresh Bagchi (RA) 5321 Pakistan: General in His Labyrinth; Betwa Sharma (C) 5224 Shrinking Horizon of an Expanding Arif Azad (C) 3941 Development through Dismemberment of Economy: India’s Military Spending; Pakistan: Thinking about Regime Change: the Weak: Threat of Polavaram Project; Gautam Navlakha (C) 1338 The Duck Loses Its Gait; Haris Gazdar N Subba Reddy (F) 1430 DEFORESTATION (F) 3455 Displacement and Rehabilitation: A Forest Bill 2005 and Tribal Areas: Case of The State, Democracy and Global Justice; Comparison of Two Policy Drafts; Jharkhand; Ritambhara Hebbar (F) 4952 Vidhu Verma (SA) 3728 Shekhar Singh (C) 5307 DELHI US: Mid-term Lessons (Ed) 4712 Forest Bill 2005 and Tribal Areas: ‘Better to Have Died Than to Live Like This’: Why Blame the Military? S Akbar Zaidi Case of Jharkhand; Ritambhara Hebbar Women and Evictions in Delhi; Kalyani (F) 4642 (F) 4952 Menon-Sen (P) 1969 DEMOGRAPHY Gendering Oral History of Partition: Condoning Unplanned Development: The ‘Demographic Dividend’ and Interrogating Patriarchy; Reviewing the Khanna Committee Report; Young India’s Economic Future; Anjali Bhardwaj Datta (F) 2229 Ashok Kumar (C) 4105 C P Chandrasekhar; Jayati Ghosh and Inside Gujarat’s Relief Colonies: Surviving Delhi: Regulating a City (Ed) 4097 Anamitra Roychowdhury (SA) 5055 State Hostility and Denial; Harsh Mander From 50 Years Ago (April 7, 1956): The Microcosm in Demography; (F) 5235 When Delhi Goes Red... (Ed) 1301 Maithreyi Krishnaraj (BR) 4342 Internally Displaced Persons in India’s In the City, Out of Place: Environment and Riddle of Population Growth: Deceleration North-East; Monirul Hussain (C) 391 Modernity, Delhi 1860s to 1960s; in Andhra Pradesh during 1991-2001; Land Question in Assam: A Short Note; Awadhendra Sharan (SA) 4905 Sanjay Kumar and N K Sharma (SA) 4507 Hiren Gohain (C) 3459 Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Tribal Demography; Arjan de Haan (BR) 327 The Last Journey: Exploring Social Class Households; Arup Mitra (SA) 2123 DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS in the 1947 Partition Migration; Sky Above, Mud Below: Slum Demolition Dancing with Neoliberals; Balakrishnan Ravinder Kaur (F) 2221 and Urban Cleansing; C R Sridhar (C) 2529 Pulapre (BR) 1448 Narmada and the Myth of Rehabilitation; Story of a Hiss: Water Scarcity and the Development Economics: Old, New and Mike Levien (F) 3581 Need for Reform; N Vijay Jagannathan Newer; Ilene Grabel (BR) 3002 Orissa Draft Resettlement and (D) 925 No Separate ‘Development Economics’; Rehabilitation Policy, 2006; Unorganised Labour: Delhi’s Twin Tragedies; Bernard D’Mello (BR) 1977 Manipadma Jena (C) 384 Moushumi Basu (C) 784 On Intuition in Development Economics; People’s Movement at Kalinga Nagar: An Urban Transport in Mumbai: Two Choices Narendar Pani (D) 1481 Epitaph or an Epitome? Banikanta Mishra for the Future; Sudhir P Badami (C) 4724 Tribute Hans Singer (1910-2006): (C) 551 Who Changed Delhi’s Air? Urvashi Narain Doyen of Development Economics; State Responses to Displacement; and Ruth Greenspan Bell (SA) 1584 Rameshwar Tandon (C) 1176 Jayant Sriram (BR) 39 DEMOCRACY DIGITAL LIBRARIES Tribal Land Alienation in Andhra Pradesh: The ‘Ides’ of April: Lessons from Nepal; Web Library; Aman Kumar Jha (LE) 660 Processes, Impacts and Policy Concerns; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 1831 DIRECT TAXES S Laxman Rao; Priya Deshingkar and Bamako Appeal: A Good Beginning (Ed) 1732 From 50 Years Ago (March 3, 1956): John Farrington (SA) 5401 Bangladesh: ‘Home-Grown’ Democracy; Deshmukh and Direct Taxes (Ed) 770 Underdevelopment and Naxal Movement; Moazzem Hossain (C) 791 DISARMAMENT Rajat Kumar Kujur (C) 557 Broadbasing of Indian Democracy; North Korea Test as Spur to Nuclear DMK C K Vishwanath (LE) 3440 Disarmament; Ramesh Thakur (C) 4403 Assembly Elections Changing Dynamics Civil Society and Democratic Space in DISASTER MANAGEMENT in Tamil Nadu; V Krishna Ananth (C) 1232 Russia; Archana Upadhyay (C) 4651 Disaster Management Act, 2005: A Disaster Coalitions and Elections (Ed) 1823 Decentralisation and Democracy; in Waiting? Subhradipta Sarkar and Tamil Nadu: Lessons for the Future (Ed) 1936 Yamini Aiyar (BR) 4873 Archana Sarma (C) 3760 Tamil Nadu: More Stars than Ever; Democracy Contained; Saroj Giri (C) 1752 DISASTERS, NATURAL Rajan Krishnan (C) 2414 Democracy, Disagreement and Merit; Disaster Management Act, 2005: A Disaster Tamil Nadu: New Times Ahead; Pratap Bhanu Mehta (F) 2425 in Waiting? Subhradipta Sarkar and M S S Pandian (C) 2181 Dynamics of a Working Democracy: Archana Sarma (C) 3760 Television in Tamil Nadu Politics; Representative Politics in a Goa DISINVESTMENT Maya Ranganathan (C) 4947 Constituency; Peter Ronald deSouza; At a Standstill (Ed) 3263 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Sushma Pawar; Solano Da Silva and Audit Reports on Disinvestment; A Difficult Match: Women’s Actions and Edzia Carvalho (SA) 1574 B P Mathur (F) 5114 Legal Institutions in the Face of Election Commission and Functioning of Privatisation in India; Anil K Makhija (F) 1947 Domestic Violence; A Suneetha and Democracy; Manjari Katju (P) 1635 DISPLACEMENT Vasudha Nagaraj (SA) 4355 From 50 Years Ago (September 1, 1956): Dams and Displacement Alternative DRAMA AND STAGE SHOW Price-Page Schedule (Ed) 3745 Restructuring of the Sardar Sarovar: Monkey, Wine and Culture; GPD (C) 185

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Ritual Enactments in a Hindi ‘Mythological’: Botswana: Growth sans Development; Is Not the Current Growth Cycle Driven by Betab’s Mahabharat in Parsi Theatre; P Mohanan Pillai (C) 2301 Bank Credit? EPW Research Foundation Kathryn Hansen (SA) 4985 Budget 2006 Outlays, Inequality and (MMR) 4840 DRINKING WATER Growth; Errol D’Souza (C) 857 Is Pakistan Shining? S Akbar Zaidi (C) 1611 Contending Water Uses: Social Budget and Growth; M Suresh Babu (C) 1967 Japanese Economic Recovery and the Undercurrents in a Water-Scarce Village; A Call for Paradigm Shift: From Competition Macroeconomic Policy Mix; Anjal Prakash and R K Sama (F) 577 to Cooperation; Gopal Krishan (C) 872 Sukanya Bose (SA) 3535 Desalination in Chennai: What About the China, India and the World Economy; A Model of Exports and Investment in Poor and the Environment? T N Srinivasan (SA) 3716 an Open Developing Economy; Gregor Meerganz von Medeazza (C) 949 Dancing with Neoliberals; Balakrishnan Rajiv Jha (SA) 820 Story of a Hiss: Water Scarcity and the Need Pulapre (BR) 1448 More Light on a Miracle; J C Sandesara for Reform; N Vijay Jagannathan (D) 925 Development Characteristics of Some (BR) 4123 DROUGHT Selected Countries; EPW Research Neoliberalism in Egypt’s Informal Economy; Drought, Agricultural Risk and Rural Foundation (CS) 772 Sarasij Majumder (BR) 3863 Income: Case of a Water Limiting Rice Development Concerns: China and India; Optimising FDI Benefits; N S Siddharthan Production Environment, Tamil Nadu; Anjani K Kochak (C) 3565 (BR) 1248 K N Selvaraj and C Ramasamy (SA) 2739 Development with Dignity (Ed) 843 Orthodox Economic Policies of the Lula Elite Politics and Maharashtra’s Employment Diffusion of Development; Prabhat Patnaik Administration; Marcelo Dias Carcanholo Guarantee Scheme; Vishal Jadhav (F) 5157 (P) 1766 (F) 679 Guaranteed Employment and Gender Ecological Embeddedness of the Economy: Pakistan: Thinking about Regime Change: Construction: Women’s Mobilisation in A Socioecological Perspective on The Duck Loses Its Gait; Haris Gazdar Maharashtra; Anurekha Chari (F) 5141 Humanity’s Economic Activities (F) 3455 Political Economy of State Response to 1700-2000; Helmut Haberl; Fridolin Policy Space in Historical Perspective with Drought in Rajasthan, 2000-03; Krausmann and Simone Gingrich (SA) 4896 Special Reference to Trade and Industrial Reetika Khera (SA) 5163 Economic Growth and Employment in Policies; Ha-Joon Chang (SA) 627 EARTHQUAKES Labour-Surplus Economies; Politics of Economic Growth in India, Making of a Disaster; Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Ajit K Ghose (SA) 3430 1980-2005: Part I – The 1980s; Atul Kohli (C) 479 Economic Growth and Human Development (SA) 1251 EAST BENGAL in Indian States; Madhusudan Ghosh Politics of Economic Growth in India, From 50 Years Ago (March 24, 1956): (SA) 3321 1980-2005: Part II – The 1990s and Beyond; No Place for Na-Paks! (Ed) 1149 Economic Growth in Independent India: Atul Kohli (SA) 1361 EAST INDIA COMPANY Lumbering Elephant or Running Tiger? Power of Finance (Ed) 5095 Trade and Empire Building; Lakshmi Deepak Nayyar (SA) 1451 A Questionable Account; J C Sandesara Subramanian (BR) 1447 Economic Growth in South Asia: Promising, (BR) 4670 ECOLOGY Unequalising, Sustainable? Shantayanan Regional Structures, Growth and Distributional Inequities and Resource Use Devarajan and Ijaz Nabi (P) 3573 Convergence of Income in Maharashtra; Behaviour: Political Economy of ‘Ecological Economic Growth in the Regime of Reforms: Abdul Shaban (SA) 1803 Divide’ in Pakistan; Tarique Niazi (SA) 4273 Kerala’s Experience; K K Subrahmanian A Rejoinder to a Sceptical Note; IRLP or the Ecological Approach to Rivers? (P) 885 C S Deshpande (LE) 3910 Nazrul Islam (F) 1693 Economic Growth, Labour Markets and : The Miracle Unmasked; Jammu and Kashmir: Pilgrim’s Progress Gender in ; Uma Rani (SA) 4369 Eric Toussaint (SA) 4211 Causes Regression; Gautam Navlakha Economic Growth: Some Reflections; Stock-Flow Norms and Systemic Stability; (C) 2975 Shankar Acharya (P) 4573 Romar Correa (SA) 1059 Mangrove Conservation Efforts and the Economic Survey 2005-06: Disregard of Unorthodox Economics; Ashwini Deshpande Local Economy: A Case Study; the Downside (Ed) 769 (BR) 3505 Rajarshi Mitra; Rabindra N Bhattacharya; Economy Exceptional Growth (Ed) 453 ECONOMIC HISTORY Sugata Hazra and S C Santra (SA) 3612 The Economy: Changing Tracks; Towards Universalism: A Historiographical Whither ‘Community-Based’ Conservation? Rajiv Jha (C) 5109 Advance; Rajat Kanta Ray (BR) 4035 Chetan Kumar (P) 5313 Globalisation and Economic Transformation ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC COOPERATION in a Peripheral Economy: The Bangladesh Debt, Hegemony and Globalisation; A Call for Paradigm Shift: From Competition Experience; Anu Muhammad (SA) 1459 Ramaa Vasudevan (BR) 710 to Cooperation; Gopal Krishan (C) 872 Growth sans Development; ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC CRIMES M K Sukumaran Nair (D) 5283 Assessing China’s Reforms; Han Yuhai Money Laundering in Perspective; Homage to Deficit Reduction (Ed) 767 (P) 2206 Praful Bidwai (BR) 330 Indian Economic Reform: A Philosopher’s From 50 Years Ago (June 23, 1956): ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Stone; Deena Khatkhate (BR) 2203 Life Force Overwhelms (Ed) 2401 Insights into Economic Geography; Inflation Targeting: International From 50 Years Ago (June 23, 1956): Ajay Shah (BR) 1520 Experience and Prospects for India; Little Planning Wagtail (Ed) 2509 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Kanhaiya Singh (F) 2958 From 50 Years Ago (June 23, 1956): The ‘Demographic Dividend’ and Insights into Economic Geography; The Travail of Planning (Ed) 2693 Young India’s Economic Future; Ajay Shah (BR) 1520 India Economic Summit; Manu N Kulkarni C P Chandrasekhar; Jayati Ghosh and An Integrated Totality; Prabhat Patnaik (LE) 5202 Anamitra Roychowdhury (SA) 5055 (BR) 891 Indian Economic Reform: A Philosopher’s Assessing China’s Reforms; Han Yuhai Is India Ripe for Integrated Water Resources Stone; Deena Khatkhate (BR) 2203 (P) 2206 Management? Fitting Water Policy to Orthodox Economic Policies of the Lula At the Threshold of 10 Per Cent Economic National Development Context; Tushaar Administration; Marcelo Dias Carcanholo Growth? Parthasarathi Shome (C) 943 Shah and Barbara van Koppen (SA) 3413 (F) 679

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Policy Space in Historical Perspective with Policies and Programmes for Employment; Empowering Soliga Tribes: ‘Sudarshan Special Reference to Trade and Industrial S Mahendra Dev (P) 1511 Model’ of Karnataka; Ashish Bose (C) 564 Policies; Ha-Joon Chang (SA) 627 Politics of Economic Growth in India, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics; Reinventing Fiscal Policy; Romar Correa 1980-2005: Part II – The 1990s and K L Krishna; Sujata Patel; M Govinda Rao; (F) 2282 Beyond; Atul Kohli (SA) 1361 Amaresh Bagchi; Romar Correa; South Korea: The Miracle Unmasked; A Practitioner’s Perspective; Vijay L Kelkar; Suresh D Tendulkar; Eric Toussaint (SA) 4211 Abheek Barua (F) 1875 Jean Dreze; A Vaidyanathan; R M Honavar; When Did the ‘Hindu’ Rate of Growth End? A Questionable Account; J C Sandesara Narendra Jadhav; R Radhakrishna; Baldev Raj Nayar (P) 1885 (BR) 4670 Mihir Rakshit and Partha Sen (LE) 934 ECONOMIC REFORMS Sustaining Agricultural Trade: Policy and Impact of Economic Reforms on Social Sector The 1999 Brazilian Financial Crisis: Impact; Dhanmanjiri Sathe and Expenditure in India; Seema Joshi (SA) 358 ‘Macho-Monetarism’ in Action; R S Deshpande (SA) 5337 Income Differentials and Returns to Gabriel Palma (SA) 727 When Did the ‘Hindu’ Rate of Growth End? Education; Laveesh Bhandari and Assessing China’s Reforms; Han Yuhai Baldev Raj Nayar (P) 1885 Mridusmita Bordoloi (SA) 3893 (P) 2206 Why Capital Account Convertibility in Islamic Education for Girls; Capital Inflows during the India Is Premature; John Williamson Yoginder Sikand (BR) 3774 Post-Liberalisation Period; Indrani (F) 1848 Letters (03 June 2006); Lon W McDaniel Chakraborty (SA) 143 ECONOMIC RESEARCH and Jameel Pasha (LE) 2174 Case against Rushing into Full Capital Gokhale Institute; P R Dubhashi (LE) 1484 Literacy and Education; Account Convertibility; Partha Sen (F) 1853 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics; Vimala Ramachandran (C) 4853 Changing Labour Institutions; K L Krishna; Sujata Patel; M Govinda Rao; Madrasas Misunderstood; Arshad Alam K R Shyam Sundar (BR) 204 Amaresh Bagchi; Romar Correa; (LE) 370 Convertibility: Brazilian Experience; Vijay L Kelkar; Suresh D Tendulkar; Jean On Allocating 6 Per Cent of GDP to Alexandre Mendonca Goncalves and Dreze; A Vaidyanathan; R M Honavar; Education; Jandhyala B G Tilak (P) 613 Joanilio Rodolphp Teixeira (F) 1867 Narendra Jadhav; R Radhakrishna; Physician, Heal Thyself; Sumanta Banerjee Currency Sovereignty and Policy Mihir Rakshit and Partha Sen (LE) 934 (C) 2190 Independence: Argentina after ECONOMIC SURVEYS Primary Education as a Fundamental Right: Abandoning the Currency Board; Economic Survey 2005-06: Disregard of Cost Implications; S Chandrasekhar and L Randall Wray (F) 1857 the Downside (Ed) 769 Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (SA) 3797 Debt, Hegemony and Globalisation; ECONOMIC THEORY Primary Education: Debating Quality and Ramaa Vasudevan (BR) 710 Milton Friedman: The Great Laissez-faire Quantity; Manabi Majumdar (C) 785 Economic Growth in the Regime of Reforms: Partisan; Thomas I Palley (C) 5041 Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics Kerala’s Experience; K K Subrahmanian ECONOMISTS and Reservation; Mritiunjoy Mohanty (P) 885 Amartya Sen and Identities; (SA) 3777 Financial Liberalisation in Semi-Industrialised Balraj Puri (LE) 2690 Under-representation of Disadvantaged Economies: The Mexican Case; Milton Friedman: The Great Laissez-faire Classes in Colleges: What Do the Data Julio López and Guadalupe Mantey (F) 1870 Partisan; Thomas I Palley (C) 5041 Tell Us? Rana Hasan and Aashish Mehta Fishing in Federal Waters; Nagesh Prabhu Tribute Hans Singer (1910-2006): Doyen of (SA) 3791 (C) 3467 Development Economics; Rameshwar Urban Schooling; Usha Menon (LE) 836 Flawed Logic of Capital Account Tandon (C) 1176 Urban Schooling: Mired in Apathy and Liberalisation; Amitva Krishna Dutt (F) 1850 V N Kothari; J C Sandesara (LE) 170 Prejudice; Vimala Ramachandran (C) 383 Great Indian Story of Convertibility; EDUCATION Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: A Vasudevan (F) 1881 ‘Docile’ Bodies, ‘Good’ Citizens or ‘Agential’ Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; Impact of Economic Reforms on Social Subjects? Pedagogy and Citizenship in Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 4261 Sector Expenditure in India; Contemporary Society; Meenakshi Thapan EDUCATION AND POLITICS Seema Joshi (SA) 358 (SA) 4195 Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching Indian Economic Reform: A Philosopher’s ‘Sisters under the Skin’: Events of 2002 and History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Stone; Deena Khatkhate (BR) 2203 Girls’ Education in Ahmedabad; Suchitra Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 Indian Experience of Inflation: A Review Sheth and Haeems Nina (SA) 1708 EDUCATION AND RELIGION of the Evolving Process; R K Pattnaik Analysing Current Practices in Geography Islamic Education for Girls; Yoginder Sikand and Amaresh Samantaraya (SA) 349 Education; Yemuna Sunny (SA) 270 (BR) 3774 Indian Industry: Aftermath of Reforms; Cess-driven Allocations for Education; Reinterpreting Madrasas; Arjumand Ara J C Sandesara (BR) 800 Jandhyala B G Tilak (C) 1331 (BR) 2544 Indian Stock Market in Comparison; A Critique of the Approach Paper to Eleventh Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching Joydeep Biswas (C) 1747 Plan; Amiya Kumar Bagchi; Debdas History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Liberalisation with a Human Face: Banerjee and Achin Chakraborty (C) 3346 Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 An Oxymoron; Prasenjit Bose (C) 2297 Determinants of Expenditure on Education: A Transnarrative for the Colony: Astronomy Liberalising Capital Account: An Empirical Analysis Using State Level Education and Religion in 19th Century Lessons and the Great Dilemma; Data; Anindita Chakrabarti and Rama India; Rajive Tiwari (SA) 1269 Sugata Marjit (BR) 1891 Joglekar (SA) 1465 EDUCATION-STATISTICS Managing the Transition to Convertibility; Do Parents Spread Educational Expenditure Should India Use Foreign Exchange Reserves Jamal Mecklai and C Chandrasekhar Evenly across the Two Genders? Evidence to Finance Infrastructure? Charan Singh (F) 1878 from Two North Indian States; Kausik (SA) 517 On Liberalising Foreign Institutional Chaudhuri and Susmita Roy (SA) 5276 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY Investments; Mihir Rakshit (SA) 991 Education An Evaluation; Kumar Rana Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching Poland’s Experience with Convertibility; (BR) 207 History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Leon Podkaminer (F) 1864 Education: More of the Same (Ed) 3340 Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853

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EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND REFORMS Palestine: ‘Homecoming’ of Hamas; and Plantation) and Non-Agricultural Determinants of Expenditure on Education: S S Tabraz (C) 566 Enterprises 1980 to 2005; EPW Research An Empirical Analysis Using State Level Suffrage in West Bengal; AM (C) 2048 Foundation (CS) 2695 Data; Anindita Chakrabarti and Tamil Nadu Lessons for the Future (Ed) 1936 What Does It Take to Become a Software Rama Joglekar (SA) 1465 Tamil Nadu New Times Ahead; Professional? Anirudh Krishna and Education: NCERT Textbooks (Ed) 3628 M S S Pandian (C) 2181 Vijay Brihmadesam (SA) 3307 Higher Education Policy: Many Television in Tamil Nadu Politics; Maya EMPLOYMENT POLICY Contradictions; Paswan Agarwal (C) 4645 Ranganathan (C) 4947 Elite Politics and Maharashtra’s Employment On Allocating 6 Per Cent of GDP to ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Guarantee Scheme; Vishal Jadhav (F) 5157 Education; Jandhyala B G Tilak (P) 613 Electronic Waste Need for Comprehensive Employment Guarantee and Crisis EGYPT Solutions (Ed) 2400 Response; J Krishnamurty (C) 789 From 50 Years Ago (August 4, 1956): Suez EMPLOYEES’ PROVIDENT FUND Employment Guarantee in Jharkhand: and Sovereignty (Ed) 3341 Pension Issue and Challenges Facing India; Ground Realities; Bela Bhatia and From 50 Years Ago (November 10, 1956): Mukul G Asher (F) 4638 Jean Dreze (F) 3198 Aggressors Must Withdraw (Ed) 4633 EMPLOYMENT Employment Guarantee: Why Progress Is From 50 Years Ago (October 20, 1956): The ‘Demographic Dividend’ and Patchy? V M Rao; Samuel Paul; Suez Deadlock (Ed) 4393 Young India’s Economic Future; M Vivekanda; Sita Shekhar and Neoliberalism in Egypt’s Informal Economy; C P Chandrasekhar; Jayati Ghosh and K N M Raju (LE) 4630 Sarasij Majumder (BR) 3863 Anamitra Roychowdhury (SA) 5055 Empowerment, Co-option and Domination: ELECTION COMMISSION Are the Results of the Economic Census Politics of Maharashtra’s Employment Election Commission and Functioning of Robust? Jeemol Unni and G Raveendran Guarantee Scheme; Sujata Patel (F) 5126 Democracy; Manjari Katju (P) 1635 (C) 3558 France Politics of Reform (Ed) 1405 Suffrage in West Bengal; AM (C) 2048 Black Economy, Underestimation of Guaranteed Employment and Gender ELECTIONS Unemployment and Budget 2005-06; Construction: Women’s Mobilisation in Assembly Elections Changing Dynamics in Arun Kumar (SA) 3315 Maharashtra; Anurekha Chari (F) 5141 Tamil Nadu; V Krishna Ananth (C) 1232 Decent Work Deficits in Informal Economy: Indian Industry: Aftermath of Reforms; Assembly Polls 2006: A Foregone Case of Surat; Paula Kantor; J C Sandesara (BR) 800 Outcome in Kerala? P S Nirmala (C) 866 Rani Uma and Jeemol Unni (SA) 2089 Lessons from Argentina’s Employment Assembly Polls 2006: Elections, Development with Dignity (Ed) 843 Guarantee; L Randall Wray (C) 2293 Jatra Style, in West Bengal; Economic Growth and Employment in Policies and Programmes for Employment; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 864 Labour-Surplus Economies; S Mahendra Dev (P) 1511 Bangladesh: Violent Countdown (Ed) 5293 Ajit K Ghose (SA) 3430 EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMES Bolivia What Next? (Ed) 4 Employment and Poverty in India During Elite Politics and Maharashtra’s Employment Churning of the Social Base (Ed) 1935 the 1990s: Is there a Diverging Trend? Guarantee Scheme; Vishal Jadhav (F) 5157 Conspiracy Theories in Bangladesh; Sanjay K Hansda and Partha Ray (SA) 3014 Employment Guarantee and Child Rights; Zafar Sobhan (F) 3275 Employment Position in India as Per Kiran Bhatty (C) 1965 Delimitation in India: Methodological Issues; NSS 61st Round Survey (2004-05); Employment Guarantee and Crisis Response; A K Verma (P) 794 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 4839 J Krishnamurty (C) 789 Dynamics of a Working Democracy: Flexibility, Employment and Labour Employment Guarantee in Jharkhand: Representative Politics in a Goa Market Reforms in India; Ground Realities; Bela Bhatia and Constituency; Peter Ronald deSouza; Alakh N Sharma (SA) 2078 Jean Dreze (F) 3198 Sushma Pawar; Solano Da Silva and Gender, Households and Poverty: Tracking Employment Guarantee: Why Progress Is Edzia Carvalho (SA) 1574 Mediations of Macro Adjustment Patchy? V M Rao; Samuel Paul; Elections and the Bureaucracy in West Programmes; Lakshmi Lingam (SA) 1989 M Vivekanda; Sita Shekhar and Bengal; D Bandyopadhyay (C) 1417 Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global K N M Raju (LE) 4630 Game On Bangladesh’s Pre-Election Season Picture; ; Joann Vanek Employment of Persons with Disabilities: in Full Swing; Zafar Sobhan (C) 1736 and James Heintz (SA) 2131 Evidence from the National Sample Incumbency and Parliamentary An Integrated Totality; Prabhat Patnaik Survey; Sophie Mitra and Elections in India: An Analysis of the (BR) 891 Usha Sambamoorthi (P) 199 Congress Party’s Electoral Performance, Is Local Really Better? Comparing EGS Empowerment, Co-option and Domination: 1962-1999; Vani Kant Borooah (SA) 739 and Locally-Managed Rural Works Politics of Maharashtra’s Employment KERALA A Left Turn; K G Kumar (C) 2051 Programmes in Nasik District; Guarantee Scheme; Sujata Patel (F) 5126 Kerala Elections and After; K Haridas Sanjay Savale (F) 5133 Guaranteed Employment and Gender (C) 2053 Leaving Labour? Some British Impressions of Construction: Women’s Mobilisation in Kerala Intra-Party Differences; Indian Academic Employment Relations; Maharashtra; Anurekha Chari (F) 5141 K Haridas (C) 1234 Peter Ackers (SA) 4187 Is Local Really Better? Comparing EGS and Last Man Standing; Zafar Sobhan (F) 5026 Patterns of Female Employment in Urban Locally-Managed Rural Works Programmes Left Front’s 2006 Victory in West Bengal: India: Analysis of NSS Data (1983 to in Nasik District; Sanjay Savale (F) 5133 Continuity or a Trendsetter? 1999-2000); Sona Mitra (SA) 5000 Lessons from Argentina’s Employment Bidyut Chakrabarty (SA) 3521 Power of the People: Political Mobilisation Guarantee; L Randall Wray (C) 2293 Left Front’s Electoral Victory in West Bengal: and Guaranteed Employment; NREGA Implementation – I: Reasonable An Ethnographer’s Account; Dayabati Roy Shaji Joseph (F) 5149 Beginning in Palakkad, Kerala; and Parhta Sarathi Banerjee (F) 4251 Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics Arun Jacob and Richard Varghese (C) 4943 Left Front’s Victory; Siddhartha Ghosh and Reservation; Mritiunjoy Mohanty NREGA Implementation – II: Birth Pangs in Dastidar (LE) 2398 (SA) 3777 Bihar; Prakash Louis (C) 4946 Municipal Elections in Uttar Pradesh; Trends in Number and Employment of NREGA: Absence of Ownership; A K Verma (C) 5218 Agricultural (Excluding Crop Production Jos Chathukulam and K Gireesan (LE) 3338

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Policies and Programmes for Employment; Science and the Right to Information; Joanilio Rodolphp Teixeira (F) 1867 S Mahendra Dev (P) 1511 Madhav Gadgil (SA) 1895 Macroeconomic Fundamentals and Power of the People: Political Mobilisation Trade Liberalisation and Environmental Exchange Rate Dynamics in India: Some and Guaranteed Employment; Protection: Responses of Leather Industry Survey Results; N R Bhanumurthy (F) 1101 Shaji Joseph (F) 5149 in Brazil, China and India; U Sankar Movements in the Exchange Rate: Trends in ENERGY (SA) 2470 New Indices of Nominal and Effective How Can India Achieve Energy Security? Transparency and the Natural Environment; Rates; EPW Research Foundation Rahul Pandey (C) 303 Misha Singh and Shekhar Singh (P) 1440 (MMR) 178 Japan and India Making Up for the Lost Twenty Years after Chernobyl: Debates and Real Exchange Rate, Fiscal Deficits and Decade; Vivek Pinto (C) 2518 Lessons; M V Ramana (C) 1743 Capital Flows: Refutation Again; ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY Whither ‘Community-Based’ Conservation? Vijay Joshi (D) 446 How Can India Achieve Energy Security? Chetan Kumar (P) 5313 EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES Rahul Pandey (C) 303 Who Changed Delhi’s Air? Urvashi Narain Special Economic Zones: Unnecessary ENTRANCE EXAMINATION and Ruth Greenspan Bell (SA) 1584 Giveaways (Ed) 1300 NET, Researchers and Teachers; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND POLICY EXPORTS Sonal Bhatt (LE) 3826 Environmental Policy, Legislation and ‘Foreign Trade: Import and Export by ENTREPRENEURSHIP Construction of Social Nature; Commodities; EPW Research Foundation Handicrafts: In Need of Invigoration Ajit Menon (C) 188 (CS) 3267 (Ed) 3912 EPICS From 50 Years Ago (July 14, 1956): Mineral ENVIRONMENT From ‘Amazonian’ Warrior to Submissive Policy and Export of Ores (Ed) 2953 ‘Environmental Subjects’ in Kumaon Forests; Wife: The Taming of Alli; Vijaya A Model of Exports and Investment in an J Martinez-Alier (BR) 1773 Ramaswamy (SA) 1661 Open Developing Economy; Rajiv Jha Agrarian Crisis: Looking beyond the Debt Ritual Enactments in a Hindi ‘Mythological’: (SA) 820 Trap; V Ratna Reddy and S Galab(C) 1838 Betab’s Mahabharat in Parsi Theatre; The North-East: Post-Colonial Trauma? A Call for Social Ecology; Michael Lewis Kathryn Hansen (SA) 4985 Hiren Gohain (C) 4537 (BR) 5052 EQUITY MARKET Special Economic Zones Unnecessary Corporate Greed and People’s Livelihood; Indian Stock Market in Comparison; Joydeep Giveaways (Ed) 1300 Hiren Gohain (LE) 4926 Biswas (C) 1747 Special Economic Zones: Revisiting the Desalination in Chennai: What About the Stock Market Fall: Managing Volatile Flows; Policy Debate; Aradhna Aggarwal (C) 4533 Poor and the Environment? Gregor T T Ram Mohan (C) 2411 Sustaining Agricultural Trade: Policy and Meerganz von Medeazza (C) 949 Stock Markets IPO Plot Thickens (Ed) 1824 Impact; Dhanmanjiri Sathe and Distributional Inequities and Resource Use ETHNIC CONFLICTS R S Deshpande (SA) 5337 Behaviour: Political Economy of Dialogue among Ethnic-Nationalists? Trade Liberalisation and Environmental ‘Ecological Divide’ in Pakistan; Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 2962 Protection: Responses of Leather Tarique Niazi (SA) 4273 Internally Displaced Persons in India’s Industry in Brazil, China and India; Environment Protection: Role of Regulatory North-East; Monirul Hussain (C) 391 U Sankar (SA) 2470 System in India; P M Prasad (SA) 1278 Political Transition in Bhutan; EXTERNAL DEBT Environmental Impact of Inter-Basin Water Mathew Joseph C (C) 1311 India’s External Debt – Outstanding and Transfer Projects: Some Evidence from Sri Lanka: Not Seeing the Writing; Changing Composition – 1997 to 2006; Canada; Deepak Kumar Das (F) 1703 Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 4932 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 4931 Goa Plan: People’s Protests (Ed) 5205 Terrorism in the North-East: Linkages and FAMILY Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and Implications; Archana Upadhyay (SA) 4993 Three-Dimensional Family: Remapping a Environmental Change: Origins and EUROPE Multidisciplinary Approach to Family Evolution of Global Environmental History, Experiencing Islam, British Style; Kurt Studies; Kalpana Kannabiran (P) 4427 1676-2000: Part I; Richard Grove and Jacobsen and Sayeed Hasan Khan (C) 395 FAMILY PLANNING Vinita Damodaran (SA) 4345 Historical Amnesia: The Romani Holocaust; Preliminary Findings from the Third National Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and C R Sridhar (C) 3569 Family Health Survey; Kamla Gupta; Environmental Change: Origins and Occidentalism, the Very Idea: An Essay on Sulabha Parasuraman; P Arokiasamy; Evolution of Global Environmental History, the Enlightenment and Enchantment; S K Singh and H Lhungdim (C) 4417 1676-2000: Part II; Richard Grove and Akeel Bilgrami (SA) 3591 FERTILITY Vinita Damodaran (SA) 4497 Western Secularism and Colonial Legacy Falling Fertility and Rising Anaemia? In the City, Out of Place: Environment and in India; Himanshu Roy (SA) 158 Ashish Bose (C) 3923 Modernity, Delhi 1860s to 1960s; EUROPEAN UNION Overestimation of Fertility Rates in Manipur; Awadhendra Sharan (SA) 4905 Data Exclusivity in Pharmaceuticals: W Kumar Singh (SA) 1473 IRLP or the Ecological Approach to Rivers? Little Basis, False Claims; Biswajit Dhar Preliminary Findings from the Third Nazrul Islam (F) 1693 and K M Gopakumar (SA) 5073 National Family Health Survey; Issues on in Environmental Goods and From 50 Years Ago (October 6, 1956): Kamla Gupta; Sulabha Parasuraman; Services; Archana S Mathur and A European Custom’s Union (Ed) 4229 P Arokiasamy; S K Singh and Pradeep Kr Guin (SA) 4675 Impasse at the WTO: A Development H Lhungdim (C) 4417 The Making of Moral Authority: Anna Perspective; Martin Khor (F) 4659 Riddle of Population Growth: Deceleration Hazare and Watershed Management EXCHANGE RATES in Andhra Pradesh during 1991-2001; Programme in Ralegan Siddhi; Capital Movements and Currency Board in Sanjay Kumar and N K Sharma (SA) 4507 Mukul Sharma (SA) 1981 Argentina; Massimo Ricottilli (F) 1861 FESTIVALS Mangrove Conservation Efforts and the Case against Rushing into Full Capital From 50 Years Ago (April 7, 1956): When Local Economy: A Case Study; Rajarshi Account Convertibility; Partha Sen (F) 1853 Delhi Goes Red... (Ed) 1301 Mitra; Rabindra N Bhattacharya; Sugata Convertibility: Brazilian Experience; From 50 Years Ago (October 27, 1956): Hazra and S C Santra (SA) 3612 Alexandre Mendonca Goncalves and Deevali (Ed) 4525

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Kolkata’s Changing Puja Ethos; Financial Liberalisation in India: An FISCAL DEFICIT Chandikaprosad Ghosal (C) 4727 Assessment of Its Nature and Outcomes; The 1999 Brazilian Financial Crisis: FILM INDUSTRY Parthapratim Pal and C P Chandrasekhar ‘Macho-Monetarism’ in Action; Dasmunshi’s Delusions; A G Noorani (CL) 5100 (SA) 975 Gabriel Palma (SA) 727 FINANCE COMMISSION Financial Liberalisation in Budgetary Position of Government of India; Devolution of Net Proceeds of Union Taxes Semi-Industrialised Economies: EPW Research Foundation (CS) 3747 and Duties to States as per Recent The Mexican Case; Julio Lopez and Budgetary Rules and Plan Financing: Finance Commissions’ Recommendations; Guadalupe Mantey (F) 1870 Revisiting the Fiscal Responsibility Act; EPW Research Foundation (CS) 1303 Flawed Analytics; Partha Sen (F) 98 Mihir Rakshit (F) 4547 Redefining the Discourse on Fiscal Liquidity Risk: Causes, Consequences and Capital Account Convertibility of Federalism; Sudipto Mundle (BR) 960 Implications for Risk Management; the Rupee: Issues for Prior Action; Transformation of Central Grants to States: Viral V Acharya (F) 460 Sitharam Gurumurthi (C) 3752 Growing Conditionality and Bypassing Neither Dread Nor Encourage Them; The Critics Are Not Keynesian Enough: State Budgets; Subhash Chandra Garg T T Ram Mohan (F) 95 Fiscal Responsibility and Growth; (F) 4977 A Note on Portfolio Flows into India; Errol D’Souza (F) 4565 Why Do the States Not Spend? An A Vasudevan (F) 90 Financial Liberalisation in India: An Exploration of the Phenomenon of Cash On Liberalising Foreign Institutional Assessment of Its Nature and Outcomes; Surpluses and the FRBM Legislation; Investments; Mihir Rakshit (SA) 991 Parthapratim Pal and C P Chandrasekhar T M Thomas Isaac and Stock Market Bears at the Door (Ed) 2176 (SA) 975 R Ramakumar (F) 4965 FINANCIAL SECTOR REFORMS FRBM Act and Eleventh Plan Approach FINANCE COMMISSION-2005-2010 Capital Inflows during the Post-Liberalisation Paper; D K Srivastava (F) 4553 Finance Commission and Backward States; Period; Indrani Chakraborty (SA) 143 Homage to Deficit Reduction (Ed) 767 K B L Mathur (D) 3819 Case against Rushing into Full Capital Indian Experience of Inflation: A Review of Twelfth Finance Commission and Backward Account Convertibility; Partha Sen (F) 1853 the Evolving Process; R K Pattnaik and States; G R Reddy (SA) 3513 Convertibility Brazilian Experience; Amaresh Samantaraya (SA) 349 FINANCES, STATES Alexandre Mendonca Goncalves and Need to Rethink Fiscal Strategy; Finance Commission and Backward States; Joanilio Rodolphp Teixeira (F) 1867 EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 544 K B L Mathur (D) 3819 A Critique of the Approach Paper to Eleventh The Politics of Sound Finance; Fiscal Marksmanship: Link between Plan; Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Debdas Amit Bhaduri (F) 4569 Forecasting Central Tax Revenues and Banerjee and Achin Chakraborty (C) 3346 Real Exchange Rate, Fiscal Deficits and State Fiscal Management; Pratap R Jena Currency Sovereignty and Policy Capital Flows: Refutation Again; (SA) 3971 Independence: Argentina after Vijay Joshi (D) 446 Fishing in Federal Waters; Nagesh Prabhu Abandoning the Currency Board; Twelfth Finance Commission and (C) 3467 L Randall Wray (F) 1857 Backward States; G R Reddy (SA) 3513 India’s Fiscal Management Financial Liberalisation in India: An What Is Wrong with Sound Finance; Post-Liberalisation; Amaresh Bagchi (P) 4117 Assessment of Its Nature and Outcomes; Prabhat Patnaik (F) 4560 Political Economy of West Bengal: A Puzzle Parthapratim Pal and C P Chandrasekhar FISCAL FEDERALISM and a Hypothesis; Abhirup Sarkar (SA) 341 (SA) 975 Devolution of Net Proceeds of Union Taxes Transformation of Central Grants to States: Flawed Logic of Capital Account and Duties to States as per Recent Finance Growing Conditionality and Bypassing Liberalisation; Amitva Krishna Dutt (F) 1850 Commissions’ Recommendations; State Budgets; Subhash Chandra Garg Great Indian Story of Convertibility; EPW Research Foundation (CS) 1303 (F) 4977 A Vasudevan (F) 1881 Fiscal Decentralisation to the Sub-State Level Twelfth Finance Commission and Backward Indian Stock Market in Comparison; Governments; M A Oommen (SA) 897 States; G R Reddy (SA) 3513 Joydeep Biswas (C) 1747 Fiscal Marksmanship: Link between Why Do the States Not Spend? An Exploration Liberalising Capital Account: Lessons and Forecasting Central Tax Revenues and State of the Phenomenon of Cash Surpluses and the Great Dilemma; Sugata Marjit (BR) 1891 Fiscal Management; Pratap R Jena (SA) 3971 the FRBM Legislation; T M Thomas Isaac Managing the Transition to Convertibility; Fishing in Federal Waters; Nagesh Prabhu and R Ramakumar (F) 4965 Jamal Mecklai and C Chandrasekhar (C) 3467 FINANCES, UNION (F) 1878 India’s Fiscal Management Post- Budgetary Position of Government of India; Need for Flexibility in Financial Sector Liberalisation; Amaresh Bagchi (P) 4117 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 3747 Reform; EPW Research Foundation Redefining the Discourse on Fiscal FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (MMR) 4000 Federalism; Sudipto Mundle (BR) 960 Performance of Non-Government Non- Neoclassical Finance and the Fully Convertible Transformation of Central Grants to States: Financial Private Limited Companies; EPW Rupee; Sivakumar Arumugam (SA) 4807 Growing Conditionality and Bypassing Research Foundation (CS) 375 On Liberalising Foreign Institutional State Budgets; Subhash Chandra Garg FINANCIAL MARKET Investments; Mihir Rakshit (SA) 991 (F) 4977 Capital Inflows during the Post-Liberalisation Poland’s Experience with Convertibility; Why Do the States Not Spend? An Period; Indrani Chakraborty (SA) 143 Leon Podkaminer (F) 1864 Exploration of the Phenomenon of Cash Convertibility Brazilian Experience; A Practitioner’s Perspective; Abheek Barua Surpluses and the FRBM Legislation; Alexandre Mendonca Goncalves and (F) 1875 T M Thomas Isaac and R Ramakumar Joanilio Rodolphp Teixeira (F) 1867 Universal Banking: Solution for India’s (F) 4965 Courting Risk: Policy Manoeuvres on FII Financial Challenges? A K Khandelwal (SA) FISCAL POLICY Inflows; C P Chandrasekhar (F) 92 969 At the Threshold of 10 Per Cent Economic Current State of the Indian Capital Market; When Did the ‘Hindu’ Rate of Growth End? Growth? Parthasarathi Shome (C) 943 R H Patil (SA) 1001 Baldev Raj Nayar (P) 1885 Budgetary Rules and Plan Financing: FII flows and Capital Market; Why Capital Account Convertibility in India Revisiting the Fiscal Responsibility Act; Basudeb Sen (LE) 450 Is Premature; John Williamson (F) 1848 Mihir Rakshit (F) 4547

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The Critics Are Not Keynesian Enough: FOOD SECURITY Optimising FDI Benefits; N S Siddharthan Fiscal Responsibility and Growth; Centrality of Agriculture to India’s Economic (BR) 1248 Errol D’Souza (F) 4565 Development; N A Mujumdar (P) 31 Power of Finance (Ed) 5095 Need to Rethink Fiscal Strategy; Essential Commodities: Demats and A Rejoinder to ‘Rent-a-Womb Economics’; EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 544 Imports as Panacea (Ed) 3552 Suhas Chattopadhyay (D) 526 The Politics of Sound Finance; Food Insecurity in Gujarat: A Study of Revisiting FDI in China; D N Ghosh (D) 1213 Amit Bhaduri (F) 4569 Two Rural Populations; Sujoy Chakravarty Roadmap to Risk and Volatility (Ed) 3827 Reinventing Fiscal Policy; Romar Correa and Sejal A Dand (SA) 2248 FOREIGN EXCHANGE (F) 2282 Food Security, Agrarian Crisis and Rural Money, G-Sec and Forex Markets: Wait and FISHERIES AND MARINE PRODUCTS Livelihoods: Implications for Women; Watch Policy; Clearing Corporation of Community Panchayats in Fish Marketing; Maithreyi Krishnaraj (SA) 5376 India Limited (CS) 2957 K Karunaharan and C Thangamuthu Wheat Back to Imports? (Ed) 1600 Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Buoyancy (C) 4860 FOOD SUPPLY in Bond Market; Clearing Corporation of Fisheries Development Board: How Essential Commodities: Demats and India Limited (CS) 5025 Colour-fast Is Blueprint for a Blue Imports as Panacea (Ed) 3552 Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Revolution? Sebastian Mathew (C) 4939 From 50 Years Ago (May 12, 1956): Developments in October 2006; Clearing Fishing Convention: India Should Vote for Importing Wheat (Ed) 1825 Corporation of India Limited (CS) 4637 ILO Work Programme; Sebastian Mathew WHEAT IMPORTS Food Security or Politics? FOREIGN EXCHANGE REGULATIONS (C) 306 M Raghavan (C) 2057 A Dangerous Measure; K S et al Tyranny of Distance: State of Economy of FOODGRAIN TRADE Krishnaswamy (LE) 1222 Lakshadweep; P D Jeromi (C) 3291 Contract Farming through Agribusiness Managing the Transition to Convertibility; FIVE YEAR PLANS-1951-1956 Firms and State Corporation: A Case Study Jamal Mecklai and C Chandrasekhar From 50 Years Ago (June 23, 1956): in Punjab; Pramod Kumar (SA) 5367 (F) 1878 Life Force Overwhelms (Ed) 2401 FOODGRAINS PROCUREMENT Money and Forex Market Developments FIVE YEAR PLANS-1956-1961 WHEAT IMPORTS Food Security or Politics? Imp[act of IMD Redemption; Clearing From 50 Years Ago (April 28, 1956): M Raghavan (C) 2057 Corporation of India Limited (CS) 9 Who Fathers the Plan? (Ed) 1601 FOREIGN BANKS Money and Forex Markets Mutual Funds From 50 Years Ago (January, 1956): Foreign Banks in Historical Perspective; Dominate Short-Term Lending Market; Anthology or Drama (Ed) 373 A Karunagaran (F) 1087 Clearing Corporation of India Limited From 50 Years Ago (October 13, 1956): FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (CS) 2281 On the Carpet (Ed) 4305 Capital Inflows during the Post-Liberalisation Money and Forex Markets Persistence of FIVE YEAR PLANS-2007-2012 Period; Indrani Chakraborty (SA) 143 Illiquidity; Clearing Corporation of India Approach Paper to the Eleventh Five-Year Case against Rushing into Full Capital Limited (CS) 1409 Plan: A Sceptical Note; D M Nachane (C) 3141 Account Convertibility; Partha Sen (F) 1853 Money and Forex Markets Persistent Budgetary Rules and Plan Financing: China, India and the World Economy; Liquidity Shortage; Clearing Corporation Revisiting the Fiscal Responsibility Act; T N Srinivasan (SA) 3716 of India Limited (CS) 850 Mihir Rakshit (F) 4547 Courting Risk: Policy Manoeuvres on FII Money and Forex Markets: Volatile A Critique of the Approach Paper to Eleventh Inflows; C P Chandrasekhar (F) 92 Short-Term Rates; Clearing Corporation of Plan; Amiya Kumar Bagchi; Debdas Dragon as Exemplar? Beware Convenient India Limited (CS) 457 Banerjee and Achin Chakraborty (C) 3346 Uses of China Model; Mathew C J Rudolph Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Pressure Doubtful Macroeconomics (Ed) 2507 (D) 655 on Primary Dealers; Clearing Corporation Education: More of the Same (Ed) 3340 FDI in Higher Education: Official Vision of India Limited (CS) 3450 FRBM Act and Eleventh Plan Approach Needs Correction; Rajesh Kumar Sharma Money, G Secs and Forex Markets: Paper; D K Srivastava (F) 4553 (C) 5036 Lukewarm Response to Electronic A Rejoinder to a Sceptical Note; FII flows and Capital Market; Basudeb Sen Platform; Clearing Corporation of India C S Deshpande (LE) 3910 (LE) 450 Limited (CS) 4309 Where Is Gender in Eleventh Plan Financial Liberalisation in Semi-Industrialised Resilience of Liquidity in Indian Securities Approach Paper? Indira Hirway (C) 3464 Economies: The Mexican Case; Markets; Susan Thomas (F) 3452 FLOODS Julio Lopez and Guadalupe Mantey (F) 1870 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES Contending Water Uses Bridge over the Flawed Analytics; Partha Sen (F) 98 Blurring of Development Goals in Brahmaputra; Chandan Mahanta and Great Indian Story of Convertibility; Refinancing; EPW Research Foundation Anjana Mahanta (F) 579 A Vasudevan (F) 1881 (MMR) 1154 Mumbai Floods: A Year Later (Ed) 3264 Indian Investments Abroad: What Explains Can Primary Dealers Replace RBI in FLORICULTURE the Boom? R Nagaraj (C) 4716 Security Issues? EPW Research Foundation Globalisation and Expanding Markets for Managing the Transition to Convertibility; (MMR) 1604 Cut-Flowers: Who Benefits?: Saraswati Jamal Mecklai and C Chandrasekhar Case for Government Direction on Interest Raju and Sucharita Sen (SA) 2725 (F) 1878 Rates; EPW Research Foundation FOOD CONSUMPTION A Model of Exports and Investment in an (MMR) 3632 Redefining Poverty: A New Poverty Line Open Developing Economy; Rajiv Jha Casino Capitalism in the Making? (Ed) 1223 for a New India; Mohan Guruswamy and (SA) 820 A Dangerous Measure; K S et al Ronald Joseph Abraham (P) 2534 Neither Dread Nor Encourage Them; Krishnaswamy (LE) 1222 FOOD POLICY T T Ram Mohan (F) 95 Dear Money Policy, Rising Yields and High Food Regulation: Missing Standards (Ed) 3552 New (TNC) Kids on the Block (Ed) 4391 Interest Costs; EPW Research Foundation FOOD PRODUCTION A Note on Portfolio Flows into India; (MMR) 3268 The Indian Monsoon, GDP and Agriculture; A Vasudevan (F) 90 Exuberance in Financial Markets: Towards Sulochana Gadgil and Siddhartha Gadgil On Liberalising Foreign Institutional What End? EPW Research Foundation (SA) 4887 Investments; Mihir Rakshit (SA) 991 (MMR) 5208

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Financial Inclusion in a Deregulated Regime; How Promising Is BIMSTEC? FRANCE Clearing Corporation of India Limited Nilanjan Banik (SA) 5264 France Politics of Reform (Ed) 1405 (MMR) 1940 India-China Trade: Lessons Learned and From Yoghurt to Steel: French Economic Financial Liberalisation in India: An Projections for 2015; Jean-Joseph Boillot Nationalism in Defensive Mode; Assessment of Its Nature and Outcomes; and Mathieu Labbouz (SA) 2893 John Roberts (C) 2531 Parthapratim Pal and C P Chandrasekhar Para 6 of WTO Doha Declaration: FREE TRADE (SA) 975 Non-solution of TRIPS Problem; Flights of Corporate Fantasy; C R Sridhar Flawed Logic of Capital Account C Niranjan Rao (C) 301 (LE) 842 Liberalisation; Amitva Krishna Dutt (F) 1850 Policy Space in Historical Perspective with Negotiations Adrift (Ed) 2043 Monetary Policy and Operations in Special Reference to Trade and Industrial FREEDOM OF SPEECH Countries with Surplus Liquidity; Policies; Ha-Joon Chang (SA) 627 Freedom and ‘Restraint’; Bhanoji Rao Mridul Saggar (SA) 1041 Review of WTO Rules on Antidumping and (LE) 3262 Money and Forex Markets Improved Countervailing Measures; C Satapathy FRUITS Liquidity in Short-Term Market; (SA) 263 Cross-Validation of Production and Clearing Corporation of India Limited Rules for Fair Trade; Dev Nathan (BR) 1893 Consumption Data of Fruits and (CS) 1829 SAFTA Uncertain Gains (Ed) 4 Vegetables; Jatinder S Bedi (SA) 5345 Need for Flexibility in Financial Sector SAFTA: Myth of Free Trade; Dushni FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Reform; EPW Research Foundation Weerakoon and Jayanthi Thennakoon Primary Education as a Fundamental Right: (MMR) 4000 (C) 3920 Cost Implications; S Chandrasekhar and Pitfalls of Synchronisation with Global Trade Liberalisation and Environmental Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (SA) 3797 Policy Trends; EPW Research Foundation Protection: Responses of Leather FUNDAMENTALISM (MMR) 2404 Industry in Brazil, China and India; Bangladesh Troubled Future; Sarmila Bose Should India Use Foreign Exchange Reserves U Sankar (SA) 2470 (BR) 806 to Finance Infrastructure? Charan Singh Trade Treaties and US Hegemony in the FUTURES MARKETS (SA) 517 Americas; Sujatha Fernandes (C) 1954 Essential Commodities: Demats and FOREIGN POLICY FOREST MANAGEMENT Imports as Panacea (Ed) 3552 America and the Israel Lobby (C) 3651 JFM What Is New? Rajiv Kumar (LE) 1730 Futures and Prices; Madhoo Pavaskar Brazil’s External Policy; R Viswanathan FOREST POLICY (LE) 3826 (F) 685 Environmental Policy, Legislation and Options Trading in Commodities; Choosing War, Confronting Defeat; Construction of Social Nature; Ajit Menon Madhoo Pavaskar (C) 3150 Zia Mian (F) 4234 (C) 188 GANDHI, M K Faux Pas in Foreign Policy; GPD (C) 1740 JFM What Is New? Rajiv Kumar (LE) 1730 Gandhi The Colonising Object; Form 50 Years Ago (December 22, 1956): Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Vithal Rajan (C) 1425 Washington and Neutrals (Ed) 5293 Rights) Bill: A View from Anthropology Gandhi’s Little-Known Critique of Varna; The Making of US Foreign Policy for and Call for Dialogue; Arnab Sen and Anil Nauriya (C) 1835 South Asia: Offshore Balancing in Esther Lalhrietpui (SA) 4205 The Knowledge Debate Reopened; Historical Perspective; Lioyd I Rudolph FORESTS AND FORESTRY Ananya Vajpeyi (BR) 5241 and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (P) 703 ‘Environmental Subjects’ in Kumaon Forests; Lage Raho Munna Bhai: Unravelling Brand National Interest: A Flawed Notion: J Martinez-Alier (BR) 1773 ‘Gandhigiri’; Arunabha Ghosh and Indian Foreign Policy since 1991; Exclusion in Madhav National Park: Is Policy Tapan Babu (C) 5225 Achin Vanaik (P) 5045 Change Required? Kim Beazley (SA) 4684 Lage Raho Munnabhai: History as Farce; Nature of the Zionist Beast: Lebanon, Forest Bill 2005 and Tribal Areas: Case of S Ganesh (C) 4317 Palestine and Israel’s Scorched Earth Jharkhand; Ritambhara Hebbar (F) 4952 Nationalism, Genuine and Spurious: Policy; Gabriela Becker (C) 3653 From 50 Years Ago (February 18, 1956): Mourning Two Early Post-Nationalist Revisiting Nehruvian Idealism in the Away from Planning – To the Forests Strains; Ashis Nandy (P) 3500 Context of Contemporary Imperialism; (Ed) 537 Only One Word, Properly Altered: Gandhi Anirudh Deshpande (SA) 5408 Human-Related Constraints in Protected and the Question of the Prostitute; US: Mid-term Lessons (Ed) 4712 Area Management: Manifestations and Ajay Skaria (SA) 5065 FOREIGN RELATIONS Causatives; V Anitha; A S Binilkumar GANDHISM Faux Pas in Foreign Policy; GPD (C) 1740 and P K Muraleedharan (SA) 919 Lage Raho Munna Bhai: Unravelling Brand From Fifty Years Ago (Dececmber 22, 1956): Mangrove Conservation Efforts and the ‘Gandhigiri’; Arunabha Ghosh and Washington and Neutrals (Ed) Local Economy: A Case Study; Tapan Babu (C) 5225 FOREIGN REMITTANCES Rajarshi Mitra, Rabindra N Bhattacharya; Lage Raho Munnabhai: History as Farce; Macroeconomic Determinants of Sugata Hazra and S C Santra (SA) 3612 S Ganesh (C) 4317 Remittances: Evidence from India; Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Nature of Peasant Nationalism; Poonam Gupta (SA) 2769 Rights) Bill: A View from Anthropology Anand Chakravarti (RA) 3302 FOREIGN TRADE and Call for Dialogue; Arnab Sen and GENDER DISCRIMINATION Foreign Trade: Import and Export by Esther Lalhrietpui (SA) 4205 Child Malnutrition and Gender Commodities; EPW Research Foundation Scheduled Tribes Bill: For Whom and for Discrimination in South Asia; (CS) 3267 What? Ranjit Sau (D) 5009 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 912 Choosing the Appropriate Tariff Reduction Tribal Land Alienation in Andhra Pradesh: Construction of Gender and Religious Formula in NAMA; Prabhash Ranjan Processes, Impacts and Policy Concerns; Identities in the First Punjabi Novel (C) 1507 S Laxman Rao; Priya Deshingkar and Sundari; Gurpreet Bal (SA) 3528 Endgame on Doha? (Ed) 2691 John Farrington (SA) 5401 Do Parents Spread Educational Expenditure Failure of WTO Geneva Mini-Ministerial: Whither ‘Community-Based’ Conservation? Evenly across the Two Genders? Evidence New Deadline and Challenges; Chetan Kumar (P) 5313 from Two North Indian States; Kausik Martin Khor (C) 3143 Why Harda Failed; Prakash Kashwan (D) 2497 Chaudhuri and Susmita Roy (SA) 5276

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Gender, Caste and Fiction: A Bahujan Debt, Hegemony and Globalisation; Money and Forex Market Developments Reading of ’s Rudali; Ramaa Vasudeva (BR) 710 Imp[act of IMD Redemption; Clearing Ajay Sekher (C) 4422 Globalisation and Economic Corporation of India Limited (CS) 9 Making Space for Feminist Social Critique in Transformation in a Peripheral Economy: Money and Forex Markets Improved Contemporary Kerala; J Devika and The Bangladesh Experience; Liquidity in Short-Term Market; Clearing Mini Sukumar (SA) 4469 Anu Muhammad (SA) 1459 Corporation of India Limited (CS) 1829 Representation of Women and Gender Globalisation and Expanding Markets for Money and Forex Markets Mutual Funds Relations in Six Acres and a Third; Cut-Flowers: Who Benefits? Saraswati Dominate Short-Term Lending Market; Claire Horan (F) 4789 Raju and Sucharita Sen (SA) 2725 Clearing Corporation of India Limited Role of Women in the UN; Chitra Sinha Globalisation and Higher Education in (CS) 2281 (BR) 3952 Pakistan; Nadeem Omar Tarar (SA) 5080 Money and Forex Markets Persistence of Rural Wages during the 1990s: A Globalisation and War in Ivory Coast; Illiquidity; Clearing Corporation of India Re-estimation; Ravi Srivastava and Peter Custers (C) 1844 Limited (CS) 1409 Richa Singh (SA) 4053 Outsourcing the American Dream? Money and Forex Markets Persistent Sacred Spaces, Secular Norms and Representing the Stakes of IT Liquidity Shortage; Clearing Corporation Women’s Rights; Kavita Krishnan (C) 2969 Globalisation; Mobina Hashmi (SA) 242 of India Limited (CS) 850 Tourism Processes and Gender Relations: The State, Democracy and Global Justice; Money and Forex Markets: Volatile Issues for Exploration and Intervention; Vidhu Verma (SA) 3728 Short-Term Rates; Clearing Corporation Indra Munshi (SA) 4461 Towards Universalism: A Historiographical of India Limited (CS) 457 Trends in Agricultural Wages in India: Advance; Rajat Kanta Ray (BR) 4035 Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Pressure 1964-65 to 1999-2000; Pallavi Chavan GOA on Primary Dealers; Clearing Corporation and Rajshree Bedamatta (SA) 4041 Democratic Management of Common of India Limited (CS) 3450 Women’s Studies in China Today; Property in Goa: From ‘Gaonkarias’ Money, G Secs and Forex Markets: Ravni Thakur (SA) 4455 and ‘Communidades’ to Gram Sabhas; Lukewarm Response to Electronic GENDER RESEARCH Sharon D’Cruz and Platform; Clearing Corporation of India Tribes in Gender Studies; Jayabrata Sarkar Avinash V Raikar (SA) 439 Limited (CS) 4309 (BR) 3205 Dynamics of a Working Democracy: Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Wait and GENDER ROLES Representative Politics in a Goa Watch Policy; Clearing Corporation of Where Is Gender in Eleventh Plan Approach Constituency; Peter Ronald deSouza; India Limited (CS) 2957 Paper? Indira Hirway (C) 3464 Sushma Pawar; Solano Da Silva and Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Buoyancy GENDER STUDIES Edzia Carvalho (SA) 1574 in Bond Market; Clearing Corporation of Gender and Work in the ‘Digital Economy’; Goa Plan: People’s Protests (Ed) 5205 India Limited (CS) 5025 Sujata Gothoskar (BR) 1517 GOLD CONTROL Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Gender, Caste and Fiction: A Bahujan India’s Elasticity of Demand for Gold; Developments in October 2006; Clearing Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali; Anand Chandavarkar and I G Patel Corporation of India Limited (CS) 4637 Ajay Sekher (C) 4422 (SA) 507 Need for Flexibility in Financial Sector Gender, Households and Poverty: Tracking GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION Reform; EPW Research Foundation Mediations of Macro Adjustment The Critics Are Not Keynesian Enough: (MMR) 4000 Programmes; Lakshmi Lingam (SA) 1989 Fiscal Responsibility and Growth; Need to Rethink Fiscal Strategy; Representation of Women and Gender Errol D’Souza (F) 4565 EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 544 Relations in Six Acres and a Third; GOVERNMENT SECURITIES Pitfalls of Synchronisation with Global Claire Horan (F) 4789 Blurring of Development Goals in Policy Trends; EPW Research Foundation Sexuality A Realm of Politics; Refinancing; EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 2404 Arvind Narrain (BR) 1189 (MMR) 1154 Resilience of Liquidity in Indian Securities Understanding Masculinities; Can Primary Dealers Replace RBI in Markets; Susan Thomas (F) 3452 Kusum Gopal (BR) 807 Security Issues? EPW Research Foundation GREEN REVOLUTION Women’s Agency in the Context of Family (MMR) 1604 Bhakra Nangal and the Green Revolution; Networks in Indian Diaspora; Case for Government Direction on Interest Ramaswamy R Iyer (LE) 2 Shobhita Jain (P) 2312 Rates; EPW Research Foundation Indo-US Knowledge Initiative: Need for GENETIC RESOURCES (MMR) 3632 Public Debate; Rajeswari S Raina (C) 1622 Biosafety and Beyond: GM Crops in India; Curtailing Capability of NABARD; GROUNDWATER Kavitha Kuruganti (C) 4245 EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 4396 Are Wells a Potential Threat to Farmers’ Genetic Resources and Data; V R Rao Dear Money Policy, Rising Yields and High Well-being? Case of Deteriorating (LE) 1816 Interest Costs; EPW Research Foundation Groundwater Irrigation in Tamil Nadu; GENOCIDE (MMR) 3268 S Janakarajan and Marcus Moench Meditation on Haditha; Kurt Jacobsen and Exuberance in Financial Markets: Towards (SA) 3977 Sayeed Hasan Khan (C) 3849 What End? EPW Research Foundation The Bank Comes Full Circle; Mihir Shah GEOGRAPHY (MMR) 5208 (BR) 2201 Analysing Current Practices in Geography Financial Inclusion in a Deregulated Regime; Bhopal Gas Tragedy: ‘New’ Victims; Education; Yemuna Sunny (SA) 270 Clearing Corporation of India Limited Betwa Sharma (C) 1613 GERMANY (MMR) 1940 Conserving a Precious Resource (Ed) 3447 Listening for Echoes: Partition in Is Not the Current Growth Cycle Driven by Equity, Access and Allocation Discrimination Three Contexts; Eyal Ben-Ari and Bank Credit? EPW Research Foundation in an Irrigation Project; S N Lele and Smita Tewari Jassal (F) 2213 (MMR) 4840 R K Patil (F) 583 GLOBALISATION Liquidity Risk: Causes, Consequences and Integrated Land and Water Use: A Case Childhood in a Globalising World; Implications for Risk Management; Study of Punjab; A S Bhullar and Krishna Kumar (P) 4030 Viral V Acharya (F) 460 R S Sidhu (SA) 5353

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Kerala’s Plachimada Struggle: A Narrative on Many Threats of a Story; Seemanthini HEALTH AND NUTRITION Water and Governance Rights; C R Bijoy Niranjana (BR) 5050 Access to Nutritious Meal Programmes: (F) 4332 Marketing Handlooms: Introduction; Evidence from 1999-2000 NSS Data; Measuring the Marginal Value of Water and Seemanthini Niranjana; M Annapurna; Brinda Viswanathan (SA) 497 Elasticity of Demand for Water in B Syamasundari; Latha Tummuru and Breastfeeding and Child Health; Agriculture; E Somanathan and Uzramma (F) 3361 Arun Gupta and Deeksha Sharma (LE) 1402 R Ravindranath (SA) 2712 Rehwa: Maheshwari Handloom Weavers; Chhattisgarh: Grassroot Mobilisation for Sand Mining Groundwater Depletion in Nikhil Mathur (F) 3382 Children’s Nutrition Rights; Samir Garg Papagani Catchment; Transitioning Markets: Transcending (F) 3694 M Chandrasekhara Rao (F) 593 Consumption; M Annapurna (F) 3388 Child Malnutrition and Gender Unravelling Bhakra; Shripad Dharmadhikary Urmul: Weaving Self-Reliance; Discrimination in South Asia; (D) 285 M Aruna (F) 3374 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 912 Upstream vs Downstream: Groundwater Valuing the Non-Market; B Syamasundari Child Malnutrition behind the Numbers Management and Rainwater Harvesting; and Seemanthini Niranjana (F) 3394 (Ed) 1732 Sunil Ray and Mahendra Bijarnia (SA) 2375 HARYANA Deja vu of Hunger amidst Plenty (Ed) 4227 Water Quality Bridging the Ganga Action Gender, Ageing and Social Security; Food Dole or Health, Nutrition and Plan: Monitoring Failure at Kanpur; Meena Gopal (SA) 4477 Development Programme? Praveen Singh (F) 590 Transboundary Disputes Politics and Shanti Ghosh (F) 3664 GUJARAT Litigation Play Havoc: Sutlej Yamuna Link Hidden Hunger: The Problem and Possible ‘Sisters under the Skin’: Events of 2002 and Canal; Indira Khurana (F) 608 Interventions; Tara Gopaldas (F) 3671 Girls’ Education in Ahmedabad; Suchitra Unravelling Bhakra; ICDS and Persistent Undernutrition: Sheth and Haeems Nina (SA) 1708 Shripad Dharmadhikary (D) 285 Strategies to Enhance the Impact; Best Bakery Case: Welcome Judgment HEALTH Yi-Kyoung Lee; Monica Das Gupta; (Ed) 768 The ‘Demographic Dividend’ and Young Caryn Bredenkamp; Michele Gragnolati Contending Water Uses: Social India’s Economic Future; and Meera Shekar (SA) 1193 Undercurrents in a Water-Scarce Village; C P Chandrasekhar, Jayati Ghosh and Infant and Young Child Feeding: An R K Sama and Anjal Prakash (F) 577 Anamitra Roychowdhury (SA) 5055 ‘Optimal’ Approach; Arun Gupta (F) 3666 Dams and Displacement: Alternative Assisting Childbirth; Punam Zutshi (BR) 2310 Preliminary Findings from the Third Restructuring of the Sardar Sarovar: Debates in Public Health; National Family Health Survey; Kamla Breaking the Deadlock; Suhas Paranjape Pratik Chakrabarti (BR) 2457 Gupta; Sulabha Parasuraman; and K J Joy (F) 601 Drug Prices and Drug Pushers; P Arokiasamy; S K Singh and Food Insecurity in Gujarat: A Study of Two J B D’Souza (C) 2060 H Lhungdim (C) 4417 Rural Populations; Sujoy Chakravarty Empowering Soliga Tribes: ‘Sudarshan Rethinking ICDS: A Rights Based and Sejal A Dand (SA) 2248 Model’ of Karnataka; Ashish Bose (C) 564 Perspective; Dipa Sinha (F) 3689 Gender, Ageing and Social Security; Food Dole or Health, Nutrition and Tamil Nadu: ICDS with a Difference; Meena Gopal (SA) 4477 Development Programme? Anuradha Khati Rajivan (F) 3684 Gujarat Intolerance of the Benign (Ed) 1825 Shanti Ghosh (F) 3664 Universalisation of ICDS and Community Gujarat Quiet Transfer of Commons; Vinay HIV/AIDS: Spreading Scourge (Ed) 3132 Health Worker Programmes: Lessons from Mahajan and Charul Bharwada (C) 313 Impact of Economic Reforms on Social Chhattisgarh; T Sundararaman (F) 3674 Inside Gujarat’s Relief Colonies: Surviving Sector Expenditure in India; Seema Joshi Universalisation with Quality: ICDS in a State Hostility and Denial; (SA) 358 Rights Perspective; Jean Dreze (SA) 3706 Harsh Mander (F) 5235 Implementation of ICDS in Bihar and Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: Why Justice: Crime and Acquittal (Ed) 845 Jharkhand; Nandini Nayak and UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; Santosh The State and Its ‘Balancing Acts’; Naresh C Saxena (F) 3680 Mehrotra (SA) 4261 Rama (LE) 2398 Is the Trend in Health Changing? HEALTH ECONOMICS Water Quality Unclogging the Khari River: Ravi Duggal (C) 1335 Analysis of Public and Private Healthcare Stakeholders Come Together to Halt National Bioethics Conference; Sandhya Expenditures; Ramesh Bhat and Pollution; Srinivas Mudrakartha; Srinivasan and Sanjay A Pai (C) 475 Nishant Jain (SA) 57 Jatin Sheth and J Srinath (F) 587 NFHS 3: A Matter of Priorities (Ed) 3828 A Review of Health and Economics; HANDICRAFTS Politics of Pro-poor Reforming in the Health D Narayana (BR) 962 Handicrafts: In Need of Invigoration (Ed) 3912 Sector: Primary Healthcare in Tribal Areas HEALTH INSURANCE HANDLOOMS of Visakhapatnam; M Gopinath Reddy; Health Insurance beyond a Piecemeal Angara and Koyyalagudem: Marketing in K Jayalakshmi and Anne-Marie Goetz Approach; Mayur Trivedi and Handloom Cooperatives; P Dharmaraju (SA) 419 Indrani Gupta (C) 2525 (F) 3385 Preliminary Findings from the Third National Health Insurance for the Poor: Myths and Anokhi: In the Craft of Block-Printing; Family Health Survey; Kamla Gupta; Realities; David M Dror (C) 4541 Adarsh Kumar (F) 3371 Sulabha Parasuraman; P Arokiasamy; HEALTH POLICY DAMA: Innovative Marketing; S K Singh and H Lhungdim (C) 4417 A Critique of Healthcare Policy in India; Anisa Puri (F) 3380 Ramdev and Somatic Nationalism: Kannamma Raman (BR) 4579 Desi: Story of Many Threads; Poonam Bir Embodying the Nation, Desiring the HEALTH STATISTICS Kasturi; Swati Unakar; Rolf Marren and Global; Chandrima Chakraborty (C) 387 Child Malnutrition behind the Numbers Suhana Medappa (F) 3369 A Review of Health and Economics; (Ed) 1732 Fabindia: Weaving Customers’ Dreams; D Narayana (BR) 962 Falling Fertility and Rising Anaemia? Savita Modak (F) 3367 Sudarshan Model; Manu N Kulkarni (LE) 842 Ashish Bose (C) 3923 Mangalagiri: Case Study of Master Weavers; Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: NFHS 3: A Matter of Priorities (Ed) 3828 B Syamasundari and Seemanthini Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; Overestimation of Fertility Rates in Niranjana (F) 3377 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 4261 Manipur; W Kumar Singh (SA) 1473

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Preliminary Findings from the Third Higher Education Policy: Many From 50 Years Ago (March 24, 1956): No National Family Health Survey; Contradictions; Paswan Agarwal (C) 4645 Place for Na-paks! (Ed) 1149 Kamla Gupta; Sulabha Parasuraman; Higher Education: State vs Foreign (Ed) 4525 Letters (24 June 2006); Anand P Arokiasamy; S K Singh and Merit of Reservations; Kancha Ilaiah (F) 2447 Chandavarkar; M Ram Naveen; Arup H Lhungdim (C) 4417 Myopic Oversight (Ed) 4523 Kumar Sen; Anagha Deodhar and Abhinav HEALTHCARE SERVICES OBC Reservations in Higher Education: Alakshendra Bhargavi (LE) 2506 Access to Healthcare for All: What Can We Are They Worth All the Turmoil? Sebastian RSS and Sindhi Hindus; Rita Kothari (D) 5414 Learn from the AIDS Movement? Morris (C) 2701 Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching Anand Zachariah (C) 2522 On Backwardness and Fair Access to Higher History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Analysis of Public and Private Healthcare Education: Results from NSS 55th Round Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 Expenditures; Ramesh Bhat and Surveys, 1999-2000; K Sundaram (SA) 5173 The Untold Betrayal of Sindhi Hindus; Nishant Jain (SA) 57 Paying the Social Debt; Sukhdeo Thorat Anand Chandavarkar (D) 4918 Bad Health at High Cost; Achin Chakraborty (F) 2432 HINDUTVA (BR) 481 Physician, Heal Thyself; Sumanta Banerjee Debating Reform in Colonial India; A Critique of Healthcare Policy in India; (C) 2190 Gwilym Beckerlegge (BR) 407 Kannamma Raman (BR) 4579 Primary Education as a Fundamental Right: Defining, Constructing and Policing a ‘New Demand Side Financing for Reproductive Cost Implications; S Chandrasekhar and India’: Relationship between Neoliberalism and Child Health Services in India; Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (SA) 3797 and Hindutva; Shankar Gopalakrishnan A Gorter; K R Thankappan; C A K Yesudian Rang De Basanti: Morality and the (SA) 2803 and M R Bhatia (SA) 279 Reservation Issue; Jasraman Singh Grewal In Defence of Secularism; Kunal Empowering Soliga Tribes: ‘Sudarshan (C) 4114 Chattopadhyay (BR) 405 Model’ of Karnataka; Ashish Bose (C) 564 Redesigning Affirmative Action: Castes and Memories, Saffronising Statues and From Witchcraft to Allopathy: Uninterrupted Benefits in Higher Education; Satish Constructing Communal Politics; Journey of Medical Science; Daya R Varma Deshpande and Yogendra Yadav (F) 2419 Badri Narayan (SA) 4695 (SA) 3605 Riot of Researchers: UGC’s Alternative HISTORIANS Medical Care for HIV: An Opportunity or Adds to the Chaos; Rajeshwari Deshpande Rajnarayan Chandavarkar (1953-2006): Crisis? K Ajithkumar and S Irudayarajan (C) 3561 An Intellectual Biography; Douglas Haynes (C) 1428 Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics and Subho Basu (C) 2061 National Bioethics Conference; Sandhya and Reservation; Mritiunjoy Mohanty Tribute: John Correia-Afonso: Illustrious Srinivasan and Sanjay A Pai (C) 475 (SA) 3777 Academician and Historian; Alban Couto Politics of Pro-poor Reforming in the Health Solution for Reservations; Vithal Rajan (C) 197 Sector: Primary Healthcare in Tribal (LE) 3328 HISTORY Areas of Visakhapatnam; M Gopinath Towards a Knowledge-Based Society; Debate on Indian History: Revising Reddy; K Jayalakshmi and J V Deshpande (C) 3933 Textbooks in California; Sudarsan Anne-Marie Goetz (SA) 419 Under-representation of Disadvantaged Padmanabhan (C) 1761 A Review of Health and Economics; Classes in Colleges: What Do the Data The End of What? Fukuyama’s History D Narayana (BR) 962 Tell Us? Rana Hasan and Aashish Mehta and a Necessary Adjustment to Reality; Unmet National Health Needs: Visions of (SA) 3791 Vinay Lal (BR) 3859 Public Health Foundation of India; Undergraduate versus Postgraduate From 50 Years Ago (June 2, 1956): Trans K Srinath Reddy and Education; Amrik Singh (P) 2450 Quits India (Ed) 2177 Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (C) 3927 Universities and Higher Education; Kings, Slaves and Bandits; Anu Kumar HIGHER EDUCATION Manu N Kulkarni (LE) 3332 (BR) 619 Assumptions and Arithmetic of Caste-Based HIMMATSINHJI COMMITTEE Notes on the Histories of History in the Reservations; Rohini Somanathan (F) 2436 Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute, 1948-60: Soviet Union; Arup Banerji (SA) 826 Case for Caste-based Quotas in Higher A Reappraisal; Srinath Raghavan An Oriya Village and the Battle of Plassey: Education; Jayati Ghosh (F) 2428 (SA) 3882 Senapati’s Allegory of the Raj; Colleges and Kings: Higher Education under HINDHU-MUSLIM RELATIONS Paul L Sawyer (F) 4782 Direct and Indirect Rule; Georg Berkemer RSS in Sindh: 1942-48; Rita Kothari (SA) 3007 Our Past and Our Present; Amartya Sen and Margret Frenz (SA) 1261 HINDUISM (SA) 4877 Democracy, Disagreement and Merit; Ambivalence of Social Consciousness: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar (1953-2006): An Pratap Bhanu Mehta (F) 2425 Inter-Community Relations in Intellectual Biography; Douglas Haynes The Eternal Debate; Ashwini Deshpande Modern India; Sudhir Chandra (P) 397 and Subho Basu (C) 2061 (F) 2444 Courting Controversy in the West; A Simple, Scientific Narrative; Examining the Creamy Layer Principle; Jakob De Roover (C) 1764 R Champakalakshmi (BR) 1979 S Subramanian (C) 4643 Debate on Indian History: Revising Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching Exclusive Inequalities: Merit, Caste and Textbooks in California; Sudarsan History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Discrimination in Indian Higher Education Padmanabhan (C) 1761 Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 Today; Satish Deshpande (F) 2438 Debating Reform in Colonial India; War and the Military Economy; Anirudh FDI in Higher Education: Official Vision Gwilym Beckerlegge (BR) 407 Deshpande (BR) 328 Needs Correction; Rajesh Kumar Sharma In Defence of Secularism; Kunal HONG KONG (C) 5036 Chattopadhyay (BR) 405 Movements in the Exchange Rate: Trends Globalisation and Higher Education in HINDUS in New Indices of Nominal and Effective Pakistan; Nadeem Omar Tarar (SA) 5080 Ambivalence of Social Consciousness: Rates; EPW Research Foundation Higher Education from Politics to Market Inter-Community Relations in Modern (MMR) 178 (Ed) 668 India; Sudhir Chandra (P) 397 Settlements and Disputes: China’s Approach Higher Education Needs a Longer View; Courting Controversy in the West; to Territorial Issues; Neville Maxwell Pulapre Balakrishnan (C) 3458 Jakob De Roover (C) 1764 (SA) 3873

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HORTICULTURE Political Transition in Bhutan; From 50 Years Ago (May 12, 1956): Globalisation and Expanding Markets for Mathew Joseph C (C) 1311 Importing Wheat (Ed) 1825 Cut-Flowers: Who Benefits? Saraswati Raju Rights of the Poor: An Overview of Sustaining Agricultural Trade: Policy and Sucharita Sen (SA) 2725 Supreme Court; Rakesh Shukla (C) 3755 and Impact; Dhanmanjiri Sathe and HOUSEHOLD DEBT Rights, Reforms and Justice: An Essential R S Deshpande (SA) 5337 Political Economy of Statistics; Handbook; K S Subramanian (BR) 621 Wheat Back to Imports? (Ed) 1600 Vidya Pitre (C) 5309 HUMAN TRAFFICKING WHEAT IMPORTS Food Security or Politics? State of India’s Farmers; Human Trafficking Convicting the Victims M Raghavan (C) 2057 A Narayanamoorthy (C) 471 (Ed) 172 INCOME DISTRIBUTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HUNGER AND STARVATION Does the Budget Matter in Pakistan? Income Differentials and Returns to Deja vu of Hunger amidst Plenty (Ed) 4227 S Akbar Zaidi (C) 2512 Education; Laveesh Bhandari and HYDERABAD INDEBTEDNESS Mridusmita Bordoloi (SA) 3893 Towards Urban Multi-Airport Systems; Agrarian Crisis Looking beyond the Debt Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Philip S Thomas (C) 4326 Trap; S Galab and V Ratna Reddy (C) 1838 Households; Arup Mitra (SA) 2123 HYDRO-ELECTRIC PROJECTS Credit, Indebtedness and Farmer Suicides State of India’s Farmers; Transboundary Disputes Two Neighbours in Punjab: Some Missing Links; A Narayanamoorthy (C) 471 and a Treaty: Baglihar Project in Hot Sukhpal Singh (D) 3330 HOUSEHOLD INVESTMENT Waters; Rajesh Sinha (F) 606 Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public Indebtedness of Cultivator Households: ICAR Policy: Evidence, Diagnosis and Some Puzzling Results; K G K Subba Rao Indo-US Knowledge Initiative: Need for Alternatives from Punjab; Anita Gill and (C) 3460 Public Debate; Rajeswari S Raina (C) 1622 Lakhwinder Singh (SA) 2762 HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS ICSSR Farmers’ Suicides and the Agrarian Crisis; Small Savings: Receipts and Outstandings; Whither the Social Sciences? A Vaidyanathan (C) 4009 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 5295 Bhupendra Yadav (C) 3845 Financial Inclusion: Issues and Challenges; HOUSING IDBI S Mahendra Dev (F) 4310 Asian Tsunami: Measuring Relief (Ed) 5292 Industrial Sickness: Trends and Patterns; Financial Status of Rural Poor: A Study in Mumbai Land: Housing Anarchy (Ed) 4836 Rosemary K Abraham and G Omkarnath Udaipur District; M S Sriram and HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (SA) 4161 Smita Parhi (SA) 5269 Development and Deprivation of Scheduled IMF Indebtedness of Cultivator Households: Tribes; Sandip Sarkar; Sunil Mishra; Apology of Quota Reform (Ed) 3995 Some Puzzling Results; K G K Subba Rao Harishwar Dayal and Dev Nathan (SA) 4824 Globalisation and War in Ivory Coast; (C) 3460 Development Concerns: China and India; Peter Custers (C) 1844 Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and Anjani K Kochak (C) 3565 IMF Quota Increase: Indefensible Decision; Suicides in Punjab; P Satish (SA) 2754 Economic Growth and Human Development Raghbendra Jha (C) 4103 Political Economy of Statistics; in Indian States; Madhusudan Ghosh Public-Private Partnership: New Reform Vidya Pitre (C) 5309 (SA) 3321 Mantra; E A S Sarma (BR) 4956 State of India’s Farmers; Human Development: India’s Poor Record IMMIGRATION A Narayanamoorthy (C) 471 (Ed) 4928 Fences and Xenophobes; Vinay Lal (C) 1498 INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT Scheduled Tribes Bill: For Whom and Filipinos in the US; Itty Abraham (C) 674 A Century of Class Struggle; for What? Ranjit Sau (D) 5009 On America’s Bandstand; Itty Abraham Hiren Gohain (BR) 3203 Trends in Human Development Index and (C) 2287 Concept of ‘Seva’ and the ‘Sevak’ in the Related Indicators: Selected Countries; Overseas Indian Citizen A New Freedom Movement; R Srivatsan (SA) 427 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 4527 ‘Setubandhan’? Anupama Roy (C) 1421 Haunting Memories: Is There More to the Tyranny of Distance: State of Economy Terrorism in the North-East: Linkages and History of Vande Mataram than of Lakshadweep; P D Jeromi (C) 3291 Implications; Archana Upadhyay (SA) 4993 Ananda Math? Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT Undocumented Workers in the US; (D) 4621 Higher Education from Politics to Market Sharat G Lin (F) 4867 INDIA-BANGLADESH RELATIONS (Ed) 668 IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMME Bangladesh War of 1971: A Prescription for Higher Education: State vs Foreign (Ed) 4525 Child Survival Programmes Revisited; Reconciliation? Nayanika Mookherjee Human Resource Issues at Regional Manu N Kulkarni (C) 28 (D) 3901 Rural Banks; Dinkar Rao (C) 954 Polio Eradication Programme: A Failure; INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS Leaving Labour? Some British Impressions of Yash Paul (C) 4538 Beyond the India-China Bilateral (Ed) 4835 Indian Academic Employment IMPERIALISM India and China Relations: A Partnership Relations; Peter Ackers (SA) 4187 Debt, Hegemony and Globalisation; of ‘Global Significance’; Alka Acharya HUMAN RESOURCES Ramaa Vasudevan (BR) 710 (C) 4934 What Does It Take to Become a Software Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and India-China Border Dispute: Centrality Professional? Anirudh Krishna and Environmental Change: Origins and of Tibet; Arijit Mazumdar (C) 4324 Vijay Brihmadesam (SA) 3307 Evolution of Global Environmental History, India-China Border War; A K Dasgupta HUMAN RIGHTS 1676. Part I; Richard Grove and Vinita (LE) 4834 Andhra Pradesh: Institutional Apathy towards Damodaran (SA) 4345 India-China Trade: Lessons Learned and Undertrial Prisoners; K Murali (C) 3936 Revisiting Nehruvian Idealism in the Projections for 2015; Jean-Joseph Boillot Manipur: Mockery of Law (Ed) 4392 Context of Contemporary Imperialism; and Mathieu Labbouz (SA) 2893 Minority Rights and Human Rights; Anirudh Deshpande (SA) 5408 Indo-China Relations: A Historic Reopening A G Noorani (C) 1741 IMPORTS (Ed) 3132 Mumbai Bomb Blasts- I: When ‘Terror’ Foreign Trade: Import and Export by Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute, 1948-60: Talk Crushes Human Rights; Commodities; EPW Research Foundation A Reappraisal; Srinath Raghavan A Correspondent (C) 3843 (CS) 3267 (SA) 3882

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Terrorism in the North-East: Linkages and INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES Water Quality Unclogging the Khari River: Implications; Archana Upadhyay (SA) 4993 Competition in Indian Manufacturing Stakeholders Come Together to Halt INDIA-IRAN RELATIONS Industries: A Mobility Analysis; Pollution; Srinivas Mudrakartha; Civilisational Dialogues; Vinay Lal (BR) 4751 K Pushpangadan and N Shanta (SA) 4130 Jatin Sheth and J Srinath (F) 587 INDIA-JAPAN RELATIONS Fencing over Singur (Ed) 5203 INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION Japan and India Making Up for the Lost Land Struggle in Singur; Arup Kumar Sen Public Sector Performance since 1950: Decade; Vivek Pinto (C) 2518 (LE) 3994 A Fresh Look; R Nagaraj (SA) 2551 A Strategic Partnership between India Manufacturing Competitiveness; Trends in Index of Industrial Production and Japan? Vivek Pinto (C) 5299 V Govindarajan (LE) 4226 (Base1993-94=100); EPW Research INDIA-NEPAL RELATIONS Peasant Hares and Capitalist Hounds Foundation (CS) 2047 The ‘Ides’ of April: Lessons from Nepal; of Singur; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5296 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Sumanta Banerjee (C) 1831 Violence in Singur; A Reader (LE) 5088 Guha Niyogi; A K Dasgupta (LE) 760 INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS West Bengal: Land Acquisition and Peasant Leaving Labour? Some British Impressions of From 50 Years Ago (April 21, 1956): Resistance at Singur; Parthasarathi Indian Academic Employment Relations; Inter-related Issues (Ed) 1493 Banerjee (C) 4718 Peter Ackers (SA) 4187 India-Pakistan Relations Another Initiative? Women’s Protests in Singur; Members Khonj INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS (Ed) 1224 Ekhon Porishod (LE) 5290 Trends in Index of Industrial Production Jammu and Kashmir: Framework for a Final INDUSTRIAL FINANCE (Base1993-94=100); EPW Research Settlement; Iqbal A Ansari (C) 3642 From 50 Years Ago (August 18, 1956): Foundation (CS) 2047 More Questions than Answers; Finance for the Private Sector (Ed) 3553 INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY Madhav Godbole (BR) 4667 INDUSTRIAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Child Mortality in Iraq since 1990; Transboundary Disputes Two Neighbours Diffusion of Development; Tim Dyson (SA) 4487 and a Treaty: Baglihar Project in Hot Prabhat Patnaik (P) 1766 Child Survival Programmes Revisited; Waters; Rajesh Sinha (F) 606 Domestic Terms of Trade in a Three-Sector Manu N Kulkarni (C) 28 INDIA- RELATIONS Framework: Analysis for All-India and Infant and Young Child Feeding: An Fallout from Nuclear Deal; States; Surajit Deb (SA) 1713 ‘Optimal’ Approach; Arun Gupta (F) 3666 R Rajaraman (C) 3351 Ecological Embeddedness of the Economy: Infant Survival: A Political Challenge; From Fifty Years Ago (Dececmber 22, 1956): A Socioecological Perspective on Shantha Sinha (F) 3657 Washington and Neutrals (Ed) Humanity’s Economic Activities 1700-2000; A Review of Health and Economics; Indo-US Nuclear Accord Implications for Helmut Haberl; Fridolin Krausmann and D Narayana (BR) 962 Peace and Security in South Asia; Simone Gingrich (SA) 4896 Universalisation of ICDS and Community T Jayaraman (C) 1167 The Economy: Changing Tracks; Health Worker Programmes: Lessons from Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Twists and Turns Rajiv Jha (C) 5109 Chhattisgarh; T Sundararaman (F) 3674 (Ed) 2952 Endemic to Development: Police Killings in INFLATION Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Unprincipled Kalinga Nagar; Ranjana Padhi and Does the Budget Matter in Pakistan? Positions (Ed) 536 Nagraj Adve (C) 186 S Akbar Zaidi (C) 2512 Journey from Pokhran-II to Hyde Act; Growing Services in India: An Inter-Sectoral Indian Experience of Inflation: A Review of T Jayaraman (C) 5216 Analysis Based on State-Level Data; the Evolving Process; R K Pattnaik and Nuclear Deal: US Designs, India’s Choices Deepita Chakravarty (SA) 3061 Amaresh Samantaraya (SA) 349 (Ed) 5204 Indian Industry: Aftermath of Reforms; Inflation Targeting: International Whither Nuclear Power? Anshu Bharadwaj; J C Sandesara (BR) 800 Experience and Prospects for India; Rahul Tongia and V S Arunachalam Industrial Sickness: Trends and Patterns; Kanhaiya Singh (F) 2958 (SA) 1203 Rosemary K Abraham and G Omkarnath Inflation Targeting: Much Ado about World Economy, Geopolitics and Global (SA) 4161 Something; Deena Khatkhate (F) 5031 Strategy: Indo-US Relations in the 21st Is the Role of Banks as Financial INFORMAL SECTOR Century; Arvind Virmani (SA) 4601 Intermediaries Decreasing? A Helicopter ‘Invisibility’ Continues? Social Security INDIAN OCEAN Tour; A S Ramasastri and N K and Unpaid Women Workers; Towards Universalism: A Historiographical Unnikrishnan (SA) 1063 N Neetha (F) 3497 Advance; Rajat Kanta Ray (BR) 4035 Political Economy of West Bengal: Can the Best Be the Enemy of Good, If the INDIRECT TAXES A Puzzle and a Hypothesis; Good Is Not Good Enough? Which Way for Indirect Taxes? Sukumar Abhirup Sarkar (SA) 341 T S Sankaran (F) 3491 Mukhopadhyay (C) 1324 South Korea: The Miracle Unmasked; Collective Care Arrangements in the Eric Toussaint (SA) 4211 Informal Labour Market: Road Transport Asian Tsunami: Measuring Relief (Ed) 5292 INDUSTRIAL POLICY Workers in Pakistan; Zeenat Hisam INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS Competition Policy and Practice in Canada: (SA) 2099 Twenty Years after Chernobyl: Salient Features and Some Perspectives Decent Work Deficits in Informal Economy: Debates and Lessons; M V Ramana (C) 1743 for India; K V Ramaswamy (SA) 1903 Case of Surat; Paula Kantor; Rani Uma INDUSTRIAL BANKS From 50 Years Ago (May 5, 1956): and Jeemol Unni (SA) 2089 From 50 Years Ago (April 14, 1956): Reaffirmation of Welfare State (Ed) 1733 Deprived Castes and Privileged Politics: An ICIC and Minstry of Finance (Ed) 1405 Indian Industry: Aftermath of Reforms; Urban Informal Market in Contemporary INDUSTRIAL CREDIT J C Sandesara (BR) 800 India; Kaveri Gill (SA) 133 Commercial Bank Lending to Small-Scale Women’s Protests in Singur; Members Khonj Employment and Poverty in India During Industry; K S Ramachandra Rao; Ekhon Porishod (LE) 5290 the 1990s: Is there a Diverging Trend? Abhiman Das and Arvind Kumar Singh INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION Sanjay K Hansda and Partha Ray (SA) 3014 (SA) 1025 Water Quality Bridging the Ganga Action Evaluating NCEUS Social Security Proposals From 50 Years Ago (April 14, 1956): Plan: Monitoring Failure at Kanpur; in Light of International Experience; ICIC and Minstry of Finance (Ed) 1405 Praveen Singh (F) 590 Philip O’keefe and Robert Palacios (F) 3483

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Gender, Households and Poverty: Tracking Outsourcing Identities: Call Centres and Wages of Counter-Insurgency (Ed) 935 Mediations of Macro Adjustment Cultural Transformation in India; INTELLECTUALS Programmes; Lakshmi Lingam (SA) 1989 Divya C McMillin (SA) 235 Fashioning Development; Tirthankar Roy Guha Niyogi; A K Dasgupta (LE) 760 Outsourcing the American Dream? (BR) 1247 Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global Representing the Stakes of IT Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and Picture; Martha Chen; Joann Vanek and Globalisation; Mobina Hashmi (SA) 242 Environmental Change: Origins and James Heintz (SA) 2131 Regulatory Supervision of Emerging Evolution of Global Environmental Is Legislation the Only Solution? Technologies: A Case for Nanotechnology History, 1676-2000: Part I; Richard Grove A V Jose (F) 3480 in India; Nupur Chowdhury (C) 4730 and Vinita Damodaran (SA) 4345 Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Science and the Right to Information; INTER-STATE RELATIONS Households; Arup Mitra (SA) 2123 Madhav Gadgil (SA) 1895 A Call for Paradigm Shift: From Competition A Major National Initiative; K P Kannan, Telecommunications and Growth: Causal to Cooperation; Gopal Krishan (C) 872 Ravi Srivastava and Arjun Sengupta Model, Quantitative and Qualitative INTEREST RATES (F) 3477 Evidence; Kala Seetharam Sridhar and The 1999 Brazilian Financial Crisis: A Model for Social Security (Ed) 3551 Varadharajan Sridhar (SA) 2611 ‘Macho-Monetarism’ in Action; Need to Universalise Social Security; What Does It Take to Become a Software Gabriel Palma (SA) 727 Ravi Duggal (F) 3495 Professional? Anirudh Krishna and Basel II and Bank Lending Behaviour: Some Policies and Programmes for Employment; Vijay Brihmadesam (SA) 3307 Likely Implications for Monetary Policy; S Mahendra Dev (P) 1511 Why Unions Fail in Organising India’s Partha Ray; Saibal Ghosh and Putting the Cart before a Non-Existent BPO-ITES Industry; D M Nachane (SA) 1053 Horse; V M Rao; D Rajasekhar and Amandeep Sandhu (C) 4319 Buying Time (Ed) 1491 J Y Suchitra (F) 3488 INFORMATION SOCIETY Case for Government Direction on Interest Size of Informal Sector; Arup Mitra (D) 2682 Framing a Global Information Society Rates; EPW Research Foundation Unorganised Labour Delhi’s Twin Tragedies; Discourse; Parminder Jeet Singh (MMR) 3632 Moushumi Basu (C) 784 and Anita Gurumurthy (C) 876 Curtailing Capability of NABARD; Unorganised Sector Workers’ Social Security INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 4396 Bill, 2005: Let Us Not Go Backwards!; Eminent Domain or Eminent Thievery? Dear Money Policy, Rising Yields and High Indira Hirway (C) 379 Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor; Interest Costs; EPW Research Foundation Unorganised Sector Workforce in India: V Ranganathan (C) 2697 (MMR) 3268 Trends, Patterns and Social Security Underdevelopment by Design? Exuberance in Financial Markets: Towards Coverage; S Sakthivel and Pinaki Joddar Undermining Vital Infrastructure in What End? EPW Research Foundation (SA) 2107 Orissa; Keshab Das (SA) 642 (MMR) 5208 Unorganised Workers: Deprivation, Social Whither Urban Renewal? Partha Interest Rate Hike: Dictates of Caution Security Needs, Policy Implications; Mukhopadhyay (P) 879 (Ed) 3264 V M Rao; D Rajasekhar and J Y Suchitra INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE Is Not the Current Growth Cycle Driven by (SA) 1913 BMIC Road to Nowhere (Ed) 2509 Bank Credit? EPW Research Foundation INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION Diversification towards High Value (MMR) 4840 TECHNOLOGY Agriculture: Role of Urbanisation and Money and Forex Markets: Volatile The ‘Demographic Dividend’ and Young Infrastructure; P K Joshi; P Parthasarathy Short-Term Rates; Clearing Corporation of India’s Economic Future; Rao and P S Birthal (SA) 2747 India Limited (CS) 457 C P Chandrasekhar; Jayati Ghosh and Failure on the Rationality Front; Sanjay Movements in the Exchange Rate: Trends in Anamitra Roychowdhury (SA) 5055 Kumar (LE) 3130 New Indices of Nominal and Effective Banking on the Bangalore Dream; Municipal Bond Market for Financing Rates; EPW Research Foundation Asha Ghosh (C) 689 Urban Infrastructure; (MMR) 178 Benign Neglect or Strategic Intent? Soumyadip Chattopadhyay (SA) 2787 National Interest: A Flawed Notion: Contested Lineage of Indian Software Priority in Infrastructure Projects; Indian Foreign Policy since 1991; Industry; Pulapre Balakrishnan (SA) 3865 S Subramanyan (LE) 290 Achin Vanaik Cross-Country Comparisons of Software Public-Private Partnership: New Reform (P) 5045 Growth; M Vijayabaskar (BR) 1345 Mantra; E A S Sarma (BR) 4956 Need for Flexibility in Financial Sector Engineering Colleges, ‘Exposure’ and Telecommunications and Growth: Causal Reform; EPW Research Foundation Information Technology Professionals in Model, Quantitative and Qualitative (MMR) 4000 Tamil Nadu; C J Fuller and Haripriya Evidence; Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Pitfalls of Synchronisation with Global Policy Narasimhan (SA) 258 Varadharajan Sridhar (SA) 2611 Trends; EPW Research Foundation Framing a Global Information Society INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS (MMR) 2404 Discourse; Parminder Jeet Singh and At the Threshold of 10 Per Cent Economic INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Anita Gurumurthy (C) 876 Growth? Parthasarathi Shome (C) 943 Brazil’s External Policy; R Viswanathan Garden City to Technopole; INSURANCE (F) 685 James Heitzman (BR) 403 Life Insurance Corporation of India: Death Sentence to Saddam Hussein; Gender and Work in the ‘Digital Economy’; A Business Profile (January 28, 2006); P A Sebastian (C) 5311 Sujata Gothoskar (BR) 1517 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 295 France Politics of Reform (Ed) 1405 Innovation Systems in India’s IT Industry: INSURGENCY From 50 Years Ago (July 28, 2006): An Empirical Investigation; ‘Counter-insurgencies’ in Pakistan; Towards Co-existance (Ed) 3265 Rey A L Taganas and Vijay Kumar Kaul Haris Gazdar (C) 1952 Israel’s Failure in Lebanon; Sukumar (SA) 4178 Rethinking India’s Counter-insurgency Muralidharan (C) 4018 Organising Call Centre Agents: Emerging Campaign in North-East; Sanjay Barbora Lula at the Crossroads? Workers’ Party Issues; Ernesto Noronha and (SA) 3805 and Political Crisis in Brazil; Premilla D’Cruz (SA) 2115 Sri Lanka: A Ceasefire in Fragments (Ed) 3449 Gianpaolo Baiocchi (F) 675

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Lula Government and the Brazilian Political Liquid Bomb Hoax: Larger Implications; INTERNET Scenario; Carlos Edardo Martins (F) 681 James Petras (C) 3850 Science and the Right to Information; Northern Ireland Six Women and the IRA; Listening for Echoes: Partition in Three Madhav Gadgil (SA) 1895 Sajal Nag (C) 699 Contexts; Eyal Ben-Ari and Web Library; Aman Kumar Jha (LE) 660 Orthodox Economic Policies of the Lula Smita Tewari Jassal (F) 2213 A Web Library of Research Output; Administration; Marcelo Dias Carcanholo Lula at the Crossroads? Workers’ Party V Srinivasan (C) 312 (F) 679 and Political Crisis in Brazil; INVESTMENT Pakistan’s Absent Democracy; Gianpaolo Baiocchi (F) 675 Indian Investments Abroad: What Explains S M Naseem (D) 756 Lula Government and the Brazilian the Boom? R Nagaraj (C) 4716 Palestine: ‘Homecoming’ of Hamas; Political Scenario; Carlos Edardo Martins A Model of Exports and Investment in an S S Tabraz (C) 566 (F) 681 Open Developing Economy; Rajiv Jha Political Transition in Bhutan; Nature of the Zionist Beast: Lebanon, (SA) 820 Mathew Joseph C (C) 1311 Palestine and Israel’s Scorched Earth IRAN Revisiting Nehruvian Idealism in the Policy; Gabriela Becker (C) 3653 America, Iran and the Nuclear Option; Context of Contemporary Imperialism; Nepal: A People in Transition; Zia Mian (C) 1738 Anirudh Deshpande (SA) 5408 Gautam Navlakha and Controlling the Bomb; Zia Mian (C) 464 Rural Sector under the Lula Government; Anand Swaroop Verma (C) 3470 Iran, US and the Drumbeats of War; Albuquerque Maria Beatriz de David and Non-Aligned Movement: A Southern Sukumar Muralidharan (C) 1619 Paula de Andrade Rollo (F) 683 People’s Front? (Ed) 3996 Sweet Reasonableness (Ed) 2399 Way Forward for Left in Latin America? Northern Ireland Six Women and the IRA; IRAN-IRAQ RELATIONS Sujatha Fernandes (F) 3344 Sajal Nag (C) 699 Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge; INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS Notes on the Histories of History in the Ramesh Thakur (P) 3297 Dancing with Neoliberals; Balakrishnan Soviet Union; Arup Banerji (SA) 826 IRAQ Pulapre (BR) 1448 Nuclear North Korea (Ed) 4303 Bush’s War; Zia Mian (C) 1161 World Economy, Geopolitics and Orthodox Economic Policies of the Lula Bush’s War on Terror; A V Rajwade (C) 4863 Global Strategy: Indo-US Relations in the Administration; Child Mortality in Iraq since 1990; 21st Century; Arvind Virmani (SA) 4601 Marcelo Dias Carcanholo (F) 679 Tim Dyson (SA) 4487 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Pakistan’s Absent Democracy; Choosing War, Confronting Defeat; IMF Quota Increase: Indefensible Decision; S M Naseem (D) 756 Zia Mian (F) 4234 Raghbendra Jha (C) 4103 Predicament of Political Change; The Dead in Iraq and the War of Numbers; INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS Jayadeva Uyangoda (C) 1496 Vinay Lal (F) 5028 Globalisation and War in Ivory Coast; Rural Sector under the Lula Government; Iraqi Resistance Gets a Breather; Peter Custers (C) 1844 Albuquerque Maria Beatriz de David K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 2705 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM and Paula de Andrade Rollo (F) 683 Meditation on Haditha; Kurt Jacobsen Apology of Quota Reform (Ed) 3995 Settlements and Disputes: China’s and Sayeed Hasan Khan (C) 3849 IMF Quota Increase: Indefensible Decision; Approach to Territorial Issues; Saddam Trial: Exploring the Raghbendra Jha (C) 4103 Neville Maxwell (SA) 3873 Etymology of Hate (Ed) 4632 INTERNATIONAL LAW State Weakness and State Failure: Genesis Torture and War on Terror; Death Sentence to Saddam Hussein; and Consequences; Anindya Saha and Itty Abraham (F) 4102 P A Sebastian (C) 5311 Siddharth Mallavarpu (RA) 4257 IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Sudan Stumbling towards Peace (Ed) 1936 Arcelor Mittal Emergence of a Giant The ‘Ides’ of April: Lessons from Nepal; Sweet Reasonableness (Ed) 2399 (Ed) 2692 Sumanta Banerjee (C) 1831 Thai Coup in Hot Soup; Satya Sagar (C) 4544 From 50 Years Ago (December 22,1956): A ‘New Regional Order’? (Ed) 3339 Trade Treaties and US Hegemony in the Russian Aid for Steel (Ed) 5205 From 50 Years Ago (August 4, 2006): Americas; Sujatha Fernandes (C) 1954 From Yoghurt to Steel: French Economic Suez and Sovereignty (Ed) 3341 Tribute Strini Moodley’s Legacy; Nationalism in Defensive Mode; America and the Israel Lobby (C) 3651 M S Prabhakara (C) 2197 John Roberts (C) 2531 Bangladesh ‘Home-Grown’ Democracy; US: Mid-term Lessons (Ed) 4712 Mittal Steel Carnegie Strategy? (Ed) 1148 Moazzem Hossain (C) 791 Why Blame the Military? S Akbar Zaidi Orissa Ongoing Brutality (Ed) 84 Bolivia What Next? (Ed) 4 (F) 4642 Steel Not Enough? Manshi Asher (C) 555 Brazil’s External Policy; R Viswanathan World Economy, Geopolitics and Global Tata Steel: Oligopoly Watch (Ed) 4524 (F) 685 Strategy: Indo-US Relations in the 21st IRRIGATION Britain: The Party that Blair Built (Ed) 4228 Century; Arvind Virmani (SA) 4601 ‘Jalayagnam’ and Bridging Regional Bugti and the Baloch Cause; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Disparities: Irrigation Development and Haris Gazdar (F) 4100 Bangladesh: ‘Home-Grown’ Democracy; Distribution in Andhra Pradesh; Central Asia: Great Game Replayed? Moazzem Hossain (C) 791 V Ratna Reddy (SA) 4613 R G Gidadhubli (BR) 131 Culture, Identity and International Are Wells a Potential Threat to Farmers’ Democracy Contained; Saroj Giri (C) 1752 Relations; Rajan Harshe (P) 3945 Well-being? Case of Deteriorating Emerging Political Equations in Nepal; Settlements and Disputes: China’s Groundwater Irrigation in Tamil Nadu; Muchkund Dubey (C) 4414 Approach to Territorial Issues; S Janakarajan and Marcus Moench How Americans See the US; Zia Mian (C) 12 Neville Maxwell (SA) 3873 (SA) 3977 Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge; INTERNATIONAL TRADE Centrality of Agriculture to India’s Ramesh Thakur (P) 3297 Impasse at the WTO: A Development Economic Development; Iraqi Resistance Gets a Breather; Perspective; Martin Khor (F) 4659 N A Mujumdar (P) 31 K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 2705 Issues on in Environmental Goods and Contending Water Uses: Biodiversity vs Israel in Lebanon: Wreaking Havoc and Services; Archana S Mathur and Irrigation: Case of Keoladeo Violence; Sukumar Muralidharan (C) 3277 Pradeep Kr Guin (SA) 4675 National Park; Malavika Chauhan (F) 575

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Equity, Access and Allocation Discrimination Jammu and Kashmir New Necessary A Difficult Match: Women’s Actions and in an Irrigation Project; S N Lele and Gestures (Ed) 2044 Legal Institutions in the Face of Domestic R K Patil (F) 583 Jammu and Kashmir: Framework for a Violence; A Suneetha and Vasudha Nagaraj Half-hearted Attention to Agriculture; Final Settlement; Iqbal A Ansari (C) 3642 (SA) 4355 S Mahendra Dev (C) 1327 Jammu and Kashmir: Knee-jerk Reaction; Is the Institution of District Magistrate Institutions, Technology and Water Control; Gautam Navlakha (C) 3759 Still Necessary? D Bandyopadhyay Jasveen Jairath (BR) 2305 Jammu and Kashmir: Pilgrim’s Progress (C) 4851 Micro-Level Disputes Gravity Dam in Causes Regression; Gautam Navlakha Judicial Accountability or Illusion? Trouble: Forest Officials Who Missed the (C) 2975 Prashant Bhushan (C) 4847 Wood for the Trees; Chandan Sinha and Kashmir Roundtable Conference Judicial Pronouncements and Caste; Nandita Singh (F) 594 Turnaround or Downturn? Rakesh Shukla (C) 4411 Peri-Urban Agriculture and Aquaculture; Gautam Navlakha (C) 947 Justice: Crime and Acquittal (Ed) 845 Rahul Gupta and Sumita Gupta Kashmir: Sidelining the Separatists; Maharashtra: The Business of Banning Gangopadhyay (C) 1757 Balraj Puri (C) 4017 (Ed) 1600 IRRIGATION POLICY AND MANAGEMENT Letters (June 24, 2006); Anand Mumbai Crimes: Justice Denied (Ed) 3996 ‘Jalayagnam’ and Bridging Regional Chandavarkar; M Ram Naveen; Arup Of Criminals, Martyrs and Innocents; Disparities: Irrigation Development Kumar Sen; Anagha Deodhar and Abhinav Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5105 and Distribution in Andhra Pradesh; Alakshendra Bhargavi (LE) 2506 Resolving Business Disputes Speedily; V Ratna Reddy (SA) 4613 Pakistan Administered Kashmir Complex Anurag K Agarwal (C) 2417 Equity, Access and Allocation Discrimination Socio-Political Set-up; Luv Puri (C) 780 Restorative Justice; B Rajeshwari (LE) 1222 in an Irrigation Project; S N Lele and People’s Resilience; K N Raj (LE) 3130 Rights of the Poor: An Overview of R K Patil (F) 583 JAPAN Supreme Court; Rakesh Shukla (C) 3755 ISLAM Economic Growth, Labour Markets and Rights, Reforms and Justice: An Essential Cartoon Protests: Religion and Freedom Gender in Japan; Uma Rani (SA) 4369 Handbook; K S Subramanian (BR) 621 (Ed) 536 Japan and India Making Up for the Lost Saddam Trial: Exploring the Etymology Experiencing Islam, British Style; Kurt Decade; Vivek Pinto (C) 2518 of Hate (Ed) 4632 Jacobsen and Sayeed Hasan Khan (C) 395 Japanese Economic Recovery and the Some Constitutional Dilemmas; Indian Muslims Past, Present and Future; Macroeconomic Policy Mix; Ramaswamy R Iyer (P) 2064 J S Bandukwala (P) 1341 Sukanya Bose (SA) 3535 Supreme Court on Medical Negligence; Islamic Education for Girls; Yoginder Nuclear North Korea (Ed) 4303 Karunakaran Mathiharan (C) 111 Sikand (BR) 3774 A Strategic Partnership between India and Truth on Its Way to Half a Victory; Reinterpreting Madrasas; Arjumand Ara Japan? Vivek Pinto (C) 5299 Sukumar Mukhopadhyay (C) 563 (BR) 2544 JAYALALITHAA, J Zahira Shaikh ‘Victim’ of Justice; Uma Understanding Islam; Abdul Salam (BR) 2307 Assembly Elections Changing Dynamics in Chakravarti; Nirantar; Saheli Sama; Waiting for Enlightenment; Pervez Tamil Nadu; V Krishna Ananth (C) 1232 Farah Naqvi and Pratiksha Baxi (LE) 934 Hoodbhoy (F) 3136 JEWS KALDOR COMMITTEE Why Is the Veil Such a Contentious Issue? Historical Amnesia: The Romani From 50 Years Ago (December 15, 1956): Imtiaz Ahmad (C) 5037 Holocaust; C R Sridhar (C) 3569 The Kaldor Report (Ed) 5097 ISRAEL JHARKHAND KANNADA ‘Final Borders’ and ‘Security Zones’ in Employment Guarantee in Jharkhand: Bush and Basaveshvara; GPD (F) 3835; 5012 Palestine: Israeli Plans for a Bantustan Ground Realities; Bela Bhatia and KANPUR ‘State’; Gabriela Becker (C) 1237 Jean Dreze (F) 3198 Business Conduct in Late Colonial India: A ‘New Regional Order’? (Ed) 3339 Forest Bill 2005 and Tribal Areas: Case of European Business in Kanpur 1900-1939; Cross-Country Comparisons of Software Jharkhand; Ritambhara Hebbar (F) 4952 Biswajit Chatterjee and Manali Growth; M Vijayabaskar (BR) 1345 Implementation of ICDS in Bihar and Chakrabarti (SA) 904 Israel in Lebanon: Wreaking Havoc Jharkhand; Nandini Nayak and Water Quality Bridging the Ganga Action and Violence; Sukumar Muralidharan Naresh C Saxena (F) 3680 Plan: Monitoring Failure at Kanpur; (C) 3277 Letters (June 10, 2006); Prabhat Kumar; Praveen Singh (F) 590 Israel’s Failure in Lebanon; Sukumar K Ravi Srinivas (LE) 2274 KARGIL CONFLICT Muralidharan (C) 4018 Micro-Level Disputes Failure of Community More Questions than Answers; Listening for Echoes: Partition in Three Institutions: Shapin River Basin in Madhav Godbole (BR) 4667 Contexts; Eyal Ben-Ari and Jharkhand; Pankaj Lal; Kamaldeo Singh KARNATAKA Smita Tewari Jassal (F) 2213 and Kapildeo Prasad (F) 598 Contract Labour in Karnataka: Emerging Nature of the Zionist Beast: Lebanon, JOURNALISM Issues and Options; Meenakshi Rajeev Palestine and Israel’s Scorched Earth The Media: Politics, Ethics and the Law; (SA) 2086 Policy; Gabriela Becker (C) 3653 A G Noorani (BR) 483 Desi: Story of Many Threads; Poonam Bir Palestine: ‘Homecoming’ of Hamas; JOURNALISTS Kasturi; Swati Unakar; Rolf Marren and S S Tabraz (C) 566 The Constitution and Journalists’ Sources; Suhana Medappa (F) 3369 West Asia Challenge of Hamas (Ed) 372 A G Noorani (CL) 2964 Eminent Domain or Eminent Thievery? JAINS JUDICIARY Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching Amending India’s Competition Act; Aditya Corridor; V Ranganathan (C) 2697 History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Bhattacharjea (C) 4314 Empowering Soliga Tribes: ‘Sudarshan Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 Auditing the Supreme Court; A G Noorani Model’ of Karnataka; Ashish Bose (C) 564 JAMMU AND KASHMIR (BR) 4340 Evaluation of Computerisation of Land Jammu and Kashmir Changed Political Best Bakery Case Welcome Judgment Records in Karnataka: A Study from Scenario; Rekha Chowdhary and (Ed) 768 Gulbarga District; A P Singh and V Nagendra Rao (C) 1963 Constitutional Separation Strained (Ed) 4631 Manoj Ahuja (SA) 69

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Fishing in Federal Waters; Transformation of Central Grants to States: Leaving Labour? Some British Impressions of Nagesh Prabhu (C) 3467 Growing Conditionality and Bypassing Indian Academic Employment Karnataka: The Muted Anti-Reservation State Budgets; Subhash Chandra Garg Relations; Peter Ackers (SA) 4187 Agitation; Muzaffar Assadi (C) 3146 (F) 4977 A Model for Social Security (Ed) 3551 Musical Notions; Amanda Weidman The Ways of Faith: Zenana Mission in Need to Universalise Social Security; (BR) 3003 Trivandrum, 1864-1964; G S Jayasree Ravi Duggal (F) 3495 Rajkumar and Kannada Nationalism; (SA) 1669 Putting the Cart before a Non-Existent K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 1834 Where Women Prevail: 2001 Census and Horse; V M Rao; D Rajasekhar and Sand Mining Groundwater Depletion Female Heads of Households; J Y Suchitra (F) 3488 in Papagani Catchment; Ashish Bose (C) 2192 Travails of Workers Today; M Chandrasekhara Rao (F) 593 Why Do the States Not Spend? An Srabani Ghosh (LE) 1598 Sordid Democratic Process (Ed) 371 Exploration of the Phenomenon of Unorganised Labour Delhi’s Twin Tragedies; Sudarshan Model; Manu N Kulkarni Cash Surpluses and the FRBM Legislation; Moushumi Basu (C) 784 (LE) 842 T M Thomas Isaac and R Ramakumar LABOUR LAWS AND LEGISLATIONS Unorganised Workers: Deprivation, Social (F) 4965 Contract Labour in Karnataka: Emerging Security Needs, Policy Implications; KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS Issues and Options; V M Rao; D Rajasekhar and J Y Suchitra The Critics Are Not Keynesian Enough: Meenakshi Rajeev (SA) 2086 (SA) 1913 Fiscal Responsibility and Growth; Flexibility, Employment and Labour Where Women Prevail: 2001 Census and Errol D’Souza (F) 4565 Market Reforms in India; Female Heads of Households; The Politics of Sound Finance; Alakh N Sharma (SA) 2078 Ashish Bose (C) 2192 Amit Bhaduri (F) 4569 France Politics of Reform (Ed) 1405 KASHMIR DISPUTE KHANNA COMMITTEE Undocumented Workers in the US; From 50 Years Ago (April 21, 1956): Condoning Unplanned Development: Sharat G Lin (F) 4867 Inter-related Issues (Ed) 1493 Reviewing the Khanna Committee Unorganised Sector Workers’ Social India-Pakistan Relations: Another Initiative? Report; Ashok Kumar (C) 4105 Security Bill, 2005: Let Us Not Go (Ed) 1224 KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY Backwards!; Indira Hirway (C) 379 Kashmir Roundtable Conference Turnaround Towards a Knowledge-Based Society; Women and Work: After the Law (Ed) 4304 or Downturn? Gautam Navlakha (C) 947 J V Deshpande (C) 3933 LABOUR MARKET Rajouri: Seeds of a Silent Revolution; KOLKATA Changing Labour Institutions; K R Shyam D Suba Chandran (C) 2979 Calcutta Slaughterhouse Colonial and Sundar (BR) 204 KERALA Post-Colonial Experiences; Samiparna Collective Care Arrangements in the Analysis of Farmer Suicides in Kerala; Samanta (SA) 1999 Informal Labour Market: Road S Mohanakumar and R K Sharma (F) 1553 Empowerment of Sex Workers: The Kolkata Transport Workers in Pakistan; Assembly Polls 2006 A Foregone Experience; Swati Ghosh (D) 1289 Zeenat Hisam (SA) 2099 Outcome in Kerala? P S Nirmala (C) 866 Kolkata’s Changing Puja Ethos; Decent Work Deficits in Informal Economy: Economic Growth in the Regime of Chandikaprosad Ghosal (C) 4727 Case of Surat; Paula Kantor; Rani Uma Reforms: Kerala’s Experience; Peri-Urban Agriculture and Aquaculture; and Jeemol Unni (SA) 2089 K K Subrahmanian (P) 885 Rahul Gupta and Sumita Gupta Economic Growth, Labour Markets and Economic Man, the Fourth Estate and Gangopadhyay (C) 1757 Gender in Japan; Uma Rani (SA) 4369 CPI(M) in Kerala; K T Rammohan (C) 3649 Towards Urban Multi-Airport Systems; Flexibility, Employment and Labour Gender, Ageing and Social Security; Philip S Thomas (C) 4326 Market Reforms in India; Meena Gopal (SA) 4477 KOREA, NORTH Alakh N Sharma (SA) 2078 Housewife, Sex Worker and Reformer: North Korea Test as Spur to Nuclear Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Controversies over Women Writing Their Disarmament; Ramesh Thakur (C) 4403 Households; Arup Mitra (SA) 2123 Lives in Kerala; J Devika (SA) 1675 Nuclear North Korea (Ed) 4303 Social Inequality, Labour Market Human-Related Constraints in Protected KOREA, SOUTH Dynamics and Reservation; Area Management: Manifestations and South Korea: The Miracle Unmasked; Mritiunjoy Mohanty (SA) 3777 Causatives; V Anitha; A S Binilkumar Eric Toussaint (SA) 4211 Undocumented Workers in the US; and P K Muraleedharan (SA) 919 LABOUR Sharat G Lin (F) 4867 Kerala: A Left Turn; K G Kumar (C) 2051 ‘Invisibility’ Continues? Social Security LABOUR POLICY Kerala Elections and After; and Unpaid Women Workers; Contract Labour in Karnataka: Emerging K Haridas (C) 2053 N Neetha (F) 3497 Issues and Options; Meenakshi Rajeev Kerala Intra-Party Differences; Can the Best Be the Enemy of Good, (SA) 2086 K Haridas (C) 1234 If the Good Is Not Good Enough? Flexibility, Employment and Labour Market Kerala’s Plachimada Struggle: A Narrative T S Sankaran (F) 3491 Reforms in India; Alakh N Sharma on Water and Governance Rights; Collective Care Arrangements in the (SA) 2078 C R Bijoy (F) 4332 Informal Labour Market: Road Transport LAKSHADWEEP Lease Farming in Kerala: Findings from Workers in Pakistan; Zeenat Hisam Tyranny of Distance: State of Economy of Micro Level Studies; K N Nair and (SA) 2099 Lakshadweep; P D Jeromi (C) 3291 Vineetha Menon (SA) 2732 Evaluating NCEUS Social Security LAND HOLDINGS AND OWNERSHIP Making Space for Feminist Social Critique Proposals in Light of International The ‘Other’ Tragedy (Ed) 5019 in Contemporary Kerala; J Devika Experience; Philip O’keefe and Robert ‘Rent a State’ Economics; AM (LE) 766 and Mini Sukumar (SA) 4469 Palacios (F) 3483 Corporate Greed and People’s Livelihood; NREGA implementation – I: Reasonable Harsh Reality of Workers Today; Hiren Gohain (LE) 4926 Beginning in Palakkad, Kerala; Vidyadhar Date (C) 1169 Fencing over Singur (Ed) 5203 Arun Jacob and Richard Varghese Is Legislation the Only Solution? Government, Industry and Farmland; (C) 4943 A V Jose (F) 3480 Satya Sivaraman; Ravindra Garia;

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Kapil Sharma; Radhika Menon and An Oriya Village and the Battle of Plassey: LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES Azim Sherwani (LE) 3446 Senapati’s Allegory of the Raj; Brazil’s External Policy; R Viswanathan Land Question in Assam; H Gohain Paul L Sawyer (F) 4782 (F) 685 (LE) 3820 Representation of Women and Gender Case against Rushing into Full Capital Land Question in Assam: A Short Note; Relations in Six Acres and a Third; Account Convertibility; Partha Sen (F) 1853 Hiren Gohain (C) 3459 Claire Horan (F) 4789 Currency Sovereignty and Policy Land Struggle in Singur; Arup Kumar Sen Sanskrit Speakers; Arvind Sharma (LE) 82 Independence: Argentina after (LE) 3994 Satire, Literary Realism and the Indian State: Abandoning the Currency Board; Myopic Development (Ed) 1147 Six Acres and a Third and Raag Darbari; L Randall Wray (F) 1857 On Repealing the Urban Land Ceiling Act; Ulka Anjaria (F) 4795 Data Exclusivity in Pharmaceuticals: Little Simpreet Singh (C) 698 A Subaltern’s Tale; Anu Kumar (BR) 4123 Basis, False Claims; Biswajit Dhar and Peasant Hares and Capitalist Hounds of Vernacular Writings on the Sikhs; K M Gopakumar (SA) 5073 Singur; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5296 K L Tuteja (BR) 35 Economic Growth: Some Reflections; Violence in Singur; A Reader (LE) 5088 Vinda Karandikar: Deserving the Jnanpith; Shankar Acharya (P) 4573 A Visit to Two ‘Flaming Fields’ of Bihar; Vidyadhar Date (C) 316 Flawed Logic of Capital Account Liberalisation; D Bandyopadhyay (C) 5302 Why Does Literature Matter? Rosinka Amitva Krishna Dutt (F) 1850 West Bengal: Land Acquisition and Peasant Chaudhuri (BR) 893 A Model of Exports and Investment in an Resistance at Singur; Parthasarathi LATIN AMERICA Open Developing Economy; Rajiv Jha Banerjee (C) 4718 Brazil’s External Policy; R Viswanathan (SA) 820 Women’s Protests in Singur; Members Khonj (F) 685 Para 6 of WTO Doha Declaration: Ekhon Porishod (LE) 5290 Latin America: A ‘Red Tide’? (Ed) 5096 Non-Solution of TRIPS Problem; LAND REFORM Lula Government and the Brazilian C Niranjan Rao (C) 301 Distributional Inequities and Resource Political Scenario; Carlos Edardo Policy Space in Historical Perspective with Use Behaviour: Political Economy of Martins (F) 681 Special Reference to Trade and Industrial ‘Ecological Divide’ in Pakistan; Making the Impossible Possible; Policies; Ha-Joon Chang (SA) 627 Tarique Niazi (SA) 4273 Rahul Varman (BR) 3407 Rules for Fair Trade; Dev Nathan (BR) 1893 West Bengal: Land Acquisition and Rural Sector under the Lula Government; Trade Liberalisation and Environmental Peasant Resistance at Singur; Albuquerque Maria Beatriz de David and Protection: Responses of Leather Parthasarathi Banerjee (C) 4718 Paula de Andrade Rollo (F) 683 Industry in Brazil, China and India; LAND USE Undocumented Workers in the US; U Sankar (SA) 2470 Acknowledgement; Seema Purushothaman Sharat G Lin (F) 4867 Tribute Hans Singer (1910-2006): Doyen of (LE) 168 Way Forward for Left in Latin America? Development Economics; Rameshwar Distributional Inequities and Resource Sujatha Fernandes (F) 3344 Tandon (C) 1176 Use Behaviour: Political Economy of LAW AND ORDER LEATHER INDUSTRY ‘Ecological Divide’ in Pakistan; Broken Windows and Zero Tolerance Policing Trade Liberalisation and Environmental Tarique Niazi (SA) 4273 Urban Crimes; C R Sridhar (C) 1841 Protection: Responses of Leather From 50 years Ago (January 14, 1956): Crime and Punishment; Chinmay Industry in Brazil, China and India; Land-The Budget Challenge (Ed) 85 Chakrabarty (BR) 5119 U Sankar (SA) 2470 Integrated Land and Water Use: A Case Killer Gangs in AP; Jeevan Kumar and LEBANON Study of Punjab; A S Bhullar and K Balagopal (LE) 666 A ‘New Regional Order’? (Ed) 3339 R S Sidhu (SA) 5353 Of Criminals, Martyrs and Innocents; Israel in Lebanon: Wreaking Havoc and LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5105 Violence; Sukumar Muralidharan (C) 3277 Bush and Basaveshvara; GPD (F) 3835; 5012 Pakistan: Reforming the Hudood (Ed) 4836 Israel’s Failure in Lebanon; Sukumar Construction of Gender and POTA and the Case of Raja Bhaiya; Muralidharan (C) 4018 Religious Identities in the First Ujjwal Kumar Singh (C) 19 Nature of the Zionist Beast: Lebanon, Punjabi Novel Sundari; Gurpreet Bal Zahira Shaikh ‘Victim’ of Justice; Uma Palestine and Israel’s Scorched Earth (SA) 3528 Chakravarti; Nirantar; Saheli Sama; Policy; Gabriela Becker (C) 3653 Daughters of Mother India in Search of a Farah Naqvi and Pratiksha Baxi (LE) 934 LEGAL AID Nation: Women’s Narratives about the LAWS AND LEGISLATIONS Andhra Pradesh: Institutional Apathy Nation; Jasbir Jain (SA) 1654 Constitutional Separation Strained (Ed) 4631 towards Undertrial Prisoners; Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Discovery from Liberalising the Lease Market; K Murali (C) 3936 Below: Decolonisation and the Search H R Sharma (C) 696 LIBERALISM for Linguistic Authenticity; The Media: Politics, Ethics and the Law; Debt, Hegemony and Globalisation; Gagnendra Nath Dash (F) 4801 A G Noorani (BR) 483 Ramaa Vasudeva (BR) 710 Gender, Caste and Fiction: A Bahujan On Repealing the Urban Land Ceiling Act; Neoliberalism in Egypt’s Informal Economy; Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali; Simpreet Singh (C) 698 Sarasij Majumder (BR) 3863 Ajay Sekher (C) 4422 Right to Information: An Amendment Too Pakistan: Civil and Uncivil Society; Genealogies of Indian Literature; Soon (Ed) 3340 S Akbar Zaidi (F) 3556 P P Raveendran (SA) 2558 LAWYERS LIFE INSURANCE Intellectual Bankruptcy; A Life in the Limelight; Antoinette Burton From 50 years Ago (January 21, 1956): Aniruddha G Kulkarni (LE) 3620 (BR) 4875 Nationalisation of Life Insurance (Ed) 173 Introduction; Satya P Mohanty and LEASING Life Insurance and the Macroeconomy: Harish Trivedi (F) 4780 Lease Farming in Kerala: Findings from Indian Experience; H Sadhak (F) 1108 Language Controversy; Eduardo Faleiro Micro Level Studies; K N Nair and LIFE INSURANCE (LE) 5195 Vineetha Menon (SA) 2732 Life Insurance Corporation of India: Manto’s Open It: Engendering Partition Liberalising the Lease Market; A Business Profile (28 January 2006); Narratives; Shreey Chand (C) 308 H R Sharma (C) 696 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 295

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LITERACY Macroeconomic Fundamentals and Kherlanji: Caste Violence (Ed) 4632 Literacy and Education; Vimala Exchange Rate Dynamics in India: Some Maharashtra Politics of Frustrations, Ramachandran (C) 4853 Survey Results; N R Bhanumurthy (F) 1101 Anxieties and Outrage; Rajeshwari Riddle of Population Growth: Deceleration MADHYA PRADESH Deshpande (C) 1304 in Andhra Pradesh during 1991-2001; Bastar, Maoism and Salwa Judum; Maharashtra The Business of Banning Sanjay Kumar and N K Sharma (SA) 4507 Nandini Sundar (F) 3187 (Ed) 1600 Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: Dams and Displacement: When Multiple Narayan, Thou Hast Done the Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; Conflicts Overlap: Haribad Project in Extraordinary!; GPD (F) 5215 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 4261 Madhya Pradesh; Rehmat and Shripad Power of the People: Political Mobilisation LIVESTOCK Dharmadhikary (F) 603 and Guaranteed Employment; Value of Output from Agriculture and Madhya Pradesh Socio-economic Base of Shaji Joseph (F) 5149 Livestock; EPW Research Foundation Political Dynamics; Rahul Banerjee (D) 78 Regional Structures, Growth and (CS) 3343 Narmada and the Myth of Rehabilitation; Convergence of Income in Maharashtra; LOCAL GOVERNMENT Mike Levien (F) 3581 Abdul Shaban (SA) 1803 BMIC Road to Nowhere (Ed) 2509 Political Dynamics in Madhya Pradesh; Relief Package for Farmers: Can It Stop Decentralisation and Democracy; Shaibal Gupta (D) 1723 Suicides? A Narayanamoorthy (C) 3353 Yamini Aiyar (BR) 4873 Rehwa: Maheshwari Handloom Weavers; Revival of Dabhol Power Project; Neither Public-Private nor a Private Public: Nikhil Mathur (F) 3382 V Ranganathan (LE) 4094 It’s We the People; Hari Ram (D) 366 MADRAS Terrorism: A Town in Maharashtra Representation and Development in Musical Notions; Amanda Weidman (Ed) 3912 Urban Peripheries: Reflections on (BR) 3003 Towards Economic Empowerment of Governance in Ahmedabad Suburbs; MADRASAS Urban Local Bodies in Maharashtra; Indrajit Roy (SA) 4363 Islamic Education for Girls; Abhay Pethe and Mala Lalvani (SA) 635 Towards Economic Empowerment of Yoginder Sikand (BR) 3774 MALAYSIA Urban Local Bodies in Maharashtra; Madrasas Misunderstood; Arshad Alan Multiculturalism at Risk: The Indian Abhay Pethe and Mala Lalvani (SA) 635 (LE) 370 Minority in Malaysia; Vinay Lal (C) 3764 LOK SABHA Reinterpreting Madrasas; Arjumand Ara Paying the Social Debt; Sukhdeo Thorat Delimitation in India: Methodological (BR) 2544 (F) 2432 Issues; A K Verma (P) 794 MAHARASHTRA MALEGAON Incumbency and Parliamentary Elections in After Khairlanji: Dalits and the State Death by Mining (Ed) 3911 India: An Analysis of the Congress Party’s (Ed) 5020 Terrorism: A Town in Maharashtra Electoral Performance, 1962-1999; Aftershocks of Dabhol Power Project; (Ed) 3912 Vani Kant Borooah (SA) 739 Madhav Godbole and E A S Sarma (C) 3640 Unequal Compensation to Victims; Salvaging an Endangered Institution; Ambedkar and the Linguistic States: Iqbal A Ansari (LE) 3994 Sumanta Banerjee (C) 3837 A Case for Maharashtra; Asha Sarangi MANAGEMENT EDUCATION Upswing of Congress Party? (Ed) 3627 (SA) 151 Expansion of IIMs: Myths, Realities and LTTE Challenge to Public Health (Ed) 667 Policy Choices; Ramesh Gupta (C) 2971 Being ‘Tamil’: Proceedings of a Conference; A Critique of Healthcare Policy in India; MANDAL COMMISSION V Geetha (C) 3154 Kannamma Raman (BR) 4579 Merits of Mandal II (Ed) 1403 Conflict and Development in Sri Lanka; Elite Politics and Maharashtra’s Employment MANGROVES Peter Schalk (BR) 4438 Guarantee Scheme; Vishal Jadhav (F) 5157 Mangrove Conservation Efforts and the Danger of False Clarities: Scrutiny of Empowerment, Co-option and Domination: Local Economy: A Case Study; Rajarshi ‘Terrorism’ in Sri Lanka; Politics of Maharashtra’s Employment Mitra; Rabindra N Bhattacharya; Sugata Nira Wickramasinghe (C) 2285 Guarantee Scheme; Sujata Patel (F) 5126 Hazra and S C Santra (SA) 3612 Hour of the Assassins; Sumanta Banerjee Equity in Watershed Development: MANIPUR (P) 4329 A Case Study in Western Maharashtra; Manipur: Mockery of Law (Ed) 4392 Internationalisation of Sri Lanka’s Peace Priya Sangameswaran (SA) 2157 Overestimation of Fertility Rates Process and Governance: A Review of Equity, Access and Allocation Discrimination in Manipur; W Kumar Singh (SA) 1473 Strategic Conflict Assessments; in an Irrigation Project; S N Lele and MAOISM Cenan Pirani and Ahilan Kadirgamar R K Patil (F) 583 Democracy Contained; Saroj Giri (C) 1752 (SA) 1789 Farmers’ Suicides in Maharashtra; Maoist Movement; Shamsher Singh Narula Sri Lanka: A Ceasefire in Fragments Srijit Mishra (F) 1538 (LE) 4522 (Ed) 3449 Gender, Ageing and Social Security; Maoist Movement- I; Daya Varma (LE) 4302 Sri Lanka: Barbarism in War; Meena Gopal (SA) 4477 Maoist Movement- II; K N Ramachandran Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 3748 Guaranteed Employment and Gender (LE) 4302 Sri Lanka: Not Seeing the Writing; Construction: Women’s Mobilisation in Maoists in India; Gautam Navlakha (C) 2186 Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 4932 Maharashtra; Anurekha Chari (F) 5141 Maoists in India: A Rejoinder; Azad (D) 4379 MACHINERY, ELECTRICAL Intellectual Bankruptcy; Aniruddha Open Letters to Government and Fencing over Singur (Ed) 5203 G Kulkarni (LE) 3620 Maoists (C) 2977 MACROECONOMIC POLICY Is Bt Cotton Cultivation Economically Viable Social Transformation and Political Power: Indian Economic Reform: A Philosopher’s for Indian Farmers? An Empirical Analysis; Maoists in Nepal; Saroj Giri (SA) 2147 Stone; Deena Khatkhate (BR) 2203 A Narayanamoorthy and MARATHI Japanese Economic Recovery and the S S Kalamkar (SA) 2716 Intellectual Bankruptcy; Macroeconomic Policy Mix; Is Local Really Better? Comparing EGS Aniruddha G Kulkarni (LE) 3620 Sukanya Bose (SA) 3535 and Locally-Managed Rural Works A New Cultural Chauvinism; GPD (C) 775 Life Insurance and the Macroeconomy: Programmes in Nasik District; Vinda Karandikar: Deserving the Jnanpith; Indian Experience; H Sadhak (F) 1108 Sanjay Savale (F) 5133 Vidyadhar Date (C) 316

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MARXISM Tamil Nadu: ICDS with a Difference; Modernity and the Tamil Identity; Tribute: Harry Magdoff (1913-2006): ‘...There Anuradha Khati Rajivan (F) 3684 Kanakalatha Mukund (BR) 3589 Can Be a Better World’; Bernard D’Mello MIDDLE CLASS Notions of Modernity; Jaideep Chatterjee (C) 108 The Bomb, Biography and the Indian Middle (BR) 4583 MATHEMATICS Class; Sankaran Krishna (SA) 2327 MONETARY POLICY Mathematics and Tribal Children; Broadbasing of Indian Democracy; Basel II and Bank Lending Behaviour: Some Minati Panda (C) 117 C K Vishwanath (LE) 3440 Likely Implications for Monetary Policy; MEDIA AND POLITICS Centrifugal Tendencies; S Nanjundan Partha Ray; Saibal Ghosh and The Media: Politics, Ethics and the Law; (LE) 2950 D M Nachane (SA) 1053 A G Noorani (BR) 483 Interrogating Caste and Religion in India’s Indian Experience of Inflation: A Review of MEDICAL EDUCATION Emerging Middle Class; N J Demerath III; the Evolving Process; R K Pattnaik and Systems of Medicine: Issues and Responses Surinder S Jodhka and Loren R Demerath Amaresh Samantaraya (SA) 349 in Bombay Presidency; Mridula Ramanna (SA) 3813 Inflation Targeting: Much Ado about (SA) 3221 MIGRANT LABOUR Something; Deena Khatkhate (F) 5031 MEDICAL ETHICS Urban Migrant Labour: Shattered Lives, Japanese Economic Recovery and the National Bioethics Conference; Sandhya Neglected Laws (Ed) 4712 Macroeconomic Policy Mix; Srinivasan and Sanjay A Pai (C) 475 MIGRATION Sukanya Bose (SA) 3535 Supreme Court on Medical Negligence; Borders, Migration and Sub-Regional Monetary Policy and Bank Behaviour: Karunakaran Mathiharan (C) 111 Cooperation in Eastern South Asia; Empirical Evidence from India; MEDICAL RESEARCH Mayumi Murayama (SA) 1351 Saibal Ghosh (F) 853 Autonomy vs Ministerial Control in AIIMS: Gendering Oral History of Partition: Monetary Policy and Operations in A Tussle Born in 1950s; Interrogating Patriarchy; Countries with Surplus Liquidity; Shrish N Kavadi (C) 2967 Anjali Bhardwaj Datta (F) 2229 Mridul Saggar (SA) 1041 MEDICAL SCIENCES Identity across Boundaries; Neoclassical Finance and the Fully From Witchcraft to Allopathy: Uninterrupted Karen Leonard (BR) 1630 Convertible Rupee; Journey of Medical Science; The Last Journey: Exploring Social Class in Sivakumar Arumugam (SA) 4807 Daya R Varma (SA) 3605 the 1947 Partition Migration; Poland’s Experience with Convertibility; MEDIEVAL HISTORY Ravinder Kaur (F) 2221 Leon Podkaminer (F) 1864 Women and Empire; Saleem Kidwai Macroeconomic Determinants of Reinventing Fiscal Policy; (BR) 2547 Remittances: Evidence from India; Romar Correa (F) 2282 MEGHALAYA Poonam Gupta (SA) 2769 MONEY LAUNDERING Where Women Prevail: 2001 Census and Terrorism in the North-East: Linkages Money Laundering in Perspective; Female Heads of Households; and Implications; Archana Upadhyay Praful Bidwai (BR) 330 Ashish Bose (C) 2192 (SA) 4993 MONEY MARKET MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS MILK COOPERATIVES Buying Time (Ed) 1491 From 50 years Ago (January 21, 1956): Milkman of India; B S Baviskar (BR) 2455 Case for Government Direction on Nationalisation of Life Insurance (Ed) 173 MINING AND MINERALS Interest Rates; EPW Research Foundation MEXICO Death by Mining (Ed) 3911 (MMR) 3632 Financial Liberalisation in Semi- From 50 Years Ago (July 14, 1956): Mineral Money and Banking Composition and Industrialised Economies: The Mexican Policy and Export of Ores (Ed) 2953 Trend Growth; EPW Research Foundation Case; Julio Lopez and Guadalupe Mantey Sand Mining Groundwater Depletion in (CS) 1735 (F) 1870 Papagani Catchment; Money and Forex Market: Developments Monetary Policy and Operations in M Chandrasekhara Rao (F) 593 Impact of IMD Redemption; Clearing Countries with Surplus Liquidity; Steel Not Enough? Manshi Asher (C) 555 Corporation of India Limited (CS) 9 Mridul Saggar (SA) 1041 MINORITIES Money and Forex Markets: Improved Way Forward for Left in Latin America? Distorting the Reality of Aligarh Muslim Liquidity in Short-Term Market; Clearing Sujatha Fernandes (F) 3344 University; Iqbal Ansari (C) 101 Corporation of India Limited (CS) 1829 MICROFINANCE An Enigma Called Kanshi Ram; Money and Forex Markets: Mutual Funds An Architectural Plan for a Microfinance Anand Teltumbde (C) 4531 Dominate Short-Term Lending Market; Institutional Network; R Dasgupta (F) 1095 Madrasas Misunderstood; Arshad Alan Clearing Corporation of India Limited Financial Inclusion: Issues and Challenges; (LE) 370 (CS) 2281 S Mahendra Dev (F) 4310 Minority Rights and Human Rights; Money and Forex Markets: Persistence of Financial Status of Rural Poor: A Study in A G Noorani (C) 1741 Illiquidity; Clearing Corporation of India Udaipur District; M S Sriram and Prejudice in the Cause of Security (Ed) 3743 Limited (CS) 1409 Smita Parhi (SA) 5269 Representation of Minorities in Civil Money and Forex Markets: Persistent Microcredit Wins Nobel: A Stocktaking; Services; Syed Najiullah (C) 688 Liquidity Shortage; Clearing Corporation K Kalpana (C) 5110 MODERNISM of India Limited (CS) 850 Microfinance Institutions in Andhra Pradesh: Housewife, Sex Worker and Reformer: Money and Forex Markets: Volatile Crisis and Diagnosis; H S Shylendra Controversies over Women Writing Their Short-Term Rates; Clearing Corporation (C) 1959 Lives in Kerala; J Devika (SA) 1675 of India Limited (CS) 457 MID-DAY MEALS SCHEME How Modern Are We? Why Be Modern? Be Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Pressure Access to Nutritious Meal Programmes: Rational; Ranjit Sau (D) 1589 on Primary Dealers; Clearing Corporation Evidence from 1999-2000 NSS Data; How Modern Are We? Cultural of India Limited (CS) 3450 Brinda Viswanathan (SA) 497 Contradictions of India’s Modernity; Money, G Secs and Forex Markets: Mid-Day Meals in Primary Schools: Meera Nanda (SA) 491 Lukewarm Response to Electronic Achievements and Challenges; Madrasas Misunderstood; Arshad Alan Platform; Clearing Corporation of India Reetika Khera (P) 4742 (LE) 370 Limited (CS) 4309

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Money, G-Sec and Forex Markets: Wait and People’s Resilience; K N Raj (LE) 3130 Madrasas Misunderstood; Arshad Alan Watch Policy; Clearing Corporation of Political Context of Mumbai Bomb Blasts; (LE) 370 India Limited (CS) 2957 P A Sebastian (C) 3750 Muslim Personal Law: Rights for Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Buoyancy Priority in Infrastructure Projects; Shia Women (Ed) 4928 in Bond Market; Clearing Corporation of S Subramanyan (LE) 290 Muslims and Dalits as Subalterns; India Limited (CS) 5025 Sky Above, Mud Below: Slum Demolition Prachi Deshpande (BR) 3701 Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: and Urban Cleansing; C R Sridhar (C) 2529 Of Quotas and Traps; Zaheer Ali (C) 5304 Developments in October 2006; Clearing Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai; Prejudice in the Cause of Security (Ed) 3743 Corporation of India Limited (CS) 4637 Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (SA) 2140 Reinterpreting Madrasas; Arjumand Ara Movements in the Exchange Rate: Trends in Terror Revisits (Ed) 2951 (BR) 2544 New Indices of Nominal and Effective Travails of an Ordinary Citizen: A Tale Representation of Minorities in Civil Rates; EPW Research Foundation from Mumbai; Vidyadhar Date (C) 3473 Services; Syed Najiullah (C) 688 (MMR) 178 Urban Transport in Mumbai: Two Choices for Sachar committee: A Call for Inclusion Need to Rethink Fiscal Strategy; EPW the Future; Sudhir P Badami (C) 4724 (Ed) 5096 Research Foundation (MMR) 544 MUNICIPALITIES Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching Resilience of Liquidity in Indian Securities BMIC Road to Nowhere (Ed) 2509 History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Markets; Susan Thomas (F) 3452 Condoning Unplanned Development: Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 MOTION PICTURES Reviewing the Khanna Committee Report; The State and Its ‘Balancing Acts’; ‘Moving beyond Themselves’: Women in Ashok Kumar (C) 4105 Rama (LE) 2398 Hindustani Parsi Theatre and Early Hindi Delhi: Regulating a City (Ed) 4097 Under-representation of Disadvantaged Films; Mrinal Pande (SA) 1646 Municipal Elections in Uttar Pradesh; Classes in Colleges: What Do the Data Tell The Brahmin and the Citizen: Shankar’s A K Verma (C) 5218 Us? Rana Hasan and Aashish Mehta Anniyan; Rajan Krishnan and Representation and Development in (SA) 3791 M S S Pandian (SA) 3055 Urban Peripheries: Reflections on Understanding Islam; Abdul Salam (BR) 2307 Brown Is Black by This Code; GPD (C) 2514 Governance in Ahmedabad Suburbs; Unequal Compensation to Victims; Cinema School Days; Amrit Gangar (BR) 4673 Indrajit Roy (SA) 4363 Iqbal A Ansari (LE) 3994 Globalism and Indian Nationalism; The State and Its ‘Balancing Acts’; Uttar Pradesh: Formation of Muslim M K Raghavendra (C) 1503 Rama (LE) 2398 Political Fronts; A K Verma (C) 4241 Lage Raho Munna Bhai: Unravelling Brand Towards Economic Empowerment of Urban Why Is the Veil Such a Contentious Issue? ‘Gandhigiri’; Arunabha Ghosh and Local Bodies in Maharashtra; Abhay Pethe Imtiaz Ahmad (C) 5037 Tapan Babu (C) 5225 and Mala Lalvani (SA) 635 MUTUAL FUNDS Lage Raho Munnabhai: History as Farce; MUSIC INDUSTRY Governance of Mutual Funds and the S Ganesh (C) 4317 Musical Aesthetics: ‘Accompanist’ as ‘Star’ Institution of Trustee; G Sethu (F) 1413 Rajkumar and Kannada Nationalism; Performer; Lakshmi Subramanian (C) 1307 Money and Forex Markets Mutual Funds K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 1834 Musical Notions; Amanda Weidman Dominate Short-Term Lending Market; RANG DE BASANTI: Morality and the (BR) 3003 Clearing Corporation of India Limited Reservation Issue; The Reality of the Accompanist; (CS) 2281 Jasraman Singh Grewal (C) 4114 Aneesh Pradhan (D) 2166 Money, G-Sec and Forex Markets: Wait and Sen, Argumentative Indians and Rhythm and Rivalry; Amlan Dasgupta Watch Policy; Clearing Corporation of Bengali Modernity; Vinay Lal (C) 5222 (BR) 3861 India Limited (CS) 2957 Tamil Nadu More Stars than Ever; MUSLIM LEAGUE Money, G-Secs and Forex Markets: Rajan Krishnan (C) 2414 From 50 Years Ago (September 22, 1956): Developments in October 2006; Clearing MP Balancing the Two Wings (Ed) 3997 Corporation of India Limited (CS) 4637 Loaves of Office (Ed) 1731 Pakistan: Thinking about Regime Change: Salvaging an Endangered Institution; The Duck Loses Its Gait; Haris Gazdar How Promising Is BIMSTEC? Sumanta Banerjee (C) 3837 (F) 3455 Nilanjan Banik (SA) 5264 MRTP ACT MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW NAGALAND Amending India’s Competition Act; Muslim Personal Law: Rights for Forced Optimism (Ed) 2275 Aditya Bhattacharjea (C) 4314 Shia Women (Ed) 4928 Rethinking India’s Counter-insurgency MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS MUSLIMS Campaign in North-East; Sanjay Barbora Arcelor Mittal Emergence of a Giant Ambivalence of Social Consciousness: (SA) 3805 (Ed) 2692 Inter-Community Relations in Modern NARCOTICS New (TNC) Kids on the Block (Ed) 4391 India; Sudhir Chandra (P) 397 Hooked on Drugs; Itty Abraham (F) 3639 MUMBAI Collating Information, or ‘Communalising’ NARMADA PROJECT Disconnecting Experience: Making the Army? Gautam Navlakha (C) 687 Dams and Displacement Alternative World-class Roads in Mumbai; Counting Religion (Ed) 535 Restructuring of the Sardar Sarovar: Nikhil Anand (SA) 3422 Distorting the Reality of Aligarh Muslim Breaking the Deadlock; Suhas Paranjape Mumbai Bomb Blasts – I: Denial of University; Iqbal Ansari (C) 101 and K J Joy (F) 601 Constitutional Rights; Jyoti Punwani Experiencing Islam, British Style; Kurt Death Knell in the Narmada Valley; Betwa (C) 3841 Jacobsen and Sayeed Hasan Khan (C) 395 Sharma (C) 5224 Mumbai Bomb Blasts – I: When ‘Terror’ Talk Faith and the Musician: Ustads in Modern Narmada and the Myth of Rehabilitation; Crushes Human Rights; A Correspondent India; Lakshmi Subramanian (C) 4648 Mike Levien (F) 3581 (C) 3843 Indian Muslims Past, Present and Future; Trampled on Forever (Ed) 1299 Mumbai Crimes: Justice Denied (Ed) 3996 J S Bandukwala (P) 1341 NATIONAL ACCOUNTS Mumbai Floods: A Year Later (Ed) 3264 Inside Gujarat’s Relief Colonies: Surviving Cross-Validation of Production and Mumbai Land: Housing Anarchy (Ed) 4836 State Hostility and Denial; Harsh Mander Consumption Data of Fruits and Myopic Development (Ed) 1147 (F) 5235 Vegetables; Jatinder S Bedi (SA) 5345

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Higher Investment by Statistical Revision Haunting Memories: Is There More to the Trail Blazed by Naxalbari Uprising; (Ed) 451 History of Vande Mataram than Ananda Dipankar Bhattacharya (D) 5191 Revision of National Accounts Statistics a Math? Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan (D) 4621 Underdevelopment and Naxal Movement; Welcome Step, Good in Parts; Nationalism and Social Reform; Rajat Kumar Kujur (C) 557 S L Shetty (SA) 2317 Neeraj Hatekar (BR) 485 Wages of Counter-Insurgency (Ed) 935 NATIONAL INCOME Nationalism, Genuine and Spurious: NDA GOVERNMENT Budget Making a lâ Chidambaram; Mourning Two Early Post-Nationalist Audit Reports on Disinvestment; EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1378 Strains; Ashis Nandy (P) 3500 B P Mathur (F) 5114 A Causal Investigation of Aggregate Nature of Peasant Nationalism; Defining, Constructing and Policing a Output Fluctuations in India; Anand Chakravarti (RA) 3302 ‘New India’: Relationship between G Sasidaran (F) 4081 Rajkumar and Kannada Nationalism; Neoliberalism and Hindutva; Development Concerns: China and India; K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 1834 Shankar Gopalakrishnan (SA) 2803 Anjani K Kochak (C) 3565 Revisiting Nationalism; Niraja Gopal Jayal Draft National Tribal Policy of 2006: Domestic Terms of Trade in a Three-Sector (D) 4513 Creating Consternation; B K Roy Burman Framework: Analysis for All-India and Two Nations and a Dead Body: Mortuarial (C) 3645 States; Surajit Deb (SA) 1713 Rites and Post-Colonial Modes of More Questions than Answers; Ecological Embeddedness of the Economy: A Nation-Making in South Asia; Sajal Nag Madhav Godbole (BR) 4667 Socioecological Perspective on Humanity’s (SA) 5183 NDA and UPA Budgets: Continuity or Economic Activities 1700-2000; Helmut ‘Vande Mataram’; Aniruddha G Kulkarni Change? Mala Lalvani (C) 1318 Haberl; Fridolin Krausmann and (LE) 4296 Upswing of Congress Party? (Ed) 3627 Simone Gingrich (SA) 4896 Vande Mataram: Whose Legacy? (Ed) 3828 NEPAL Estimates of Gross Domestic Product, Saving NATIONALITY The ‘Ides’ of April: Lessons from Nepal; and Capital Formation (New Series Base Overseas Indian Citizen A New Sumanta Banerjee (C) 1831 Year 1999-2000); EPW Research ‘Setubandhan’? Anupama Roy (C) 1421 Democracy Contained; Saroj Giri (C) 1752 Foundation (CS) 455 NATURAL GAS Emerging Political Equations in Nepal; From 50 Years Ago (May 26, 1956): Oil and Politics in Russia: Tightening Grip Muchkund Dubey (C) 4414 National Income in 1954-55 (Ed) 2045 on Pipelines; R G Gidadhubli (C) 3358 First Step to a Republic (Ed) 1599 Higher Investment by Statistical Revision Who Changed Delhi’s Air? Urvashi Narain Fulfilling the Promise in Nepal; (Ed) 451 and Ruth Greenspan Bell (SA) 1584 Kirsty Hughes (C) 1830 India’s Quarterly GDP Estimates; NAXALISM How Promising Is BIMSTEC? EPW Research Foundation (CS) 7 The Adivasi, the State and the Naxalite: Case Nilanjan Banik (SA) 5264 India’s Quarterly GDP Estimates From of Andhra Pradesh; E A S Sarma (F) 1434 Learning from Experience and Analysis: 1999-2000 to 2005-06 (1999-2000 Series); Bastar, Maoism and Salwa Judum; Contrasting Approaches of Maoists in EPW Research Foundation (CS) 4231 Nandini Sundar (F) 3187 Nepal and India; Sitaram Yechury (F) 3168 India’s Quarterly GDP Estimates from Beyond Naxalbari; Sumanta Banerjee Making of a ‘New Nepal’; Rita Manchanda 1999-2000 to 2005-06 (1999-2000 Series); (F) 3159 (C) 5034 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 5023 Challenges of Revolutionary Violence: Maoist Movement; Shamsher Singh Narula The Indian Monsoon, GDP and Agriculture; The Naxalite Movement in Perspective; (LE) 4522 Sulochana Gadgil and Siddhartha Gadgil Manoranjan Mohanty (F) 3163 Nepal Historic Deal (Ed) 2692 (SA) 4887 Chhattisgarh Physiognomy of Violence; Nepal Hope Again (Ed) 1225 Revision of National Accounts Statistics: K Balagopal (C) 2183 Nepal: A People in Transition; Gautam A Welcome Step, Good in Parts; Chhattisgarh Repression Garbed as Security Navlakha and Anand Swaroop Verma S L Shetty (SA) 2317 (Ed) 2044 (C) 3470 Twelfth Finance Commission and Learning from Experience and Analysis: On the ‘Comprehensive Peace Agreement’ Backward States; G R Reddy (SA) 3513 Contrasting Approaches of Maoists in in Nepal; Azad (LE) 5094 What Is Wrong with Sound Finance; Nepal and India; Sitaram Yechury (F) 3168 Predicament of Political Change; Prabhat Patnaik (F) 4560 Maoism in India: Ideology, Programme and Jayadeva Uyangoda (C) 1496 NATIONAL PARKS Armed Struggle; Tilak D Gupta (F) 3172 Roots and the Route of Secularism Contending Water Uses: Biodiversity vs Maoist Attack; Ramachandra Guha; in Sikkim; Vibha Arora (SA) 4063 Irrigation: Case of Keoladeo National Park; Harivansh; Farah Naqvi; E A S Sarma; A Significant Turn (Ed) 4711 Malavika Chauhan (F) 575 Nandini Sundar and B G Verghese (LE) 3130 Social Transformation and Political Power: Water Quality Pollution through Aqua Culture: Maoist Movement in Andhra Pradesh; Maoists in Nepal; Saroj Giri (SA) 2147 Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary; J Rama Rao; K Balagopal (F) 3183 State Responses to Displacement; Jasveen Jairath and P Umesh (F) 585 Maoists in India; Gautam Navlakha (C) 2186 Jayant Sriram (BR) 39 NATIONAL SECURITY Maoists in India: A Rejoinder; Azad (D) 4379 Trail Blazed by Naxalbari Uprising; From 50 Years Ago ( Mar 31, 1956): On Armed Resistance; Bela Bhatia (F) 3179 Dipankar Bhattacharya (D) 5191 Defence Problems (Ed) 1225 Open Letters to Government and Maoists NEW ZEALAND NATIONALISM (C) 2977 Fringe Benefits Tax: Lessons from Australia Birth of a Goddess: Vande Mataram, Reflections on Naxalism in Chhattisgarh; and New Zealand; Rajalaxmi Kamath Anandamath, and Hindu Nationhood; K S Subramanian (C) 310 (C) 115 Tanika Sarkar (SA) 3959 The Spring and Its Thunder; Sagar (F) 3176 Inflation Targeting: International Experience A Critique of Secular Nationalism; Through the Eyes of the Police: Naxalites in and Prospects for India; Kanhaiya Singh M S S Pandian (BR) 5240 Calcutta in the 1970s; Ashoke Kumar (F) 2958 Fashioning Development; Tirthankar Roy Mukhopadhyay (SA) 3227 NGOS (BR) 1247 Towards the ‘New Man’: Revolutionary Decentralised Childcare Services: Globalism and Indian Nationalism; Youth and Rural Agency in the Naxalite The SEWA Experience; Mirai Chatterjee M K Raghavendra (C) 1503 Movement; Rajeshwari Dasgupta (SA) 1920 (F) 3660

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Micro-Level Disputes Traditional Water Employment Position in India as Per NSS 61st NUCLEAR POLICY Harvesting Structure: Community behind Round Survey (2004-05); EPW Research America, Iran and the Nuclear Option; ‘Community’; Prakash Kashwan (F) 596 Foundation (CS) 4839 Zia Mian (C) 1738 Neoliberalism in Egypt’s Informal Economy; Higher Investment by Statistical Revision Bush Visit Illusion of a Bargain (Ed) 844 Sarasij Majumder (BR) 3863 (Ed) 451 Indo-US Nuclear Accord Implications for On Funding and the NGO Sector; Indebtedness of Cultivator Households: Some Peace and Security in South Asia; Nilanjana Biswas (C) 4406 Puzzling Results; K G K Subba Rao (C) 3460 T Jayaraman (C) 1167 Public, Private and Voluntary Agencies in On Backwardness and Fair Access to Higher Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Twists and Turns Solid Waste Management: A Study in Education: Results from NSS 55th Round (Ed) 2952 Chennai City; Krithika Srinivasan Surveys, 1999-2000; K Sundaram (SA) 5173 Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Unprincipled (SA) 2259 Patterns of Female Employment in Urban Positions (Ed) 536 NICARAGUA India: Analysis of NSS Data (1983 to Iran Affair US Machinations (Ed) 452 Latin America: A ‘Red Tide’? (Ed) 5096 1999-2000); Sona Mitra (SA) 5000 Iran, US and the Drumbeats of War; NOBEL PRIZE Political Economy of Statistics; Sukumar Muralidharan (C) 1619 Microcredit Wins Nobel: A Stocktaking; Vidya Pitre (C) 5309 Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge; K Kalpana (C) 5110 Rural Wages during the 1990s: Ramesh Thakur (P) 3297 NON-ALIGNMENT A Re-estimation; Ravi Srivastava and Journey from Pokhran-II to Hyde Act; Non-Aligned Movement: Richa Singh (SA) 4053 T Jayaraman (C) 5216 A Southern People’s Front? (Ed) 3996 State of India’s Farmers; A Narayanamoorthy North Korea Test as Spur to Nuclear NON-PERFORMING ASSETS (C) 471 Disarmament; Ramesh Thakur (C) 4403 Mythology of Banking Ownership; Trends in Agricultural Wages in India: Nuclear Deal and Energy Security; K B L Mathur (C) 5039 1964-65 to 1999-2000; Pallavi Chavan Ardhendu Sen (LE) 1490 NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY and Rajshree Bedamatta (SA) 4041 Nuclear Deal: US Designs, India’s Choices North Korea Test as Spur to Nuclear NUCLEAR ARMS (Ed) 5204 Disarmament; Ramesh Thakur (C) 4403 America, Iran and the Nuclear Option; Nuclear North Korea (Ed) 4303 NORTH-EAST INDIA Zia Mian (C) 1738 Price of the Nuclear Deal; T Jayaraman Anthropology Curriculum and Its Controlling the Bomb; Zia Mian (C) 464 (C) 1418 Discontents; M Suresh and Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Unprincipled South Asia Needs a Bomb-Less Deal; K T Rammohan (BR) 128 Positions (Ed) 536 Pervez Hoodbhoy (C) 1410 Demystifying the Myth of Shifting The Iran Issue; Achin Vanaik (C) 467 A Strategic Partnership between India Cultivation: Agronomy in the North-East; Iran, US and the Drumbeats of War; and Japan? Vivek Pinto (C) 5299 Debojyoti Das (SA) 4912 Sukumar Muralidharan (C) 1619 Whither Nuclear Power? Anshu Bharadwaj; Forced Optimism (Ed) 2275 Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge; Rahul Tongia and V S Arunachalam Governance as Theatre; Hiren Gohain Ramesh Thakur (P) 3297 (SA) 1203 (C) 4109 Journey from Pokhran-II to Hyde Act; OECD Internally Displaced Persons in India’s T Jayaraman (C) 5216 Issues on in Environmental Goods and North-East; Monirul Hussain (C) 391 North Korea Test as Spur to Nuclear Services; Archana S Mathur and North-East Pastiche; Mitra Phukan (BR) 4753 Disarmament; Ramesh Thakur (C) 4403 Pradeep Kr Guin (SA) 4675 Rethinking India’s Counter-insurgency Nuclear North Korea (Ed) 4303 OIL Campaign in North-East; Sanjay Barbora Shrinking Horizon of an Expanding Corporate Greed and People’s Livelihood; (SA) 3805 Economy: India’s Military Spending; Hiren Gohain (LE) 4926 Terrorism in the North-East: Linkages Gautam Navlakha (C) 1338 From 50 Years Ago (November 24, 1956: and Implications; Archana Upadhyay NUCLEAR ENERGY Delving into Oil Economics (Ed) 4837 (SA) 4993 America, Iran and the Nuclear Option; Japan and India Making Up for the Lost NSS Zia Mian (C) 1738 Decade; Vivek Pinto (C) 2518 Access to Nutritious Meal Programmes: Fallout from Nuclear Deal; R Rajaraman Loose Ends of Oil Pricing; E A S Sarma Evidence from 1999-2000 NSS Data; (C) 3351 (P) 2997 Brinda Viswanathan (SA) 497 High Costs, Questionable Benefits of Oil and Politics in Russia: Tightening Are the Results of the Economic Census Reprocessing; J Y Suchitra and Grip on Pipelines; R G Gidadhubli (C) 3358 Robust? Jeemol Unni and G Raveendran M V Ramana (C) 4848 Petroleum Pricing Tinkering for Short-term (C) 3558 Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Twists and Turns Gain (Ed) 2400 Cross-Validation of Production and (Ed) 2952 OIL COMPANIES Consumption Data of Fruits and Nuclear Deal and Energy Security; Corporate Greed and People’s Livelihood; Vegetables; Jatinder S Bedi (SA) 5345 Ardhendu Sen (LE) 1490 Hiren Gohain (LE) 4926 Disability Estimates in India: What the Nuclear Deal: US Designs, India’s Choices ORISSA Census and NSS Tell Us; Sophie Mitra and (Ed) 5204 Endemic to Development: Police Killings in Usha Sambamoorthi (F) 4022 Price of the Nuclear Deal; T Jayaraman Kalinga Nagar; Ranjana Padhi and Disability Index: A Measure of Deprivation (C) 1418 Nagraj Adve (C) 186 among Disabled; A K Mishra and South Asia Needs a Bomb-Less Deal; Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Discovery from Ruchika Gupta (F) 4026 Pervez Hoodbhoy (C) 1410 Below: Decolonisation and the Search Employment and Poverty in India During the A Strategic Partnership between India and for Linguistic Authenticity; 1990s: Is there a Diverging Trend? Sanjay K Japan? Vivek Pinto (C) 5299 Gagnendra Nath Dash (F) 4801 Hansda and Partha Ray (SA) 3014 Twenty Years after Chernobyl: Debates and Governance of Power Sector: Orissa’s Employment of Persons with Disabilities: Lessons; M V Ramana (C) 1743 Experiments with Village Electricity Evidence from the National Sample Whither Nuclear Power? Anshu Bharadwaj; Committees; Chandra Dash (C) 195 Survey; Sophie Mitra and Rahul Tongia and V S Arunachalam Introduction; Satya P Mohanty and Usha Sambamoorthi (P) 199 (SA) 1203 Harish Trivedi (F) 4780

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Mangrove Conservation Efforts and the Pakistan Administered Kashmir Complex PARLIAMENT Local Economy: A Case Study; Socio-Political Set-up; Luv Puri (C) 780 Attack on Parliament: Last Chance to Rajarshi Mitra; Rabindra N Bhattacharya; Pakistan’s Absent Democracy; Know What Really Happened; Sugata Hazra and S C Santra (SA) 3612 S M Naseem (D) 756 Nirmalangshu Mukherji (C) 4236 Orissa Draft Resettlement and Rehabilitation Pakistan: Civil and Uncivil Society; The Constitution and Journalists’ Sources; Policy, 2006; Manipadma Jena (C) 384 S Akbar Zaidi (F) 3556 A G Noorani (CL) 2964 Orissa Ongoing Brutality (Ed) 84 Pakistan: General in His Labyrinth; From 50 Years Ago (September 8, 1956): An Oriya Village and the Battle of Plassey: Arif Azad (C) 3941 Cabinet Reshuffle (Ed) 3829 Senapati’s Allegory of the Raj; Pakistan: Reforming the Hudood (Ed) 4836 Incumbency and Parliamentary Elections in Paul L Sawyer (F) 4782 Pakistan: Thinking about Regime Change: India: An Analysis of the Congress Party’s People’s Movement at Kalinga Nagar: The Duck Loses Its Gait; Haris Gazdar Electoral Performance, 1962-1999; An Epitaph or an Epitome? (F) 3455 Vani Kant Borooah (SA) 739 Banikanta Mishra (C) 551 Price of the Nuclear Deal; T Jayaraman Loaves of Office (Ed) 1731 Representation of Women and Gender (C) 1418 Media Covering Parliament; Relations in Six Acres and a Third; South Asia Needs a Bomb-Less Deal; Vinod Chowdhury (LE) 4920 Claire Horan (F) 4789 Pervez Hoodbhoy (C) 1410 Office of Profit Opportunism Exposed Satire, Literary Realism and the Indian State: State Responses to Displacement; (Ed) 2276 Six Acres and a Third and Raag Darbari; Jayant Sriram (BR) 39 Official Truth as Judicial Truth, via the Ulka Anjaria (F) 4795 Transboundary Disputes Two Neighbours Media; Subhendu Dasgupta (BR) 3206 Steel Not Enough? Manshi Asher (C) 555 and a Treaty: Baglihar Project in Hot Salvaging an Endangered Institution; A Subaltern’s Tale; Anu Kumar (BR) 4123 Waters; Rajesh Sinha (F) 606 Sumanta Banerjee (C) 3837 Underdevelopment and Naxal Movement; Two Nations and a Dead Body: Mortuarial PARSIS Rajat Kumar Kujur (C) 557 Rites and Post-Colonial Modes of ‘Moving beyond Themselves’: Women in Underdevelopment by Design? Undermining Nation-Making in South Asia; Hindustani Parsi Theatre and Vital Infrastructure in Orissa; Keshab Das Sajal Nag (SA) 5183 Early Hindi Films; Mrinal Pande (SA) 1646 (SA) 642 Waiting for Enlightenment; PARTITION OUTSOURCING Pervez Hoodbhoy (F) 3136 From 50 Years Ago (April 21, 1956): Outsourcing Identities: Call Centres and Why Blame the Military? S Akbar Zaidi Inter-related Issues (Ed) 1493 Cultural Transformation in India; Divya C (F) 4642 Gendering Oral History of Partition: McMillin (SA) 235 PALESTINE Interrogating Patriarchy; Anjali Bhardwaj Outsourcing the American Dream? ‘Final Borders’ and ‘Security Zones’ in Datta (F) 2229 Representing the Stakes of IT Palestine: Israeli Plans for a Bantustan The Historiographical Operation: Globalisation; Mobina Hashmi (SA) 242 ‘State’; Gabriela Becker (C) 1237 Memory and History; Ranabir Samaddar OVERSEAS INDIANS Listening for Echoes: Partition in Three (F) 2236 Macroeconomic Determinants of Contexts; Eyal Ben-Ari and Smita Tewari The Last Journey: Exploring Social Class in Remittances: Evidence from India; Jassal (F) 2213 the 1947 Partition Migration; Poonam Gupta (SA) 2769 Nature of the Zionist Beast: Lebanon, Ravinder Kaur (F) 2221 Overseas Indian Citizen A New Palestine and Israel’s Scorched Earth Listening for Echoes: Partition in ‘Setubandhan’? Anupama Roy (C) 1421 Policy; Gabriela Becker (C) 3653 Three Contexts; Eyal Ben-Ari and Overseas Indians Citizenship and Palestine: ‘Homecoming’ of Hamas; Smita Tewari Jassal (F) 2213 Other Rights (Ed) 172 S S Tabraz (C) 566 Manto’s Open It: Engendering Partition PAKISTAN West Asia Challenge of Hamas (Ed) 372 Narratives; Shreey Chand (C) 308 ‘Counter-insurgencies’ in Pakistan; West Asia: News of a Kidnapping (Ed) 2952 RSS in Sindh: 1942-48; Rita Kothari Haris Gazdar (C) 1952 PANCHAYATS (SA) 3007 Bugti and the Baloch Cause; Haris Gazdar Broadening the Scope of Watershed The Untold Betrayal of Sindhi Hindus; (F) 4100 Development; Deepa Joshi (F) 2987 Anand Chandavarkar (D) 4918 Collective Care Arrangements in the Community Panchayats in Fish Marketing; PATENTS Informal Labour Market: Road Transport K Karunaharan and C Thangamuthu ‘Holy Grail’ of Giant Pharma; C R Sridhar Workers in Pakistan; Zeenat Hisam (C) 4860 (C) 952 (SA) 2099 Decentralisation and Democracy; Data Exclusivity in Pharmaceuticals: Deference to the Mullahs, Iron Fist for the Yamini Aiyar (BR) 4873 Little Basis, False Claims; Biswajit Dhar Rest: Pakistan under Musharraf; Democratic Management of Common and K M Gopakumar (SA) 5073 Pervez Hoodbhoy (F) 4232 Property in Goa: From ‘Gaonkarias’ and Drug Firms vs Public Health (Ed) 5291 Distributional Inequities and Resource Use ‘Communidades’ to Gram Sabhas; No Pills for Poor People? Understanding Behaviour: Political Economy of Sharon D’Cruz and Avinash V Raikar the Disembowelment of India’s Patent ‘Ecological Divide’ in Pakistan; (SA) 439 Regime; Dwijen Rangnekar (SA) 409 Tarique Niazi (SA) 4273 Issues in Restructuring; Amita Shah; Para 6 of WTO Doha Declaration: Does the Budget Matter in Pakistan? Sharachchandra Lele; Shrinivas Badiger; Non-Solution of TRIPS Problem; S Akbar Zaidi (C) 2512 K J Joy and Subhash Paranjape (F) 2994 C Niranjan Rao (C) 301 Globalisation and Higher Education in Need to Flesh Out Proposals; Patents and Pharmaceuticals in India; Pakistan; Nadeem Omar Tarar (SA) 5080 Ashesh Ambasta (F) 2991 C Niranjan Rao (BR) 1975 Is Pakistan Shining? S Akbar Zaidi (C) 1611 Restructuring Watershed Development PEASANTS Making of a Disaster; Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Programmes; A Vaidyanathan (F) 2984 The ‘Other’ Tragedy (Ed) 5019 (C) 479 Tapping Local Resources to Increase Agrarian Crisis Looking beyond the Debt Monetary Policy and Operations in Panchayat Incomes; Subroto Dhar Trap; S Galab and V Ratna Reddy (C) 1838 Countries with Surplus Liquidity; (SA) 1371 Analysis of Farmer Suicides in Kerala; Mridul Saggar (SA) 1041 Towards Reforms; Mihir Shah (F) 2981 S Mohanakumar and R K Sharma (F) 1553

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Contract Farming through Agribusiness A Visit to Two ‘Flaming Fields’ of Bihar; Firms and State Corporation: D Bandyopadhyay (C) 5302 The Philippines Killing Fields of Asia; Robin A Case Study in Punjab; Pramod Kumar Why Do Farmers Commit Suicide? Eastman-Abaya and James Petras (C) 1627 (SA) 5367 The Case of Andhra Pradesh; V Sridhar PHILOSOPHY Credit, Indebtedness and Farmer Suicides (F) 1559 Science and Indian Philosophy; in Punjab: Some Missing Links; PENSION S Duraiswami (BR) 2199 Sukhpal Singh (D) 3330 Pension Issue and Challenges Facing India; PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED Crop Insurance in India: Scope for Mukul G Asher (F) 4638 Disability Estimates in India: What the Improvement; V S Vyas and Surjit Singh PEPPER Census and NSS Tell Us; Sophie Mitra (SA) 4585 Analysis of Farmer Suicides in Kerala; and Usha Sambamoorthi (F) 4022 Dimensions of Agrarian Distress in S Mohanakumar and R K Sharma (F) 1553 Disability Index: A Measure of Deprivation Andhra Pradesh; P Narasimha Rao and PER CAPITA INCOME among Disabled; A K Mishra and K C Suri (F) 1546 Development Concerns: China and India; Ruchika Gupta (F) 4026 Distributional Inequities and Resource Use Anjani K Kochak (C) 3565 Employment of Persons with Disabilities: Behaviour: Political Economy of PERFORMANCE BUDGETING Evidence from the National Sample Survey; ‘Ecological Divide’ in Pakistan; Outcome Budgeting: Moving beyond Sophie Mitra and Usha Sambamoorthi Tarique Niazi (SA) 4273 Rhetoric? Harnita Chowdhary (C) 2515 (P) 199 Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public PERKS AND BONUS PHYSICIANS Policy: Evidence, Diagnosis and Executive Compensation, Firm Performance Supreme Court on Medical Negligence; Alternatives from Punjab; Anita Gill and and Governance: An Empirical Analysis; Karunakaran Mathiharan (C) 111 Lakhwinder Singh (SA) 2762 Aditya Parthasarathy; Krishnakumar PLANNING COMMISSION Farmers’ Suicides and the Agrarian Crisis; Menon and Debashish Bhattacherjee Approach Paper to the Eleventh Five-Year A Vaidyanathan (C) 4009 (SA) 4139 Plan: A Sceptical Note; D M Nachane Farmers’ Suicides in Maharashtra; PESTICIDES (C) 3141 Srijit Mishra (F) 1538 Bt Cotton in India: Sustainable Pest Budgetary Rules and Plan Financing: Fencing over Singur (Ed) 5203 Management? Kavitha Kuruganti and Revisiting the Fiscal Responsibility Act; Financial Inclusion: Issues and Challenges; G V Ramanjaneyulu (C) 561 Mihir Rakshit (F) 4547 S Mahendra Dev (F) 4310 Food Regulation: Missing Standards A Critique of the Approach Paper to Eleventh Government, Industry and Farmland; (Ed) 3552 Plan; Amiya Kumar Bagchi; Debdas Satya Sivaraman; Ravindra Garia; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Banerjee and Achin Chakraborty (C) 3346 Kapil Sharma; Radhika Menon and ‘Holy Grail’ of Giant Pharma; Education: More of the Same (Ed) 3340 Azim Sherwani (LE) 3446 C R Sridhar (C) 952 FRBM Act and Eleventh Plan Approach Indebtedness of Cultivator Households: Corporate Irresponsibility in Drug Pricing Paper; D K Srivastava (F) 4553 Some Puzzling Results; K G K Subba Rao (Ed) 4927 From 50 Years Ago (April 28, 1956): (C) 3460 Data Exclusivity in Pharmaceuticals: Who Fathers the Plan? (Ed) 1601 Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and Little Basis, False Claims; Biswajit Dhar From 50 Years Ago (June 23, 1956): Suicides in Punjab; P Satish (SA) 2754 and K M Gopakumar (SA) 5073 The Travail of Planning (Ed) 2693 Is Bt Cotton Cultivation Economically Drug Firms vs Public Health (Ed) 5291 Ideals vs Realities: Limitations of Viable for Indian Farmers? An Empirical Drug Prices and Drug Pushers; Governance; Samit Kar (C) 4322 Analysis; A Narayanamoorthy and J B D’Souza (C) 2060 Need to Rethink Fiscal Strategy; S S Kalamkar (SA) 2716 Medicines: Why Is Paswan’s Price Reduction EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 544 Land Question in Assam: A Short Note; a Let-down? S Srinivasan and Anurag Reconciling the Irreconcilable; Hiren Gohain (C) 3459 Bhargava (C) 5101 Percy S Mistry (C) 4244 Land Struggle in Singur; Arup Kumar Sen Para 6 of WTO Doha Declaration: A Rejoinder to a Sceptical Note; (LE) 3994 Non-solution of TRIPS Problem; C S Deshpande (LE) 3910 Lease Farming in Kerala: Findings from C Niranjan Rao (C) 301 Where Is Gender in Eleventh Plan Approach Micro Level Studies; K N Nair and Patents and Pharmaceuticals in India; Paper? Indira Hirway (C) 3464 Vineetha Menon (SA) 2732 C Niranjan Rao (BR) 1975 PLASTIC INDUSTRY Liberalising the Lease Market; PHARMACEUTICALS Deprived Castes and Privileged Politics: An H R Sharma (C) 696 Corporate Irresponsibility in Drug Pricing Urban Informal Market in Contemporary Peasant Hares and Capitalist Hounds of (Ed) 4927 India; Kaveri Gill (SA) 133 Singur; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5296 Data Exclusivity in Pharmaceuticals: POLAND Political Economy of Agrarian Distress; Little Basis, False Claims; Biswajit Dhar Poland’s Experience with Convertibility; K C Suri (F) 1523 and K M Gopakumar (SA) 5073 Leon Podkaminer (F) 1864 Political Economy of the Electricity Subsidy: Drug Firms vs Public Health (Ed) 5291 POLICE Evidence from Punjab; Varinder Jain From Witchcraft to Allopathy: Uninterrupted Police and the Constitution; (SA) 4072 Journey of Medical Science; Daya R Varma A G Noorani (C) 1163 A Rejoinder to ‘Rent-a-Womb Economics’; (SA) 3605 Police Reforms Pandora’s Box No One Wants Suhas Chattopadhyay (D) 526 Medicines: Why Is Paswan’s Price Reduction to Open; Madhav Godbole (P) 1179 Relief Package for Farmers: Can It Stop a Let-down? S Srinivasan and Reforms for Indian Police; K S Subramanian Suicides? A Narayanamoorthy (C) 3353 Anurag Bhargava (C) 5101 (BR) 1185 State of India’s Farmers; A Narayanamoorthy No Pills for Poor People? Understanding the Rights, Reforms and Justice: An Essential (C) 471 Disembowelment of India’s Patent Regime; Handbook; K S Subramanian (BR) 621 Suicide Mortality Rates across States of Dwijen Rangnekar (SA) 409 POLICE ATROCITIES India, 1975-2001: A Statistical Note; Para 6 of WTO Doha Declaration: Endemic to Development: Police Killings in Srijit Mishra (F) 1566 Non-Solution of TRIPS Problem; Kalinga Nagar; Ranjana Padhi and Nagraj Violence in Singur; A Reader (LE) 5088 C Niranjan Rao (C) 301 Adve (C) 186

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Government, Industry and Farmland; Kashmir: Sidelining the Separatists; Conflict and Development in Sri Lanka; Satya Sivaraman; Ravindra Garia; Kapil Balraj Puri (C) 4017 Peter Schalk (BR) 4438 Sharma; Radhika Menon and KERALA A Left Turn; K G Kumar (C) 2051 Conspiracy Theories in Bangladesh; Azim Sherwani (LE) 3446 Kerala Elections and After; K Haridas (C) 2053 Zafar Sobhan (F) 3275 POLIO Kerala Intra-Party Differences; Deference to the Mullahs, Iron Fist for the Polio Eradication Programme: A Failure; K Haridas (C) 1234 Rest: Pakistan under Musharraf; Yash Paul (C) 4538 Last Man Standing; Zafar Sobhan (F) 5026 Pervez Hoodbhoy (F) 4232 Polio Eradication: A National Commission Letters (10 June 2006); Prabhat Kumar Democracy Contained; Saroj Giri (C) 1752 Required; T Jacob John (P) 5229 (LE) 2274 Deprived Castes and Privileged Politics: An POLITICAL ECONOMY Memories, Saffronising Statues and Urban Informal Market in Contemporary Political Economy of Statistics; Constructing Communal Politics; India; Kaveri Gill (SA) 133 Vidya Pitre (C) 5309 Badri Narayan (SA) 4695 Electoral Politics in Post-Conflict Societies: Political Economy of West Bengal: Narayan, Thou Hast Done the Case of Punjab; Praveen Priyadarshi and A Puzzle and a Hypothesis; Extraordinary!; GPD (F) 5215 Neera Chandhoke (SA) 811 Abhirup Sarkar (SA) 341 Office of Profit Opportunism Exposed Emerging Political Equations in Nepal; Politics of Economic Growth in India, (Ed) 2276 Muchkund Dubey (C) 4414 1980-2005: Part I – The 1980s; Atul Kohli Petroleum Pricing Tinkering for First Step to a Republic (Ed) 1599 (SA) 1251 Short-term Gain (Ed) 2400 Forced Optimism (Ed) 2275 Politics of Economic Growth in India, Tamil Nadu Lessons for the Future (Ed) 1936 Fulfilling the Promise in Nepal; 1980-2005: Part II – The 1990s and Beyond; Tamil Nadu More Stars than Ever; Kirsty Hughes (C) 1830 Atul Kohli (SA) 1361 Rajan Krishnan (C) 2414 Gandhi The Colonising Object; Redefining the Discourse on Fiscal Tamil Nadu New Times Ahead; Vithal Rajan (C) 1425 Federalism; Sudipto Mundle (BR) 960 M S S Pandian (C) 2181 Governance as Theatre; Hiren Gohain POLITICAL MOVEMENTS Television in Tamil Nadu Politics; (C) 4109 Assam Identity as Strategy (Ed) 1492 Maya Ranganathan (C) 4947 Incumbency and Parliamentary Elections in Madhya Pradesh Socio-economic Base of Upswing of Congress Party? (Ed) 3627 India: An Analysis of the Congress Party’s Political Dynamics; Rahul Banerjee (D) 78 Uttar Pradesh: Formation of Muslim Political Electoral Performance, 1962-1999; POLITICAL PARTIES Fronts; A K Verma (C) 4241 Vani Kant Borooah (SA) 739 Adrift at 25 (Ed) 3 POLITICAL PERSONALITIES Interrogating the ‘Region’; Assam ‘Talking about Talks’; M S Prabhakara Bugti and the Baloch Cause; Haris Gazdar Sanghamitra Misra (BR) 2542 (C) 777 (F) 4100 Jammu and Kashmir Changed Political Assam Identity as Strategy (Ed) 1492 Communication Intrigue and Infringement Scenario; Rekha Chowdhary and Assam New Equations and Uneasy Alliances; (Ed) 292 V Nagendra Rao (C) 1963 Udayon Misra (C) 2291 A Death, Barely Noticed; M S Prabhakara Kerala: A Left Turn; K G Kumar (C) 2051 Assembly Elections Changing Dynamics in (C) 4733 Kerala Elections and After; K Haridas (C) 2053 Tamil Nadu; V Krishna Ananth (C) 1232 An Enigma Called Kanshi Ram; Left Front’s Electoral Victory in West Bengal: Assembly Polls 2006: A Foregone Outcome Anand Teltumbde (C) 4531 An Ethnographer’s Account; Dayabati Roy in Kerala? P S Nirmala (C) 866 From 50 Years Ago (February 11, 1956): and Parhta Sarathi Banerjee (F) 4251 Assembly Polls 2006: Elections, Jatra Style, Grooming Successors (Ed) 453 Letters (June 10, 2006); Prabhat Kumar; in West Bengal; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 864 An Ideology of and for the ‘Many’; K Ravi Srinivas (LE) 2274 Bahujan Samaj Party: Kanshi Ram’s Legacy GPD (F) 4529 Lula at the Crossroads? Workers’ Party (Ed) 4304 Pakistan: General in His Labyrinth; and Political Crisis in Brazil; Bangladesh: Musical Chairs; Zafar Sobhan Arif Azad (C) 3941 Gianpaolo Baiocchi (F) 675 (F) 3918 POTA and the Case of Raja Bhaiya; Lula Government and the Brazilian Political Britain: The Party that Blair Built (Ed) 4228 Ujjwal Kumar Singh (C) 19 Scenario; Carlos Edardo Martins (F) 681 China Rise of the Communist Youth League; Sons and Daughters; GPD (C) 378 Maharashtra Politics of Frustrations, Junfei Wu (C) 1172 POLITICAL SCIENCE Anxieties and Outrage; Churning of the Social Base (Ed) 1935 Morality in Politics; Vidhu Verma (BR) 2458 Rajeshwari Deshpande (C) 1304 Coalitions and Elections (Ed) 1823 POLITICAL SITUATION Making the Impossible Possible; Electoral Politics in Post-Conflict Societies: The ‘Ides’ of April: Lessons from Nepal; Rahul Varman (BR) 3407 Case of Punjab; Praveen Priyadarshi and Sumanta Banerjee (C) 1831 The Media: Politic, Ethics and the Law; Neera Chandhoke (SA) 811 Assam New Equations and Uneasy Alliances; A G Noorani (BR) 483 An Enigma Called Kanshi Ram; Udayon Misra (C) 2291 Municipal Elections in Uttar Pradesh; Anand Teltumbde (C) 4531 Assembly Elections Changing Dynamics A K Verma (C) 5218 First Step to a Republic (Ed) 1599 in Tamil Nadu; V Krishna Ananth (C) 1232 Narayan, Thou Hast Done the From 50 Years Ago (August 11, 1956): Assembly Polls 2006: A Foregone Outcome Extraordinary!; GPD (F) 5215 Electoral Marriage (Ed) 3449 in Kerala? P S Nirmala (C) 866 Nepal: A People in Transition; Gautam From 50 Years Ago (January 7, 1956): Assembly Polls 2006: Elections, Jatra Style, Navlakha and Anand Swaroop Verma Dualism in Congress (Ed) 5 in West Bengal; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 864 (C) 3470 From 50 Years Ago (January, 1956): Bangladesh: Musical Chairs; Zafar Sobhan The New Political Vocabulary; Crisis within Congress (Ed) 293 (F) 3918 M S Prabhakara (C) 560 From 50 Years Ago (September 22, 1956): Being Women Councillors; Usha Thakkar Of Quotas and Traps; Zaheer Ali (C) 5304 Balancing the Two Wings (Ed) 3997 (BR) 713 On the ‘Comprehensive Peace Agreement’ Game On Bangladesh’s Pre-Election Season Brazil’s External Policy; R Viswanathan in Nepal; Azad (LE) 5094 in Full Swing; Zafar Sobhan (C) 1736 (F) 685 Orthodox Economic Policies of the Lula An Ideology of and for the ‘Many’; Communication Intrigue and Infringement Administration; Marcelo Dias Carcanholo GPD (F) 4529 (Ed) 292 (F) 679

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Pakistan: Civil and Uncivil Society; Twenty Years after Chernobyl: Debates and POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES S Akbar Zaidi (F) 3556 Lessons; M V Ramana (C) 1743 Budget Making a lâ Chidambaram; Pakistan: General in His Labyrinth; POOR EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1378 Arif Azad (C) 3941 Illegality and the Urban Poor; Redefining Poverty: A New Poverty Line Pakistan: Thinking about Regime Change: Usha Ramanathan (P) 3193 for a New India; Mohan Guruswamy and The Duck Loses Its Gait; Haris Gazdar POPULATION Ronald Joseph Abraham (P) 2534 (F) 3455 Missing ‘Small Happinesses’; Mohan Rao POWER INDUSTRY Petroleum Pricing: Tinkering for (BR) 1777 Aftershocks of Dabhol Power Project; Short-term Gain (Ed) 2400 Two-Child Norm: Victimising the Madhav Godbole and E A S Sarma (C) 3640 The Philippines Killing Fields of Asia; Vulnerable? Francis Raj; Leela Visaria China’s Power Sector: Shortages Complicate Robin Eastman-Abaya and James Petras and Akash Acharya (SA) 41 Reforms; Sunil Mathrani (C) 193 (C) 1627 POPULATION POLICY Electricity Reform; Jagdish Sagar (LE) 80 Political Dynamics in Madhya Pradesh; The ‘Demographic Dividend’ and Young Governance of Power Sector: Orissa’s Shaibal Gupta (D) 1723 India’s Economic Future; Experiments with Village Electricity Rural Sector under the Lula Government; C P Chandrasekhar; Jayati Ghosh and Committees; Chandra Dash (C) 195 Albuquerque Maria Beatriz de David and Anamitra Roychowdhury (SA) 5055 Political Economy of the Electricity Subsidy: Paula de Andrade Rollo (F) 683 Missing ‘Small Happinesses’; Mohan Rao Evidence from Punjab; Varinder Jain Social Transformation and Political Power: (BR) 1777 (SA) 4072 Maoists in Nepal; Saroj Giri (SA) 2147 Two-Child Norm: Victimising the Revival of Dabhol Power Project; Sons and Daughters; GPD (C) 378 Vulnerable? Francis Raj; Leela Visaria V Ranganathan (LE) 4094 Sordid Democratic Process (Ed) 371 and Akash Acharya (SA) 41 POWER SECTOR REFORMS Sri Lanka: A Ceasefire in Fragments (Ed) 3449 PORTS China’s Power Sector: Shortages Complicate Sri Lanka: Barbarism in War; Underdevelopment by Design? Reforms; Sunil Mathrani (C) 193 Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 3748 Undermining Vital Infrastructure in Electricity Reform; Jagdish Sagar (LE) 80 Sudan Stumbling towards Peace (Ed) 1936 Orissa; Keshab Das (SA) 642 Governance of Power Sector: Orissa’s Suffrage in West Bengal; AM (C) 2048 United States Of Ports and Patriotism Experiments with Village Electricity Tamil Nadu More Stars than Ever; (Ed) 936 Committees; Chandra Dash (C) 195 Rajan Krishnan (C) 2414 POTA POWER TARIFF Tamil Nadu New Times Ahead; Mohammed Afzal’s Hanging; Measuring the Marginal Value of Water and M S S Pandian (C) 2181 Deepika Tandon (LE) 4094 Elasticity of Demand for Water in Tribute Strini Moodley’s Legacy; POTA and the Case of Raja Bhaiya; Agriculture; E Somanathan and M S Prabhakara (C) 2197 Ujjwal Kumar Singh (C) 19 R Ravindranath (SA) 2712 Way Forward for Left in Latin America? POVERTY PRECIOUS METALS Sujatha Fernandes (F) 3344 Development and Deprivation of Scheduled India’s Elasticity of Demand for Gold; Who’s Afraid of Buddhadeb? GPD (C) 1956 Tribes; Sandip Sarkar; Sunil Mishra; Anand Chandavarkar and I G Patel POLITICAL VIOLENCE Harishwar Dayal and Dev Nathan (SA) 507 The ‘Other’ Tragedy (Ed) 5019 (SA) 4824 PRESS Bangladesh: Violent Countdown (Ed) 5293 Employment and Poverty in India during Cartoon Protests: Religion and Freedom The Philippines Killing Fields of Asia; the 1990s: Is there a Diverging Trend? (Ed) 536 Robin Eastman-Abaya and Sanjay K Hansda and Partha Ray (SA) 3014 The Constitution and Journalists’ Sources; James Petras (C) 1627 Food Insecurity in Gujarat: A Study of Two A G Noorani (CL) 2964 Sinking Old Horizons, Imagining New Ones: Rural Populations; Sujoy Chakravarty and Economic Man, the Fourth Estate and Debunking Exceptionalism; Sejal A Dand (SA) 2248 CPI(M) in Kerala; K T Rammohan (C) 3649 Rudolf C Heredia (BR) 3586 Gender, Households and Poverty: Tracking From 50 Years Ago (September 1, 1956): Violence in Singur; A Reader (LE) 5088 Mediations of Macro Adjustment Price-Page Schedule (Ed) 3745 POLITICS AND RELIGION Programmes; Lakshmi Lingam (SA) 1989 Media Covering Parliament; Bangladesh Troubled Future; Sarmila Bose Indian Industry: Aftermath of Reforms; Vinod Chowdhury (LE) 4920 (BR) 806 J C Sandesara (BR) 800 The Media: Politics, Ethics and the Law; From 50 Years Ago (September 22, 1956): Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global A G Noorani (BR) 483 Balancing the Two Wings (Ed) 3997 Picture; Martha Chen; Joann Vanek and The New Political Vocabulary; Maharashtra Politics of Frustrations, James Heintz (SA) 2131 M S Prabhakara (C) 560 Anxieties and Outrage; Rajeshwari Is Culture the Culprit? Rahul Ramagundam Official Truth as Judicial Truth, via the Deshpande (C) 1304 (C) 4857 Media; Subhendu Dasgupta (BR) 3206 Memories, Saffronising Statues and On Backwardness and Fair Access to PRESS FREEDOM Constructing Communal Politics; Higher Education: Results from The Constitution and Journalists’ Sources; Badri Narayan (SA) 4695 NSS 55th Round Surveys, 1999-2000; A G Noorani (CL) 2964 Municipal Elections in Uttar Pradesh; K Sundaram (SA) 5173 PRIMARY EDUCATION A K Verma (C) 5218 Poverty and Capitalism; Cess-driven Allocations for Education; Portents of Nanded: Bajrang Dal and the Barbara Harriss-White (P) 1241 Jandhyala B G Tilak (C) 1331 Bomb? Subhash Gatade (C) 2055 Redefining Poverty: A New Poverty Line Early Education; Zakiyya Kurien (LE) 1928 Uttar Pradesh: Formation of Muslim Political for a New India; Mohan Guruswamy and Education An Evaluation; Kumar Rana Fronts; A K Verma (C) 4241 Ronald Joseph Abraham (P) 2534 (BR) 207 Waiting for Enlightenment; Rights of the Poor: An Overview of Mid-Day Meals in Primary Schools: Pervez Hoodbhoy (F) 3136 Supreme Court; Rakesh Shukla (C) 3755 Achievements and Challenges; POLLUTION Unknown Extent, Distribution and Trend of Reetika Khera (P) 4742 Environment Protection: Role of Regulatory Global Income Poverty; Thomas Pogge and A Mission Approach to Sarva Shiksha System in India; P M Prasad (SA) 1278 Sanjay G Reddy (SA) 2241 Abhiyan; Gursharan Singh Kainth (C) 3288

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Primary Education as a Fundamental Right: FRBM Act and Eleventh Plan Approach Politics of Pro-poor Reforming the Health Cost Implications; S Chandrasekhar and Paper; D K Srivastava (F) 4553 Sector: Primary Healthcare in Tribal Areas Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (SA) 3797 Is the Institution of District Magistrate Still of Visakhapatnam; M Gopinath Reddy; Primary Education: Debating Quality and Necessary? D Bandyopadhyay (C) 4851 K Jayalakshmi and Anne-Marie Goetz Quantity; Manabi Majumdar (C) 785 The Politics of Sound Finance; (SA) 419 Revisiting Dropouts: Old Issues, Fresh Amit Bhaduri (F) 4569 Public health of foundation of India: Perspectives; Amit Choudhury (SA) 5257 Reconciling the Irreconcilable; Redefining Public Health? Towards a Knowledge-Based Society; Percy S Mistry (C) 4244 C Sathyamala (C) 3280 J V Deshpande (C) 3933 Representation of Minorities in Civil Public Health: Burden of Disease (Ed) 4228 Urban Schooling: Mired in Apathy and Services; Syed Najiullah (C) 688 Unmet National Health Needs: Visions of Prejudice; Vimala Ramachandran (C) 383 PUBLIC DEBT Public Health Foundation of India; PRISONERS The 1999 Brazilian Financial Crisis: K Srinath Reddy and Kavita Andhra Pradesh: Institutional Apathy ‘Macho-Monetarism’ in Action; Sivaramakrishnan (C) 3927 towards Undertrial Prisoners; Gabriel Palma (SA) 727 Whither Public Health; Imrana Quader K Murali (C) 3936 Assets and Liabilities of Government of (LE) 1934 PRIVATE SECTOR India; EPW Research Foundation (CS) 1227 PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION Finances of Private Corporate Sector: PUBLIC DEBT, STATES Public Interest Litigation; Shobha Aggarwal Recent Trends; EPW Research Foundation Twelfth Finance Commission and Backward (LE) 4220 (CS) 4099 States; G R Reddy (SA) 3513 Some Constitutional Dilemmas; Flights of Corporate Fantasy; C R Sridhar PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Ramaswamy R Iyer (P) 2064 (LE) 842 Wheat Back to Imports? (Ed) 1600 PUBLIC REVENUES From 50 Years Ago (August 18, 1956): PUBLIC EXPENDITURE The Critics Are Not Keynesian Enough: Finance for the Private Sector (Ed) 3553 Budget Making a lâ Chidambaram; EPW Fiscal Responsibility and Growth; From 50 Years Ago (May 5, 1956): Research Foundation (SS) 1378 Errol D’Souza (F) 4565 Reaffirmation of Welfare State (Ed) 1733 The Critics Are Not Keynesian Enough: FRBM Act and Eleventh Plan Approach Performance of Non-Government Fiscal Responsibility and Growth; Paper; D K Srivastava (F) 4553 Non-Financial Private Limited Companies; Errol D’Souza (F) 4565 The Politics of Sound Finance; EPW Research Foundation (CS) 375 Determinants of Expenditure on Education: Amit Bhaduri (F) 4569 PRIVATISATION An Empirical Analysis Using State Level What Is Wrong with Sound Finance; Airport Privatisation Case: Public Law Data; Anindita Chakrabarti and Prabhat Patnaik (F) 4560 and Public Sector Reform; Rama Joglekar (SA) 1465 PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS Sudhir Krishnaswamy (C) 4239 FRBM Act and Eleventh Plan Approach Mythology of Banking Ownership; At a Standstill (Ed) 3263 Paper; D K Srivastava (F) 4553 K B L Mathur (C) 5039 Audit Reports on Disinvestment; From 50 Years Ago (March 17,1956): The Strike in SBI: Reflections of a B P Mathur (F) 5114 Control Over Expenditure (Ed) 937 Sympathiser of Workers’ Rights; Flights of Corporate Fantasy; C R Sridhar Impact of Economic Reforms on Social Vinod Vyasulu (C) 1500 (LE) 842 Sector Expenditure in India; Seema Joshi Universal Banking: Solution for India’s Privatisation In Chhattisgarh, a River (SA) 358 Financial Challenges? A K Khandelwal (SA) Becomes Private Property; Binayak Das The Politics of Sound Finance; 969 and Ganesh Pangare (F) 611 Amit Bhaduri (F) 4569 PUBLIC SECTOR ENTERPRISES Privatisation in India; Anil K Makhija (F) 1947 Public Spending, Outcomes and Accountability: Airport Privatisation Case: Public Law and Restructuring of SLPEs in India: A Citizen Report Card as a Catalyst for Public Public Sector Reform; Macroanalysis; R K Mishra and Action; Samuel Paul (SA) 333 Sudhir Krishnaswamy (C) 4239 J Kiranmai (SA) 4170 Transformation of Central Grants to States: At a Standstill (Ed) 3263 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Growing Conditionality and Bypassing Audit Reports on Disinvestment; Ethics in Social Sciences: Report of a State Budgets; Subhash Chandra Garg B P Mathur (F) 5114 National Consultation; SunitaSheel (F) 4977 Finances of Non-Government Non-Financial Bandewar; Akash Acharya; Sudarshan What Is Wrong with Sound Finance; Large Public Limited Companies; Iyengar; Biswaroop Das and Prabhat Patnaik (F) 4560 EPW Research Foundation (CS) 2179 Ratnawali Sinha (C) 2702 Why Do the States Not Spend? An Privatisation in India; Anil K Makhija (F) 1947 PROHIBITION Exploration of the Phenomenon of Cash Public Sector Performance since 1950: From 50 Years Ago (May 19, 1956): Surpluses and the FRBM Legislation; A Fresh Look; R Nagaraj (SA) 2551 Dream and Reality (Ed) 1937 T M Thomas Isaac and Restructuring of SLPEs in India: A PROPERTY TAX R Ramakumar (F) 4965 Macroanalysis; R K Mishra and Fiscal and Distributional Implications of PUBLIC FINANCE J Kiranmai (SA) 4170 Property Tax Reforms in Indian Cities; Myth of Laissez-faire in Colonial India; Simple Analytics of Public Sector Pricing in a Somik V Lall and Uwe Deichmann (SA) 3209 Anand Chandavarkar (BR) 3772 Capacity Constrained Mixed Economy; PROSTITUTION PUBLIC HEALTH Vishwanath Pandit and Badal Mukherji Beyond Boundaries; P S Leela (BR) 1249 Analysis of Public and Private Healthcare (SA) 2332 Empowerment of Sex Workers The Kolkata Expenditures; Ramesh Bhat and PUBLIC SERVANTS Experience; Swati Ghosh (D) 1289 Nishant Jain (SA) 57 Representation of Minorities in Civil PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Challenge to Public Health (Ed) 667 Services; Syed Najiullah (C) 688 Budgetary Rules and Plan Financing: Debates in Public Health; Pratik Chakrabarti PUNE Revisiting the Fiscal Responsibility Act; (BR) 2457 Fiscal and Distributional Implications of Mihir Rakshit (F) 4547 Drug Firms vs Public Health (Ed) 5291 Property Tax Reforms in Indian Cities; Delimitation in India: Methodological Issues; Meeting the AIDS Challenge; Somik V Lall and Uwe Deichmann A K Verma (P) 794 Suneetha Kadiyala (BR) 1187 (SA) 3209

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Romancing Material Culture in Urban Public RAINS Interest Rate Hike: Dictates of Caution Spaces: The Case of Valentine’s Day in Mumbai Floods: A Year Later (Ed) 3264 (Ed) 3264 Pune; Rohini Sahni and V Kalyan Shankar RAJASTHAN Investment Credit to Agriculture; (SA) 649 Anokhi: In the Craft of Block-Printing; Bhupat M Desai (C) 693 PUNJAB Adarsh Kumar (F) 3371 Managing the Transition to Convertibility; Beyond ‘Crises’: Rethinking Contemporary Contending Water Uses: Biodiversity vs Jamal Mecklai and C Chandrasekhar Punjab Agriculture; Surinder S Jodhka Irrigation: Case of Keoladeo (F) 1878 (F) 1530 National Park; Malavika Chauhan (F) 575 Mythology of Banking Ownership; Construction of Gender and Religious Financial Status of Rural Poor: A Study in K B L Mathur (C) 5039 Identities in the First Punjabi Novel Udaipur District; M S Sriram and Need for Flexibility in Financial Sector Sundari; Gurpreet Bal (SA) 3528 Smita Parhi (SA) 5269 Reform; EPW Research Foundation Contract Farming through Agribusiness Judicial Pronouncements and Caste; (MMR) 4000 Firms and State Corporation: Rakesh Shukla (C) 4411 Pitfalls of Synchronisation with A Case Study in Punjab; Pramod Kumar Micro-Level Disputes Traditional Water Global Policy Trends; EPW Research (SA) 5367 Harvesting Structure: Community behind Foundation (MMR) 2404 Credit, Indebtedness and Farmer Suicides ‘Community’; Prakash Kashwan (F) 596 RBI Autonomy in Historical Perspective; in Punjab: Some Missing Links; Political Economy of State Response to Tapas Kumar Chakrabarty (LE) 534 Sukhpal Singh (D) 3330 Drought in Rajasthan, 2000-03; Reserve Bank of India’s Accounts and Electoral Politics in Post-Conflict Societies: Reetika Khera (SA) 5163 Operations (July-June); EPW Research Case of Punjab; Praveen Priyadarshi and Upstream vs Downstream: Groundwater Foundation (CS) 3831 Neera Chandhoke (SA) 811 Management and Rainwater Harvesting; Roadmap to Risk and Volatility (Ed) 3827 Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public Sunil Ray and Mahendra Bijarnia (SA) 2375 Warehouse Financing Short on Logic Policy: Evidence, Diagnosis and Urmul: Weaving Self-Reliance; M Aruna and Long on Imagination; Alternatives from Punjab; Anita Gill and (F) 3374 Madhoo Pavaskar (C) 1754 Lakhwinder Singh (SA) 2762 RAWLS, JOHN Why Capital Account Convertibility in India Gendering Oral History of Partition: The State, Democracy and Global Justice; Is Premature; John Williamson (F) 1848 Interrogating Patriarchy; Vidhu Verma (SA) 3728 REFUGEES Anjali Bhardwaj Datta (F) 2229 RBI From 50 Years Ago (March 24, 1956): Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and Blurring of Development Goals in No Place for Na-Paks! (Ed) 1149 Suicides in Punjab; P Satish (SA) 2754 Refinancing; EPW Research Foundation The Refugee’s World; Ranabir Samaddar Integrated Land and Water Use: A Case (MMR) 1154 (BR) 4038 Study of Punjab; A S Bhullar and Budgetary Rules and Plan Financing: REGIONAL DISPARITIES R S Sidhu (SA) 5353 Revisiting the Fiscal Responsibility Act; ‘Jalayagnam’ and Bridging Regional The Last Journey: Exploring Social Class Mihir Rakshit (F) 4547 Disparities: Irrigation Development and in the 1947 Partition Migration; Buying Time (Ed) 1491 Distribution in Andhra Pradesh; Ravinder Kaur (F) 2221 Can Primary Dealers Replace RBI in Security V Ratna Reddy (SA) 4613 Political Economy of the Electricity Subsidy: Issues? EPW Research Foundation REGULATORY AGENCIES Evidence from Punjab; Varinder Jain (MMR) 1604 Structuring Regulation: Constitutional and (SA) 4072 Case for Government Direction on Interest Legal Frame in India; Jaivir Singh and Transboundary Disputes Politics and Rates; EPW Research Foundation T C A Anant (P) 121 Litigation Play Havoc: Sutlej Yamuna Link (MMR) 3632 RELIEF AND REHABILITATION Canal; Indira Khurana (F) 608 Casino Capitalism in the Making? (Ed) 1223 Asian Tsunami: Measuring Relief (Ed) 5292 Unravelling Bhakra; Central Bank Autonomy and Monetary Death Knell in the Narmada Valley; Shripad Dharmadhikary (D) 285 Federalism: Ruminations of a Practitioner; Betwa Sharma (C) 5224 RAILWAY BUDGET A K N Ahmed (F) 3832 Development through Dismemberment of Are the Railways Reforming? S Sriraman (C) Central Banking Changing Roles (Ed) 1148 the Weak: Threat of Polavaram Project; 1329 Comments on RBI; A Vasudevan (LE) 3736 N Subba Reddy (F) 1430 From 50 Years Ago (February 25, 1956): Curtailing Capability of NABARD; Displacement and Rehabilitation: A The Railway Budget (Ed) 669 EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 4396 Comparison of Two Policy Drafts; Railways Time to Invest (Ed) 769 Dear Money Policy, Rising Yields and High Shekhar Singh (C) 5307 RAILWAYS Interest Costs; EPW Research Foundation Inside Gujarat’s Relief Colonies: Are the Railways Reforming? (MMR) 3268 Surviving State Hostility and Denial; S Sriraman (C) 1329 Exuberance in Financial Markets: Towards Harsh Mander (F) 5235 From 50 Years Ago (August 25, 1956): What End? EPW Research Foundation Narmada and the Myth of Rehabilitation; Welcome Slant on Operational Efficiency (MMR) 5208 Mike Levien (F) 3581 (Ed) 3629 Financial Inclusion in a Deregulated Regime; Orissa Draft Resettlement and Rehabilitation From 50 Years Ago (December 1, 1956): Clearing Corporation of India Limited Policy, 2006; Manipadma Jena (C) 384 Railway Minister Bows Out (Ed) 4929 (MMR) 1940 Political Economy of State Response to Railways Time to Invest (Ed) 769 Flawed Logic of Capital Account Liberalisation; Drought in Rajasthan, 2000-03; Standard Gauge or Broad Gauge? Amitva Krishna Dutt (F) 1850 Reetika Khera (SA) 5163 Revisiting the Metro Rail Debate; From 50 Years Ago (July 21, 1956): Relief Package for Farmers: Can It Stop M Ravibabu (C) 4248 Dead-Wood and Danger (Ed) 3133 Suicides? A Narayanamoorthy (C) 3353 Underdevelopment by Design? An Independent Federal RBI: Agathopian Trampled on Forever (Ed) 1299 Undermining Vital Infrastructure in Dream? A Viswanathan (D) 166 Tribal Land Alienation in Andhra Pradesh: Orissa; Keshab Das (SA) 642 Independent Federal Reserve Bank of India: Processes, Impacts and Policy Concerns; Viability of Surface Rail for Urban Mass A Response to Comments; S Laxman Rao; Priya Deshingkar and Transit; M Ravibabu (C) 1506 Anand Chandavarkar (D) 3119 John Farrington (SA) 5401

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Underdevelopment and Naxal Movement; Examining the Creamy Layer Principle; Right to Information: An Amendment Rajat Kumar Kujur (C) 557 S Subramanian (C) 4643 Too Soon (Ed) 3340 Wildlife Protection: Reintroduction and Exclusive Inequalities: Merit, Caste and Science and the Right to Information; Relocation; Asmita Kabra (C) 1309 Discrimination in Indian Higher Education Madhav Gadgil (SA) 1895 RELIGION Today; Satish Deshpande (F) 2438 RISK MANAGEMENT Courting Controversy in the West; Expansion of IIMs: Myths, Realities and Internal Credit Rating Practices of Jakob De Roover (C) 1764 Policy Choices; Ramesh Gupta (C) 2971 Indian Banks; M Jayadev (F) 1069 Faith and the Musician: Ustads in Modern Higher Education Needs a Longer View; Liquidity Risk: Causes, Consequences India; Lakshmi Subramanian (C) 4648 Pulapre Balakrishnan (C) 3458 and Implications for Risk Management; How Modern Are We? Cultural Implicit Quota; Chandrashekhar G Ranade Viral V Acharya (F) 460 Contradictions of India’s Modernity; (LE) 0 RIVER WATER DISPUTES Meera Nanda (SA) 491 Is Positive Discrimination a Good Way to Aid ‘Million Revolts’ in the Making; Biksham Interrogating Caste and Religion in India’s Disadvantaged Ethnic Communities? Gujja; K J Joy; Suhas Paranjape; Emerging Middle Class; N J Demerath III; Thomas E Weisskopf (SA) 717 Vinod Goud and Shruti Vispute (F) 570 Surinder S Jodhka and Loren R Demerath Karnataka: The Muted Anti-Reservation Conflicts over International Waters; (SA) 3813 Agitation; Muzaffar Assadi (C) 3146 Rakesh Tiwary (F) 1684 Jammu and Kashmir: Pilgrim’s Progress Letters (June 03, 2006); Lon W McDaniel Micro-Level Disputes Failure of Community Causes Regression; Gautam Navlakha and Jameel Pasha (LE) 2174 Institutions: Shapin River Basin in (C) 2975 Merit of Reservations; Kancha Ilaiah (F) 2447 Jharkhand; Pankaj Lal; Kamaldeo Singh Papal Reflections; Rudolf C Heredia (C) 4013 Merits of Mandal II (Ed) 1403 and Kapildeo Prasad (F) 598 Secularism, Religiosity and Popular Culture: Myopic Oversight (Ed) 4523 Narmada and the Myth of Rehabilitation; Chennai’s Roadside Temples; U Kalpagam OBC Reservations in Higher Education: Mike Levien (F) 3581 (SA) 4595 Are They Worth All the Turmoil? Transboundary Disputes Politics and Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching Sebastian Morris (C) 2701 Litigation Play Havoc: Sutlej Yamuna Link History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Of Quotas and Traps; Zaheer Ali (C) 5304 Canal; Indira Khurana (F) 608 Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 On Backwardness and Fair Access to Transboundary Disputes Two Neighbours RELIGIOUS CONVERSIONS Higher Education: Results from NSS and a Treaty: Baglihar Project in Hot Birth of a Goddess: Vande Mataram, 55th Round Surveys, 1999-2000; Waters; Rajesh Sinha (F) 606 Anandamath, and Hindu Nationhood; K Sundaram (SA) 5173 RIVERS Tanika Sarkar (SA) 3959 On Reservation; J Akshay (LE) 1598 IRLP or the Ecological Approach to Rivers? The Time of the Dalit Conversion; Paying the Social Debt; Sukhdeo Thorat Nazrul Islam (F) 1693 Gyanendra Pandey (SA) 1779 (F) 2432 ROAD TRANSPORT RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION Physician, Heal Thyself; Sumanta Banerjee Advantages of Bus Rapid Transit Systems; Prejudice in the Cause of Security (Ed) 3743 (C) 2190 Shirish B Patel (D) 2035 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RANG DE BASANTI: Morality and the Collective Care Arrangements in the Assisting Childbirth; Punam Zutshi (BR) 2310 Reservation Issue; Jasraman Singh Grewal Informal Labour Market: Road Transport A Critique of Healthcare Policy in India; (C) 4114 Workers in Pakistan; Zeenat Hisam Kannamma Raman (BR) 4579 Redesigning Affirmative Action: Castes and (SA) 2099 Demand Side Financing for Reproductive Benefits in Higher Education; Satish Eminent Domain or Eminent Thievery? and Child Health Services in India; Deshpande and Yogendra Yadav (F) 2419 Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor; A Gorter; K R Thankappan; C A K Yesudian Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics V Ranganathan (C) 2697 and M R Bhatia (SA) 279 and Reservation; Mritiunjoy Mohanty ROADS Falling Fertility and Rising Anaemia? (SA) 3777 Disconnecting Experience: Making Ashish Bose (C) 3923 Solution for Reservations; Vithal Rajan World-class Roads in Mumbai; Preliminary Findings from the Third National (LE) 3328 Nikhil Anand (SA) 3422 Family Health Survey; Kamla Gupta; Three Myths about Reservations; RSS Sulabha Parasuraman; P Arokiasamy; Neera Chandhoke (C) 2289 Memories, Saffronising Statues and S K Singh and H Lhungdim (C) 4417 Towards a Knowledge-Based Society; Constructing Communal Politics; RESERVATION POLICY J V Deshpande (C) 3933 Badri Narayan (SA) 4695 Anti-Reservation Protest Shoring Up RETAIL TRADE An Occasion for the RSS; GPD (C) 1165 Privilege; Badri Raina (C) 1957 A Review of Bank Lending to Priority and Portents of Nanded: Bajrang Dal and the Assumptions and Arithmetic of Caste-Based Retail Sectors; Mohua Roy (SA) 1035 Bomb? Subhash Gatade (C) 2055 Reservations; Rohini Somanathan (F) 2436 REVOLUTION RSS and Sindhi Hindus; Rita Kothari (D) 5414 Case for Caste-based Quotas in Higher Making the Impossible Possible; RSS in Sindh: 1942-48; Rita Kothari (SA) 3007 Education; Jayati Ghosh (F) 2428 Rahul Varman (BR) 3407 RURAL BANKS Caste Indignities and Subjected RICE Agricultural Credit in India: Status, Issues Personhoods; A R Vasavi (P) 3766 Drought, Agricultural Risk and Rural and Future Agenda; Rakesh Mohan Democracy, Disagreement and Merit; Income: Case of a Water Limiting Rice (SA) 1013 Pratap Bhanu Mehta (F) 2425 Production Environment, Tamil Nadu; Cooperatives Recipe for Revival (Ed) 668 Distorting the Reality of Aligarh Muslim K N Selvaraj and C Ramasamy (SA) 2739 Credit, Indebtedness and Farmer Suicides University; Iqbal Ansari (C) 101 RIGHT TO FOOD in Punjab: Some Missing Links; Engineering Colleges, ‘Exposure’ and ICDS and Right to Food; George Kent (D) 4702 Sukhpal Singh (D) 3330 Information Technology Professionals in RIGHT TO INFORMATION Curtailing Capability of NABARD; Tamil Nadu; C J Fuller and Haripriya Administrative Reforms Commission and EPW Research Foundation (MMR) 4396 Narasimhan (SA) 258 Right to Information; Shekhar Singh (C) 4110 Exuberance in Financial Markets: Towards The Eternal Debate; Ashwini Deshpande Right to Information Act Loopholes and What End? EPW Research Foundation (F) 2444 Road Ahead; O P Kejriwal (C) 940 (MMR) 5208

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Financial Inclusion: Issues and Challenges; Power of the People: Political Mobilisation Debashis Chakraborty; D Shyam Babu and S Mahendra Dev (F) 4310 and Guaranteed Employment; Manashi Chakravorty (SA) 2478 Human Resource Issues at Regional Rural Shaji Joseph (F) 5149 Case for Caste-based Quotas in Banks; Dinkar Rao (C) 954 Rural Wages during the 1990s: Higher Education; Jayati Ghosh (F) 2428 Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and A Re-estimation; Ravi Srivastava and Caste Indignities and Subjected Suicides in Punjab; P Satish (SA) 2754 Richa Singh (SA) 4053 Personhoods; A R Vasavi (P) 3766 Microcredit Wins Nobel: A Stocktaking; Trends in Agricultural Wages in India: Dalits: Prejudice in Institutions (Ed) 4392 K Kalpana (C) 5110 1964-65 to 1999-2000; Pallavi Chavan and Democracy, Disagreement and Merit; Productivity Growth in Regional Rural Rajshree Bedamatta (SA) 4041 Pratap Bhanu Mehta (F) 2425 Banks; A Amarender Reddy (F) 1079 RURAL POVERTY Deprived Castes and Privileged Politics: An A Review of Bank Lending to Priority Changing Rural Livelihoods; Urban Informal Market in Contemporary and Retail Sectors; Mohua Roy (SA) 1035 Ben Rogaly (BR) 4755 India; Kaveri Gill (SA) 133 Reviving Cooperative Credit Institutions: Financial Status of Rural Poor: A Study in Development and Deprivation of Scheduled Implementation Issues; M S Sriram (C) 298 Udaipur District; M S Sriram and Tribes; Sandip Sarkar; Sunil Mishra; RURAL DEVELOPMENT Smita Parhi (SA) 5269 Harishwar Dayal and Dev Nathan Broadening the Scope of Watershed Human Resource Issues at Regional Rural (SA) 4824 Development; Deepa Joshi (F) 2987 Banks; Dinkar Rao (C) 954 Draft National Tribal Policy of 2006: Displacement and Rehabilitation: A RURAL SOCIOLOGY Creating Consternation; B K Roy Burman Comparison of Two Policy Drafts; Rural Tele-density; T H Chowdary (C) 393 (C) 3645 Shekhar Singh (C) 5307 RUSSIA Environmental Policy, Legislation and From the PM, for the Drylands (Ed) 83 Civil Society and Democratic Space in Construction of Social Nature; Issues in Restructuring; Amita Shah; Russia; Archana Upadhyay (C) 4651 Ajit Menon (C) 188 Sharachchandra Lele; Shrinivas Badiger; From 50 Years Ago (December 22,1956): The Eternal Debate; Ashwini Deshpande K J Joy and Subhash Paranjape (F) 2994 Russian Aid for Steel (Ed) 5205 (F) 2444 Need to Flesh Out Proposals; Monetary Policy and Operations in Examining the Creamy Layer Principle; Ashesh Ambasta (F) 2991 Countries with Surplus Liquidity; S Subramanian (C) 4643 Neglect of Rural Sector; Kripa Shankar Mridul Saggar (SA) 1041 Exclusive Inequalities: Merit, Caste and (LE) 1298 Oil and Politics in Russia: Tightening Grip Discrimination in Indian Higher Education Restructuring Watershed Development on Pipelines; R G Gidadhubli (C) 3358 Today; Satish Deshpande (F) 2438 Programmes; A Vaidyanathan (F) 2984 Settlements and Disputes: China’s Forest Bill 2005 and Tribal Areas: Case of Towards Reforms; Mihir Shah (F) 2981 Approach to Territorial Issues; Jharkhand; Ritambhara Hebbar (F) 4952 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION Neville Maxwell (SA) 3873 Gender, Caste and Fiction: A Bahujan Rural Electrification Slipping through SAARC Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali; the Net (Ed) 2276 SAFTA Uncertain Gains (Ed) 4 Ajay Sekher (C) 4422 RURAL LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT SAFTA: Myth of Free Trade; Judicial Pronouncements and Caste; Changing Rural Livelihoods; Ben Rogaly Dushni Weerakoon and Rakesh Shukla (C) 4411 (BR) 4755 Jayanthi Thennakoon (C) 3920 Kherlanji: Caste Violence (Ed) 4632 Elite Politics and Maharashtra’s SACHAR COMMITTEE Left Front’s Electoral Victory in West Bengal: Employment Guarantee Scheme; Sachar committee: A Call for Inclusion An Ethnographer’s Account; Dayabati Roy Vishal Jadhav (F) 5157 (Ed) 5096 and Parhta Sarathi Banerjee (F) 4251 Empowerment, Co-option and Domination: SALES TAX Merit of Reservations; Kancha Ilaiah Politics of Maharashtra’s Employment Social Structure, Tax Culture and the State: (F) 2447 Guarantee Scheme; Sujata Patel (F) 5126 The Case of Tamil Nadu; Amrita Jairaj and OBC Reservations in Higher Education: Food Security, Agrarian Crisis and Rural Barbara Harriss-White (SA) 5247 Are They Worth All the Turmoil? Sebastian Livelihoods: Implications for Women; SALT INDUSTRY Morris (C) 2701 Maithreyi Krishnaraj (SA) 5376 A Welcome Ban; Manu Kulkarni (LE) 82 Paying the Social Debt; Sukhdeo Thorat Government ‘Schedule of Rates’: Working SATI (F) 2432 against Rural Labour; P S Vijay Shankar; Judicial Pronouncements and Caste; Physician, Heal Thyself; Rangu Rao; Nivedita Banerji and Rakesh Shukla (C) 4411 Sumanta Banerjee (C) 2190 Mihir Shah (C) 1616 SAVINGS Redesigning Affirmative Action: Castes and Guaranteed Employment and Gender At the Threshold of 10 Per Cent Economic Benefits in Higher Education; Satish Construction: Women’s Mobilisation in Growth? Parthasarathi Shome (C) 943 Deshpande and Yogendra Yadav (F) 2419 Maharashtra; Anurekha Chari (F) 5141 Estimates of Gross Domestic Product, Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Improving the Effectiveness of National Saving and Capital Formation (New Series Rights) Bill: A View from Anthropology Rural Employment Guarantee Act; Base Year 1999-2000); EPW Research and Call for Dialogue; Arnab Sen and Yamini Aiyar and Salimah Samji (P) 320 Foundation (CS) 455 Esther Lalhrietpui (SA) 4205 Is Local Really Better? Comparing EGS and Revision of National Accounts Statistics A Scheduled Tribes Bill: For Whom and For Locally-Managed Rural Works Welcome Step, Good in Parts; S L Shetty What? Ranjit Sau (D) 5009 Programmes in Nasik District; (SA) 2317 Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics Sanjay Savale (F) 5133 SCAMS AND SCANDALS and Reservation; Mritiunjoy Mohanty NREGA implementation - I: Reasonable Stock Markets IPO Plot Thickens (Ed) 1824 (SA) 3777 Beginning in Palakkad, Kerala; SCHEDULED CASTES AND TRIBES Tribal Demography; Arjan de Haan (BR) 327 Arun Jacob and Richard Varghese (C) 4943 Assumptions and Arithmetic of Tribal Identities; M S Prabhakara (LE) 766 NREGA implementation - II: Birth Pangs in Caste-Based Reservations; Tribal Land Alienation in Andhra Pradesh: Bihar; Prakash Louis (C) 4946 Rohini Somanathan (F) 2436 Processes, Impacts and Policy Concerns; NREGA: Absence of Ownership; Jos Atrocities on Dalits: What the District Level S Laxman Rao; Priya Deshingkar and Chathukulam and K Gireesan (LE) 3338 Data Say on Society-State Complicity; John Farrington (SA) 5401

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Under-representation of Disadvantaged SECULARISM Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Classes in Colleges: What Do the Data Tell A Critique of Secular Nationalism; Households; Arup Mitra (SA) 2123 Us? Rana Hasan and Aashish Mehta M S S Pandian (BR) 5240 Mumbai Land: Housing Anarchy (Ed) 4836 (SA) 3791 Jammu and Kashmir: Pilgrim’s Progress NURM and the Poor in Globalising Mega Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: Causes Regression; Gautam Navlakha Cities; Darshini Mahadevia (P) 3399 Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; (C) 2975 Rights of the Poor: An Overview of Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 4261 Roots and the Route of Secularism in Sikkim; Supreme Court; Rakesh Shukla (C) 3755 SCHOOL EDUCATION Vibha Arora (SA) 4063 Sky Above, Mud Below: Slum Demolition Analysing Current Practices in Geography Secularism, Religiosity and Popular Culture: and Urban Cleansing; C R Sridhar (C) 2529 Education; Yemuna Sunny (SA) 270 Chennai’s Roadside Temples; U Kalpagam Travails of an Ordinary Citizen: A Tale Mid-Day Meals in Primary Schools: (SA) 4595 from Mumbai; Vidyadhar Date (C) 3473 Achievements and Challenges; Western Secularism and Colonial Legacy SMALL SAVINGS Reetika Khera (P) 4742 in India; Himanshu Roy (SA) 158 Small Savings: Receipts and Outstandings; Revisiting Dropouts: Old Issues, SELF-EMPLOYMENT EPW Research Foundation (CS) 5295 Fresh Perspectives; Amit Choudhury Urmul: Weaving Self-Reliance; M Aruna SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRIES (SA) 5257 (F) 3374 Commercial Bank Lending to Small-Scale Speaking Volumes: Religion and Teaching SELF-HELP GROUPS Industry; K S Ramachandra Rao; Abhiman History in India; Jessica Levknecht and Financial Inclusion: Issues and Challenges; Das and Arvind Kumar Singh (SA) 1025 Hema Ramanathan (P) 3853 S Mahendra Dev (F) 4310 Competition Policy and Practice in Canada: Urban Schooling; Usha Menon (LE) 836 SENIOR CITIZENS Salient Features and Some Perspectives for Urban Schooling: Mired in Apathy and Gender, Ageing and Social Security; India; K V Ramaswamy (SA) 1903 Prejudice; Vimala Ramachandran (C) 383 Meena Gopal (SA) 4477 Industrial Sickness: Trends and Patterns; SCIENCE AND SOCIETY SERVICES SECTOR Rosemary K Abraham and G Omkarnath Beyond Modern vs Alternative Science Domestic Terms of Trade in a Three-Sector (SA) 4161 Debate: Analysis of Magnetic Framework: Analysis for All-India and A Review of Bank Lending to Priority and Resonance Imaging Research; States; Surajit Deb (SA) 1713 Retail Sectors; Mohua Roy (SA) 1035 Amit Prasad (SA) 219 Growing Services in India: An Inter-Sectoral SOCIAL CAPITAL The Knowledge Debate Reopened; Analysis Based on State-Level Data; Prisoners of Social Capital; Olle Tornquist Ananya Vajpeyi (BR) 5241 Deepita Chakravarty (SA) 3061 (BR) 3404 Outsourcing Identities: Call Centres and SHIV SENA SOCIAL CHANGE Cultural Transformation in India; Maharashtra Politics of Frustrations, Budget Making a lâ Chidambaram; Divya C McMillin (SA) 235 Anxieties and Outrage; EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1378 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Rajeshwari Deshpande (C) 1304 Search for Answers at India Social Forum; Beyond Modern vs Alternative Science Narayan, Thou Hast Done the Mukul Sharma and Charu Gupta (C) 4937 Debate: Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Extraordinary!; GPD (F) 5215 Social Development in India; Imaging Research; Amit Prasad (SA) 219 SHUNGLU COMMITTEE S Mahendra Dev (BR) 3955 The Contradictory Spaces of Postcolonial Narmada and the Myth of Rehabilitation; SOCIAL CONDITIONS Techno-Science; Itty Abraham (SA) 210 Mike Levien (F) 3581 Insights into Economic Geography; From the PM, for the Drylands (Ed) 83 SIKHS Ajay Shah (BR) 1520 Regulatory Supervision of Emerging Construction of Gender and Religious SOCIAL JUSTICE Technologies: A Case for Nanotechnology Identities in the First Punjabi Novel Atrocities on Dalits: What the District Level in India; Nupur Chowdhury (C) 4730 Sundari; Gurpreet Bal (SA) 3528 Data Say on Society-State Complicity; Who Speaks for the Governed? Vernacular Writings on the Sikhs; Debashis Chakraborty; D Shyam Babu World Summit on Information Society, K L Tuteja (BR) 35 and Manashi Chakravorty (SA) 2478 Civil Society and the Limits of SIKKIM The State, Democracy and Global Justice; ‘Multistakeholderism’; Paula Chakravartty Indo-China Relations: A Historic Reopening Vidhu Verma (SA) 3728 (SA) 250 (Ed) 3132 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SCIENTISTS Roots and the Route of Secularism in Sikkim; Bamako Appeal: A Good Beginning (Ed) 1732 Abdus Salam: A Migrant Scientist in Vibha Arora (SA) 4063 Beyond the World Social Forum; Post-imperial Times; Alexis De Greiff A SINDH Sujatha Fernandes (C) 1230 (SA) 228 RSS and Sindhi Hindus; Rita Kothari (D) 5414 Birth of a Goddess: Vande Mataram, The Bomb, Biography and the Indian RSS in Sindh: 1942-48; Rita Kothari Anandamath, and Hindu Nationhood; Middle Class; Sankaran Krishna (SA) 2327 (SA) 3007 Tanika Sarkar (SA) 3959 Remembering Amulya; Vinod Vyasulu SINDHIS Convention of People’s Movements; (LE) 1822 Portrait of a Remarkable Community; Sanjay Sangvai (C) 3563 Tribute Amulya K N Reddy: A Pioneer Faisal Devji (BR) 4435 Search for Answers at India Social Forum; Takes Leave; Girish Sant and The Untold Betrayal of Sindhi Hindus; Mukul Sharma and Charu Gupta (C) 4937 N Sreekumar (C) 2194 Anand Chandavarkar (D) 4918 SOCIAL REFORMS SEA TRANSPORT SLUMS Debating Reform in Colonial India; From 50 Years Ago (November 10, 1956): ‘Better to Have Died Than to Live Like This’: Gwilym Beckerlegge (BR) 407 Aggressors Must Withdraw (Ed) 4633 Women and Evictions in Delhi; Nationalism and Social Reform; From 50 Years Ago (October 20, 1956): Kalyani Menon-Sen (P) 1969 Neeraj Hatekar (BR) 485 Suez Deadlock (Ed) 4393 I Lost My Children: Making Children A Time for Justice? Life and Times of From Fifty Year Ago (August 4, 1956): Invisible in Demolitions; Radhika Iyengar Agarkar; G P Deshpande (BR) 3412 Suez and Sovernignty (Ed) 3341 (C) 2416 SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH SECONDARY EDUCATION Illegality and the Urban Poor; Bringing Sociology Down to Earth; Education: NCERT Textbooks (Ed) 3628 Usha Ramanathan (P) 3193 N Jayaram (BR) 3005

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Ethics in Social Sciences: Report of a National SOCIAL WORK SPORTS Consultation; SunitaSheel Bandewar; Envisioning ‘Seva’; Carey A Watt (BR) 4958 Hooked on Drugs; Itty Abraham (F) 3639 Akash Acharya; Sudarshan Iyengar; SOCIAL WORKERS Indian Cricket as Synecdoche for Our Times; Biswaroop Das and Ratnawali Sinha (C) 2702 Adieu, Satyaranjan Sathe; Upendra Baxi Vikram Bedi (C) 2520 Riot of Researchers: UGC’s Alternative (C) 3356 Primitive Accumulation and Urban Renewal; Adds to the Chaos; Rajeshwari Deshpande Dr Vinayan; Ashok Choudhary and Itty Abraham (C) 1412 (C) 3561 D Thankappan (LE) 3742 SRI LANKA A Web Library of Research Output; A Time for Justice? Life and Times of Asian Tsunami: Measuring Relief (Ed) 5292 V Srinivasan (C) 312 Agarkar; G P Deshpande (BR) 3412 Being ‘Tamil’: Proceedings of a Conference; Whither the Social Sciences? SOCIALISM V Geetha (C) 3154 Bhupendra Yadav (C) 3845 From 50 Years Ago (January 7, 1956): Conflict and Development in Sri Lanka; SOCIAL SCIENCES Dualism in Congress (Ed) 5 Peter Schalk (BR) 4438 Analysing Current Practices in Geography With or Without Fidel: Future of the Cuban Danger of False Clarities: Scrutiny of Education; Yemuna Sunny (SA) 270 Revolution; Sujatha Fernandes (F) 4007 ‘Terrorism’ in Sri Lanka; Ethics in Social Sciences: Report of a National SOCIALISTS Nira Wickramasinghe (C) 2285 Consultation; SunitaSheel Bandewar; Dr Vinayan; Ashok Choudhary and Dialogue among Ethnic-Nationalists? Akash Acharya; Sudarshan Iyengar; D Thankappan (LE) 3742 Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 2962 Biswaroop Das and Ratnawali Sinha (C) 2702 SOCIOLOGISTS How Promising Is BIMSTEC? The Renaissance Man; G P Deshpande The Indian Sociologist, 1905-14, 1920-22; Nilanjan Banik (SA) 5264 (BR) 2707 A M Shah (SA) 3435 Internationalisation of Sri Lanka’s Peace A Web Library of Research Output; SOCIOLOGY Process and Governance: A Review of V Srinivasan (C) 312 Bringing Sociology Down to Earth; Strategic Conflict Assessments; Cenan SOCIAL SECURITY N Jayaram (BR) 3005 Pirani and Ahilan Kadirgamar (SA) 1789 ‘Invisibility’ Continues? Social Security The Indian Sociologist, 1905-14, 1920-22; Predicament of Political Change; and Unpaid Women Workers; N Neetha A M Shah (SA) 345 Jayadeva Uyangoda (C) 1496 (F) 3497 SOFT DRINK INDUSTRY Sri Lanka: A Ceasefire in Fragments Can the Best Be the Enemy of Good, If the Food Regulation: Missing Standards (Ed) 3552 (Ed) 3449 Good Is Not Good Enough? Kerala’s Plachimada Struggle: A Narrative on Sri Lanka: Barbarism in War; T S Sankaran (F) 3491 Water and Governance Rights; C R Bijoy Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 3748 Evaluating NCEUS Social Security Proposals (F) 4332 Sri Lanka: Not Seeing the Writing; in Light of International Experience; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 4932 Philip O’keefe and Robert Palacios (F) 3483 Benign Neglect or Strategic Intent? State Responses to Displacement; Jayant Gender, Ageing and Social Security; Contested Lineage of Indian Software Sriram (BR) 39 Meena Gopal (SA) 4477 Industry; Pulapre Balakrishnan (SA) 3865 SRIKRISHNA COMMITTEE Government ‘Schedule of Rates’: Working Cross-Country Comparisons of Software Mumbai Crimes: Justice Denied (Ed) 3996 against Rural Labour; P S Vijay Shankar; Growth; M Vijayabaskar (BR) 1345 STATE DOMESTIC PRODUCT Rangu Rao; Nivedita Banerji and Indian Investments Abroad: What Explains Regional Structures, Growth and Mihir Shah (C) 1616 the Boom? R Nagaraj (C) 4716 Convergence of Income in Maharashtra; Is Legislation the Only Solution? Innovation Systems in India’s IT Industry: An Abdul Shaban (SA) 1803 A V Jose (F) 3480 Empirical Investigation; Rey A L Taganas STATE ELECTRICITY BOARDS A Major National Initiative; K P Kannan; and Vijay Kumar Kaul (SA) 4178 Aftershocks of Dabhol Power Project; Ravi Srivastava and Arjun Sengupta (F) 3477 What Does It Take to Become a Software Madhav Godbole and E A S Sarma A Model for Social Security (Ed) 3551 Professional? Anirudh Krishna and (C) 3640 Need to Universalise Social Security; Vijay Brihmadesam (SA) 3307 Political Economy of the Electricity Subsidy: Ravi Duggal (F) 3495 SOIL POLLUTION Evidence from Punjab; Varinder Jain Pension Issue and Challenges Facing India; Integrated Land and Water Use: A Case (SA) 4072 Mukul G Asher (F) 4638 Study of Punjab; A S Bhullar and R S Sidhu STATE FINANCE COMMISSION Policies and Programmes for Employment; (SA) 5353 Redefining the Discourse on Fiscal S Mahendra Dev (P) 1511 SOUTH AFRICA Federalism; Sudipto Mundle (BR) 960 Putting the Cart before a Non-Existent A Death, Barely Noticed; M S Prabhakara STATES REORGANISATION Horse; V M Rao; D Rajasekhar and (C) 4733 Ambedkar and the Linguistic States: Suchitra J Y (F) 3488 Paying the Social Debt; Sukhdeo Thorat A Case for Maharashtra; Asha Sarangi Unorganised Sector Workers’ Social Security (F) 2432 (SA) 151 Bill, 2005: Let Us Not Go Backwards!; Tribute Strini Moodley’s Legacy; STATESMEN Indira Hirway (C) 379 M S Prabhakara (C) 2197 From 50 Years Ago (December 8, 1956): Unorganised Sector Workforce in India: SOUTH INDIA Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Ed) 5021 Trends, Patterns and Social Security Many Threats of a Story; From 50 Years Ago (September 8, 1956): Coverage; S Sakthivel and Pinaki Joddar Seemanthini Niranjana (BR) 5050 Cabinet Reshuffle (Ed) 3829 (SA) 2107 SOVIET UNION STOCK MARKET Unorganised Workers: Deprivation, Social Notes on the Histories of History in the Are You Getting a Good Deal? Overlooked Security Needs, Policy Implications; Soviet Union; Arup Banerji (SA) 826 Cost of Stock Trading; Bidisha Chakrabarty V M Rao; D Rajasekhar and J Y Suchitra SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES and Pankaj K Jain (C) 4720 (SA) 1913 The North-East: Post-Colonial Trauma? Case for Government Direction on SOCIAL SERVICES Hiren Gohain (C) 4537 Interest Rates; EPW Research Foundation Decentralised Childcare Services: The SEWA SEZ Frenzy (Ed) 4095 (MMR) 3632 Experience; Mirai Chatterjee (F) 3660 Special Economic Zones: Revisiting the Current State of the Indian Capital Market; Envisioning ‘Seva’; Carey A Watt (BR) 4958 Policy Debate; Aradhna Aggarwal (C) 4533 R H Patil (SA) 1001

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Financial Liberalisation in India: An Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public Tamil Nadu Lessons for the Future (Ed) 1936 Assessment of Its Nature and Outcomes; Policy: Evidence, Diagnosis and Tamil Nadu More Stars than Ever; Parthapratim Pal and C P Chandrasekhar Alternatives from Punjab; Anita Gill and Rajan Krishnan (C) 2414 (SA) 975 Lakhwinder Singh (SA) 2762 Tamil Nadu New Times Ahead; Governance of Mutual Funds and the Farmers’ Suicides and the Agrarian Crisis; M S S Pandian (C) 2181 Institution of Trustee; G Sethu (F) 1413 A Vaidyanathan (C) 4009 Tamil Nadu: ICDS with a Difference; Indian Stock Market in Comparison; Farmers’ Suicides in Maharashtra; Anuradha Khati Rajivan (F) 3684 Joydeep Biswas (C) 1747 Srijit Mishra (F) 1538 Television in Tamil Nadu Politics; Is Not the Current Growth Cycle Driven by Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and Maya Ranganathan (C) 4947 Bank Credit? EPW Research Foundation Suicides in Punjab; P Satish (SA) 2754 Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: (MMR) 4840 Political Economy of Agrarian Distress; Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; Spectre of Benami Accounts (Ed) 291 K C Suri (F) 1523 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 4261 Stock Market Bears at the Door (Ed) 2176 Relief Package for Farmers: Can It Stop TAMILIANS Stock Market Fall: Managing Volatile Flows; Suicides? A Narayanamoorthy (C) 3353 Dialogue among Ethnic-Nationalists? T T Ram Mohan (C) 2411 Suicide Mortality Rates across States of Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 2962 Stock Market Volatility in the Long Run, India, 1975-2001: A Statistical Note; From ‘Amazonian’ Warrior to Submissive 1961-2005; Madhusudan Karmakar Srijit Mishra (F) 1566 Wife: The Taming of Alli; (SA) 1796 Why Do Farmers Commit Suicide? The Case Vijaya Ramaswamy (SA) 1661 Stock Markets IPO Plot Thickens (Ed) 1824 of Andhra Pradesh; V Sridhar (F) 1559 TAMILS Testing Weak Form Efficiency for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Being ‘Tamil’: Proceedings of a Conference; Indian Stock Markets; Shahid Ashraf; Ecological Embeddedness of the Economy: V Geetha (C) 3154 Shahid Ahmed and Ahmed Khan (SA) 49 A Socioecological Perspective on Modernity and the Tamil Identity; STOCK MARKET REGULATIONS Humanity’s Economic Activities 1700-2000; Kanakalatha Mukund (BR) 3589 Current State of the Indian Capital Market; Helmut Haberl; Fridolin Krausmann and Sri Lanka: A Ceasefire in Fragments R H Patil (SA) 1001 Simone Gingrich (SA) 4896 (Ed) 3449 Governance of Mutual Funds and the Theory and Practice of Agricultural Sri Lanka: Barbarism in War; Institution of Trustee; G Sethu (F) 1413 Indicators; Nilabja Ghosh (BR) 3703 Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 3748 Spectre of Benami Accounts (Ed) 291 Sri Lanka: Not Seeing the Writing; Stock Markets IPO Plot Thickens (Ed) 1824 Faux Pas in Foreign Policy; GPD (C) 1740 Jayadeva Uyangoda (F) 4932 Testing Weak Form Efficiency for Settlements and Disputes: China’s Approach TAX ADMINISTRATION Indian Stock Markets; Shahid Ashraf; to Territorial Issues; Neville Maxwell Rate War, Race to the Bottom and Uniform Shahid Ahmed and Ahmed Khan (SA) 49 (SA) 3873 State VAT Rates: An Empirical Foundation STREET VENDORS TAMIL NADU for a Difficult Policy Issue; Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai; Are Wells a Potential Threat to Farmers’ R Sthanumoorthy (SA) 2460 Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (SA) 2140 Well-being? Case of Deteriorating Tax Efforts and Taxable Capacity of Travails of an Ordinary Citizen: A Tale from Groundwater Irrigation in Tamil Nadu; Central and State Governments; Mumbai; Vidyadhar Date (C) 3473 S Janakarajan and Marcus Moench Mahesh C Purohit (SA) 747 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS (SA) 3977 TAX REFORMS The Strike in SBI: Reflections of a Asian Tsunami: Measuring Relief (Ed) 5292 Budget Making a lâ Chidambaram; Sympathiser of Workers’ Rights; Assembly Elections Changing Dynamics in EPW Research Foundation (SS) 1378 Vinod Vyasulu (C) 1500 Tamil Nadu; V Krishna Ananth (C) 1232 Fiscal and Distributional Implications of STUDENTS Community Panchayats in Fish Marketing; Property Tax Reforms in Indian Cities; Revisiting Dropouts: Old Issues, Fresh K Karunaharan and C Thangamuthu Somik V Lall and Uwe Deichmann Perspectives; Amit Choudhury (SA) 5257 (C) 4860 (SA) 3209 Towards the ‘New Man’: Revolutionary Drought, Agricultural Risk and Rural TAX REVENUES Youth and Rural Agency in the Naxalite Income: Case of a Water Limiting Rice Fiscal Marksmanship: Link between Movement; Rajeshwari Dasgupta (SA) 1920 Production Environment, Tamil Nadu; Forecasting Central Tax Revenues and SUBALTERN STUDIES K N Selvaraj and C Ramasamy (SA) 2739 State Fiscal Management; Pratap R Jena Beyond Blueprints; Bodhisattva Kar Engineering Colleges, ‘Exposure’ and (SA) 3971 (BR) 804 Information Technology Professionals in How Useful Is New Tax Expenditure Muslims and Dalits as Subalterns; Tamil Nadu; C J Fuller and Haripriya Statement? E A S Sarma (C) 1322 Prachi Deshpande (BR) 3701 Narasimhan (SA) 258 Tax Buoyancy Estimates for Indian States; The Subaltern as Subaltern Citizen; Equity, Access and Allocation Conflict in Rajan Goyal; Indira Rajaraman and Gyanendra Pandey (F) 4735 the Bhavani; A Rajagopal and Jeevan Kumar Khundrakpam (SA) 1570 SUDAN N Jayakumar (F) 581 TAXATION Sudan Stumbling towards Peace (Ed) 1936 Gender, Ageing and Social Security; Black Economy, Underestimation of SUICIDES Meena Gopal (SA) 4477 Unemployment and Budget 2005-06; Agrarian Crisis Looking beyond the Debt Making It Relevant: Mapping the Meaning Arun Kumar (SA) 3315 Trap; S Galab and V Ratna Reddy (C) 1838 of Women’s Studies in Tamil Nadu; Budget Proposal: The LPG Dialectic (Ed) 936 Analysis of Farmer Suicides in Kerala; S Anandhi and Padmini Swaminathan Devolution of Net Proceeds of Union Taxes S Mohanakumar and R K Sharma (F) 1553 (SA) 4444 and Duties to States as per Recent Finance Credit, Indebtedness and Farmer Suicides Social Structure, Tax Culture and the State: Commissions’ Recommendations; in Punjab: Some Missing Links; The Case of Tamil Nadu; Amrita Jairaj EPW Research Foundation (CS) 1303 Sukhpal Singh (D) 3330 and Barbara Harriss-White (SA) 5247 Fiscal Marksmanship: Link between Dimensions of Agrarian Distress in Sustainable Development of Small Water Forecasting Central Tax Revenues and Andhra Pradesh; P Narasimha Rao Bodies in Tamil Nadu; State Fiscal Management; Pratap R Jena and K C Suri (F) 1546 K Sivasubramaniyan (SA) 2854 (SA) 3971

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Fringe Benefits Tax: Lessons from Attack on Parliament: Last Chance to TIBET Australia and New Zealand; Know What Really Happened; India-China Border Dispute: Centrality of Rajalaxmi Kamath (C) 115 Nirmalangshu Mukherji (C) 4236 Tibet; Arijit Mazumdar (C) 4324 From 50 Years Ago (December 15, 1956): Bangladesh Troubled Future; Sarmila Bose TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY The Kaldor Report (Ed) 5097 (BR) 806 More Light on a Miracle; J C Sandesara From 50 Years Ago (March 3, 1956): Bush’s War on Terror; A V Rajwade (C) 4863 (BR) 4123 Deshmukh and Direct Taxes (Ed) 770 Conflict and Development in Sri Lanka; Productivity Growth in Regional Rural Rate War, Race to the Bottom and Uniform Peter Schalk (BR) 4438 Banks; A Amarender Reddy (F) 1079 State VAT Rates: An Empirical Foundation Danger of False Clarities: Scrutiny of Productivity in Indian Chemical Sector: for a Difficult Policy Issue; ‘Terrorism’ in Sri Lanka; An Intra-Sectoral Analysis; Sthanumoorthy (SA) 2460 Nira Wickramasinghe (C) 2285 T Sampath Kumar (SA) 4148 Social Structure, Tax Culture and the State: Emerging Political Equations in Nepal; TOURISM INDUSTRY The Case of Tamil Nadu; Amrita Jairaj and Muchkund Dubey (C) 4414 Roots and the Route of Secularism Barbara Harriss-White (SA) 5247 Havana Statement: New Mechanism in Sikkim; Vibha Arora (SA) 4063 Tax Efforts and Taxable Capacity of for Peace (Ed) 4096 Tourism Processes and Gender Relations: Central and State Governments; Hour of the Assassins; Sumanta Banerjee Issues for Exploration and Intervention; Mahesh C Purohit (SA) 747 (P) 4329 Indra Munshi (SA) 4461 Towards GST Choices and Trade-offs; Liquid Bomb Hoax: Larger Implications; Tyranny of Distance: State of Economy of Amaresh Bagchi (C) 1314 James Petras (C) 3850 Lakshadweep; P D Jeromi (C) 3291 Which Way for Indirect Taxes? Mohammed Afzal’s Hanging; TOWN AND URBAN PLANNING Sukumar Mukhopadhyay (C) 1324 Deepika Tandon (LE) 4094 Condoning Unplanned Development: TEACHERS More Questions than Answers; Reviewing the Khanna Committee Report; Satyaranjan Sathe; Upendra Baxi (LE) 3736 Madhav Godbole (BR) 4667 Ashok Kumar (C) 4105 TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT Mumbai Bomb Blasts – I: Denial of Delhi: Regulating a City (Ed) 4097 The Contradictory Spaces of Postcolonial Constitutional Rights; Jyoti Punwani Disconnecting Experience: Making Techno-Science; Itty Abraham (SA) 210 (C) 3841 World-class Roads in Mumbai; TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY Mumbai Bomb Blasts – II: When ‘Terror’ Nikhil Anand (SA) 3422 Maran’s OneIndia Plan: Attacking Rural Talk Crushes Human Rights; In the City, Out of Place: Environment and Telephony the Wrong Way; A Correspondent (C) 3843 Modernity, Delhi 1860s to 1960s; Prabir Purkayastha (C) 861 Mumbai Crimes: Justice Denied (Ed) 3996 Awadhendra Sharan (SA) 4905 Rural Tele-density; T H Chowdary (C) 393 Official Truth as Judicial Truth, via the Myopic Development (Ed) 1147 Telecom: Tariffs and Rural Telephony (Ed) 845 Media; Subhendu Dasgupta (BR) 3206 On Repealing the Urban Land Ceiling Act; Telecom: 3G Face-offs (Ed) 5020 Open Letter to President on Mohammed Simpreet Singh (C) 698 Telecom: Spectrum Woes (Ed) 3628 Afzal; Nirmala Deshpande; Surendra Travails of an Ordinary Citizen: A Tale TELECOMMUNICATIONS Mohan; Gautam Navlakha; Tripta Wahi; from Mumbai; Vidyadhar Date (C) 3473 Rural Tele-density; T H Chowdary (C) 393 Ali Javed; Sunil and Arjun Singh (LE) 4390 Working of the BATF; Asha Ghosh (D) 1376 Telecom: 3G Face-offs (Ed) 5020 People’s Resilience; K N Raj (LE) 3130 TRADE AGREEMENTS Telecom: Spectrum Woes (Ed) 3628 Political Context of Mumbai Bomb Blasts; Endgame on Doha? (Ed) 2691 Telecommunications and Growth: Causal P A Sebastian (C) 3750 Negotiations Adrift (Ed) 2043 Model, Quantitative and Qualitative Prejudice in the Cause of Security (Ed) 3743 SAFTA: Uncertain Gains (Ed) 4 Evidence; Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Rajouri: Seeds of a Silent Revolution; SAFTA: Myth of Free Trade; Varadharajan Sridhar (SA) 2611 D Suba Chandran (C) 2979 Dushni Weerakoon and TELEVISION Terror Revisits (Ed) 2951 Jayanthi Thennakoon (C) 3920 The Constitution and Journalists’ Sources; Terrorism in the North-East: Linkages and Trade Treaties and US Hegemony A G Noorani (CL) 2964 Implications; Archana Upadhyay (SA) 4993 in the Americas; Sujatha Fernandes Economic Man, the Fourth Estate and Terrorism: A Town in Maharashtra (Ed) 3912 (C) 1954 CPI(M) in Kerala; K T Rammohan (C) 3649 Unequal Compensation to Victims; TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT Media Covering Parliament; Iqbal A Ansari (LE) 3994 Domestic Terms of Trade in a Three-Sector Vinod Chowdhury (LE) 4920 TEXTILE INDUSTRY Framework: Analysis for All-India and The Media: Politics, Ethics and the Law; Many Threats of a Story; States; Surajit Deb (SA) 1713 A G Noorani (BR) 483 Seemanthini Niranjana (BR) 5050 How Promising Is BIMSTEC? Official Truth as Judicial Truth, via the Myopic Development (Ed) 1147 Nilanjan Banik (SA) 5264 Media; Subhendu Dasgupta (BR) 3206 Issues on in Environmental Goods and Television in Tamil Nadu Politics; Access to Healthcare for All: What Can We Services; Archana S Mathur and Maya Ranganathan (C) 4947 Learn from the AIDS Movement? Pradeep Kr Guin (SA) 4675 TENANCY Anand Zachariah (C) 2522 Movements in the Exchange Rate: Trends in Lease Farming in Kerala: Findings from How Promising Is BIMSTEC? New Indices of Nominal and Effective Micro Level Studies; K N Nair and Nilanjan Banik (SA) 5264 Rates; EPW Research Foundation Vineetha Menon (SA) 2732 Thai Coup in Hot Soup; Satya Sagar (C) 4544 (MMR) 178 Liberalising the Lease Market; THEATRE Para 6 of WTO Doha Declaration: H R Sharma (C) 696 ‘Moving beyond Themselves’: Women in Non-Solution of TRIPS Problem; TERMS OF TRADE Hindustani Parsi Theatre and C Niranjan Rao (C) 301 Domestic Terms of Trade in a Three-Sector Early Hindi Films; Mrinal Pande (SA) 1646 Special Economic Zones Unnecessary Framework: Analysis for All-India and Ritual Enactments in a Hindi ‘Mythological’: Giveaways (Ed) 1300 States; Surajit Deb (SA) 1713 Betab’s Mahabharat in Parsi Theatre; Tribute Hans Singer (1910-2006): TERRORISM Kathryn Hansen (SA) 4985 Doyen of Development Economics; Assam Terror and Talks (Ed) 2508 The Show Must Go On; Bela Malik (C) 3926 Rameshwar Tandon (C) 1176

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TRADE LIBERALISATION TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT Tribal Identities; M S Prabhakara (LE) 766 Organic Cotton Supply Chains and Small Empowering Soliga Tribes: ‘Sudarshan Tribal Land Alienation in Andhra Pradesh: Producers: Governance, Participation and Model’ of Karnataka; Ashish Bose (C) 564 Processes, Impacts and Policy Concerns; Strategies; Sukhpal Singh (SA) 5359 Sudarshan Model; Manu N Kulkarni (LE) 842 S Laxman Rao; Priya Deshingkar and Rules for Fair Trade; Dev Nathan (BR) 1893 Tribal Land Alienation in Andhra Pradesh: John Farrington (SA) 5401 Trade Liberalisation and Environmental Processes, Impacts and Policy Concerns; Tribes in Gender Studies; Jayabrata Sarkar Protection: Responses of Leather Industry S Laxman Rao; Priya Deshingkar and (BR) 3205 in Brazil, China and India; U Sankar John Farrington (SA) 5401 TRIPS (SA) 2470 TRIBAL LANDS Data Exclusivity in Pharmaceuticals: TRADE POLICY Acknowledgement; Seema Purushothaman Little Basis, False Claims; Biswajit Dhar Policy Space in Historical Perspective with (LE) 168 and K M Gopakumar (SA) 5073 Special Reference to Trade and Industrial Forest Bill 2005 and Tribal Areas: Case of Drug Firms vs Public Health (Ed) 5291 Policies; Ha-Joon Chang (SA) 627 Jharkhand; Ritambhara Hebbar (F) 4952 No Pills for Poor People? Understanding the Sustaining Agricultural Trade: Policy and Orissa Ongoing Brutality (Ed) 84 Disembowelment of India’s Patent Regime; Impact; Dhanmanjiri Sathe and Tribal Land Alienation in Andhra Pradesh: Dwijen Rangnekar (SA) 409 R S Deshpande (SA) 5337 Processes, Impacts and Policy Concerns; Para 6 of WTO Doha Declaration: TRADE UNIONS S Laxman Rao; Priya Deshingkar and Non-Solution of TRIPS Problem; Changing Labour Institutions; John Farrington (SA) 5401 C Niranjan Rao (C) 301 K R Shyam Sundar (BR) 204 TRIBALS Patents and Pharmaceuticals in India; Economic Man, the Fourth Estate and The Adivasi, the State and the Naxalite: Case C Niranjan Rao (BR) 1975 CPI(M) in Kerala; K T Rammohan (C) 3649 of Andhra Pradesh; E A S Sarma (F) 1434 UDAIPUR Harsh Reality of Workers Today; Chhattisgarh Physiognomy of Violence; Financial Status of Rural Poor: A Study in Vidyadhar Date (C) 1169 K Balagopal (C) 2183 Udaipur District; M S Sriram and Power of the People: Political Mobilisation Draft National Tribal Policy of 2006: Smita Parhi (SA) 5269 and Guaranteed Employment; Creating Consternation; B K Roy Burman ULFA Shaji Joseph (F) 5149 (C) 3645 Assam ‘Talking about Talks’; M S Prabhakara Why Unions Fail in Organising India’s Empowering Soliga Tribes: ‘Sudarshan (C) 777 BPO-ITES Industry; Amandeep Sandhu Model’ of Karnataka; Ashish Bose (C) 564 Assam Identity as Strategy (Ed) 1492 (C) 4319 Endemic to Development: Police Killings in Assam New Equations and Uneasy Alliances; TRAI Kalinga Nagar; Ranjana Padhi and Udayon Misra (C) 2291 Maran’s OneIndia Plan: Attacking Rural Nagraj Adve (C) 186 Assam Terror and Talks (Ed) 2508 Telephony the Wrong Way; Food Insecurity in Gujarat: A Study of Two Hour of the Assassins; Sumanta Banerjee Prabir Purkayastha (C) 861 Rural Populations; Sujoy Chakravarty and (P) 4329 Rural Tele-density; T H Chowdary (C) 393 Sejal A Dand (SA) 2248 UNCTAD Telecom Tariffs and Rural Telephony Forest Bill 2005 and Tribal Areas: Case of New (TNC) Kids on the Block (Ed) 4391 (Ed) 845 Jharkhand; Ritambhara Hebbar (F) 4952 UNEMPLOYMENT TELECOM: Spectrum Woes (Ed) 3628 Kerala’s Plachimada Struggle: Black Economy, Underestimation of TRANSPORTATION A Narrative on Water and Governance Unemployment and Budget 2005-06; Advantages of Bus Rapid Transit Systems; Rights; C R Bijoy (F) 4332 Arun Kumar (SA) 3315 Shirish B Patel (D) 2035 Mathematics and Tribal Children; Employment and Poverty in India During City Transport in India: Impending Disaster; Minati Panda (C) 117 the 1990s: Is there a Diverging Trend? Siddhartha Mitra (C) 473 Nature of Opposition to the Polavaram Sanjay K Hansda and Partha Ray (SA) 3014 Standard Gauge or Broad Gauge? Project; Palla Trinadha Rao (F) 1437 Employment Position in India as Per NSS Revisiting the Metro Rail Debate; Non-Scheduled Tribes; Ranjit Sau (LE) 3550 61st Round Survey (2004-05); EPW M Ravibabu (C) 4248 Open Letters to Government and Maoists Research Foundation (CS) 4839 Urban Transport in Mumbai: Two Choices (C) 2977 Policies and Programmes for Employment; for the Future; Sudhir P Badami (C) 4724 People’s Movement at Kalinga Nagar: An S Mahendra Dev (P) 1511 Urban Transport Policy Ensuring Equity Epitaph or an Epitome? Banikanta Mishra UNESCO (Ed) 1492 (C) 551 UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention; Viability of Surface Rail for Urban Mass Politics of Pro-poor Reforming the Health Krishna Ravi Srinivas (C) 868 Transit; M Ravibabu (C) 1506 Sector: Primary Healthcare in Tribal UNICEF TREASURY BONDS Areas of Visakhapatnam; M Gopinath Child Labour: What Happened to the Worst Blurring of Development Goals in Reddy; K Jayalakshmi and Forms? G K Lieten (C) 103 Refinancing; EPW Research Foundation Anne-Marie Goetz (SA) 419 Child Survival Programmes Revisited; (MMR) 1154 Power of the People: Political Mobilisation Manu N Kulkarni (C) 28 Can Primary Dealers Replace RBI in and Guaranteed Employment; Security Issues? EPW Research Foundation Shaji Joseph (F) 5149 Audit Reports on Disinvestment; (MMR) 1604 Redeeming the Silence; Rudolf C Heredia B P Mathur (F) 5114 Dear Money Policy, Rising Yields and High (BR) 4437 Britain: The Party that Blair Built (Ed) 4228 Interest Costs; EPW Research Foundation Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Experiencing Islam, British Style; Kurt (MMR) 3268 Rights) Bill: A View from Anthropology Jacobsen and Sayeed Hasan Khan (C) 395 Financial Inclusion in a Deregulated Regime; and Call for Dialogue; Arnab Sen and Trade and Empire Building; Lakshmi Clearing Corporation of India Limited Esther Lalhrietpui (SA) 4205 Subramanian (BR) 1447 (MMR) 1940 Scheduled Tribes Bill: For Whom and For UNITED NATIONS Pitfalls of Synchronisation with Global What? Ranjit Sau (D) 5009 Deja vu of ‘Hunger amidst Plenty’ (Ed) 4227 Policy Trends; EPW Research Foundation Sudarshan Model; Manu N Kulkarni (LE) 842 Form 50 Years Ago (December 22, 1956): (MMR) 2404 Tribal Demography; Arjan de Haan (BR) 327 Washington and Neutrals (Ed) 5293

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From 50 Years Ago (November 17, 1956): Nature of the Zionist Beast: Lebanon, Satyaranjan Sathe; Upendra Baxi (LE) 3736 Bandung Way to Peace (Ed) 4713 Palestine and Israel’s Scorched Earth Terror at the Academy’s Gate; Vinay Lal HIV/AIDS: Spreading Scourge (Ed) 3132 Policy; Gabriela Becker (C) 3653 (F) 3139 Human Development: India’s Poor Record Nuclear Deal and Energy Security; Undergraduate versus Postgraduate (Ed) 4928 Ardhendu Sen (LE) 1490 Education; Amrik Singh (P) 2450 Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge; Nuclear North Korea (Ed) 4303 Universities and Higher Education; Ramesh Thakur (P) 3297 On America’s Bandstand; Itty Abraham Manu N Kulkarni (LE) 3332 Role of Women in the UN; Chitra Sinha (C) 2287 UNTOUCHABLES (BR) 3952 Outsourcing the American Dream? The Time of the Dalit Conversion; Selecting the Next UN Secretary General; Representing the Stakes of IT Gyanendra Pandey (SA) 1779 Ramesh Thakur (C) 3939 Globalisation; Mobina Hashmi (SA) 242 Voices on Untouchability; State Responses to Displacement; Price of the Nuclear Deal; T Jayaraman Vijaya Ramaswamy (BR) 2708 Jayant Sriram (BR) 39 (C) 1418 UPA GOVERNMENT Who Speaks for the Governed? World Primitive Accumulation and Urban Renewal; NDA and UPA Budgets: Continuity or Summit on Information Society, Civil Itty Abraham (C) 1412 Change? Mala Lalvani (C) 1318 Society and the Limits of South Asia Needs a Bomb-Less Deal; URBAN TRANSPORT `Multistakeholderism’; Paula Chakravartty Pervez Hoodbhoy (C) 1410 Urban Transport in Mumbai: Two Choices (SA) 250 Sweet Reasonableness (Ed) 2399 for the Future; Sudhir P Badami (C) 4724 World Economy, Geopolitics and Global Terror at the Academy’s Gate; Vinay Lal Urban Transport Policy Ensuring Equity Strategy: Indo-US Relations in the 21st (F) 3139 (Ed) 1492 Century; Arvind Virmani (SA) 4601 Torture and War on Terror; Itty Abraham URBANISATION UNITED STATES (F) 4102 Condoning Unplanned Development: ‘Holy Grail’ of Giant Pharma; C R Sridhar Trade Treaties and US Hegemony in the Reviewing the Khanna Committee Report; (C) 952 Americas; Sujatha Fernandes (C) 1954 Ashok Kumar (C) 4105 America, Iran and the Nuclear Option; Undocumented Workers in the US; Crime and Punishment; Zia Mian (C) 1738 Sharat G Lin (F) 4867 Chinmay Chakrabarty (BR) 5119 Bush Visit Illusion of a Bargain (Ed) 844 United States Of Ports and Patriotism Delhi: Regulating a City (Ed) 4097 Bush’s War; Zia Mian (C) 1161 (Ed) 936 Diversification towards High Value Bush’s War on Terror; A V Rajwade (C) 4863 US: Mid-term Lessons (Ed) 4712 Agriculture: Role of Urbanisation and Choosing War, Confronting Defeat; Whither Nuclear Power? Anshu Bharadwaj; Infrastructure; P K Joshi; P Parthasarathy Zia Mian (F) 4234 Rahul Tongia and V S Arunachalam Rao and P S Birthal (SA) 2747 The Constitution and Journalists’ Sources; (SA) 1203 In the City, Out of Place: Environment and A G Noorani (CL) 2964 UNITED STATES-IRAN RELATIONS Modernity, Delhi 1860s to 1960s; Controlling the Bomb; Zia Mian (C) 464 America, Iran and the Nuclear Option; Awadhendra Sharan (SA) 4905 Data Exclusivity in Pharmaceuticals: Zia Mian (C) 1738 Indian Industry: Aftermath of Reforms; Little Basis, False Claims; Biswajit Dhar Iran Affair US Machinations (Ed) 452 J C Sandesara (BR) 800 and K M Gopakumar (SA) 5073 The Iran Issue; Achin Vanaik (C) 467 Making of a City; Sharit K Bhowmik The Dead in Iraq and the War of Numbers; Iran, US and the Drumbeats of War; (BR) 3506 Vinay Lal (F) 5028 Sukumar Muralidharan (C) 1619 Municipal Bond Market for Financing Urban Faux Pas in Foreign Policy; GPD (C) 1740 UNITED STATES-IRAQ RELATIONS Infrastructure; Soumyadip Chattopadhyay Fences and Xenophobes; Vinay Lal (C) 1498 Bush’s War on Terror; A V Rajwade (C) 4863 (SA) 2787 Filipinos in the US; Itty Abraham (C) 674 Choosing War, Confronting Defeat; Myopic Development (Ed) 1147 Hooked on Drugs; Itty Abraham (F) 3639 Zia Mian (F) 4234 NURM and the Poor in Globalising Mega How Americans See the US; Zia Mian (C) 12 The Dead in Iraq and the War of Numbers; Cities; Darshini Mahadevia (P) 3399 Indo-US Knowledge Initiative: Need for Vinay Lal (F) 5028 Primitive Accumulation and Urban Renewal; Public Debate; Rajeswari S Raina (C) 1622 Death Sentence to Saddam Hussein; Itty Abraham (C) 1412 Indo-US Nuclear Accord Implications for P A Sebastian (C) 5311 Representation and Development in Urban Peace and Security in South Asia; Iraqi Resistance Gets a Breather; Peripheries: Reflections on Governance T Jayaraman (C) 1167 K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 2705 in Ahmedabad Suburbs; Indrajit Roy Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Unprincipled Torture and War on Terror; Itty Abraham (SA) 4363 Positions (Ed) 536 (F) 4102 Ritual and Urbanism; Sharad Chari Iran, US and the Drumbeats of War; UNITED STATES-ISRAEL RELATIONS (BR) 3508 Sukumar Muralidharan (C) 1619 America and the Israel Lobby (C) 3651 Travails of an Ordinary Citizen: A Tale from Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge; UNIVERSITIES Mumbai; Vidyadhar Date (C) 3473 Ramesh Thakur (P) 3297 Distorting the Reality of Aligarh Muslim Urban Transport in Mumbai: Two Choices Iraqi Resistance Gets a Breather; University; Iqbal Ansari (C) 101 for the Future; Sudhir P Badami (C) 4724 K S Dakshina Murthy (C) 2705 Is Gender Easy to Study? Some Reflections; UTTAR PRADESH Israel’s Failure in Lebanon; Sukumar Maithreyi Krishnaraj (SA) 4440 Bahujan Samaj Party: Kanshi Ram’s Legacy Muralidharan (C) 4018 Making It Relevant: Mapping the Meaning (Ed) 4304 Journey from Pokhran-II to Hyde Act; of Women’s Studies in Tamil Nadu; Do Parents Spread Educational Expenditure T Jayaraman (C) 5216 S Anandhi and Padmini Swaminathan Evenly across the Two Genders? Evidence The Making of US Foreign Policy for South (SA) 4444 from Two North Indian States; Kausik Asia: Offshore Balancing in Historical NET, Researchers and Teachers; Chaudhuri and Susmita Roy (SA) 5276 Perspective; Lioyd I Rudolph and Susanne Sonal Bhatt (LE) 3826 Government, Industry and Farmland; Hoeber Rudolph (P) 703 Riot of Researchers: UGC’s Alternative Satya Sivaraman; Ravindra Garia; Meditation on Haditha; Kurt Jacobsen and Adds to the Chaos; Rajeshwari Deshpande Kapil Sharma; Radhika Menon and Sayeed Hasan Khan (C) 3849 (C) 3561 Azim Sherwani (LE) 3446

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Memories, Saffronising Statues and Executive Compensation, Firm Performance Conflicts over International Waters; Constructing Communal Politics; and Governance: An Empirical Analysis; Rakesh Tiwary (F) 1684 Badri Narayan (SA) 4695 Aditya Parthasarathy; Krishnakumar Conserving a Precious Resource (Ed) 3447 Municipal Elections in Uttar Pradesh; Menon and Debashish Bhattacherjee Contending Water Uses: Biodiversity vs A K Verma (C) 5218 (SA) 4139 Irrigation: Case of Keoladeo National Park; POTA and the Case of Raja Bhaiya; Government ‘Schedule of Rates’: Working Malavika Chauhan (F) 575 Ujjwal Kumar Singh (C) 19 against Rural Labour; P S Vijay Shankar; Contending Water Uses: Social Uttar Pradesh: Congress Illusion (Ed) 3744 Rangu Rao; Nivedita Banerji and Undercurrents in a Water-Scarce Village; Uttar Pradesh: Formation of Muslim Mihir Shah (C) 1616 R K Sama and Anjal Prakash (F) 577 Political Fronts; A K Verma (C) 4241 WARS AND WARFARE Environmental Impact of Inter-Basin Water Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: Bangladesh War of 1971: A Prescription for Transfer Projects: Some Evidence from Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu; Reconciliation? Nayanika Mookherjee Canada; Deepak Kumar Das (F) 1703 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 4261 (D) 3901 Equity, Access and Allocation Conflict in the VALUE ADDED TAX Bush’s War; Zia Mian (C) 1161 Bhavani; A Rajagopal and N Jayakumar Black Economy, Underestimation of The Dead in Iraq and the War of Numbers; (F) 581 Unemployment and Budget 2005-06; Vinay Lal (F) 5028 Getting the Implementation Right: Can the Arun Kumar (SA) 3315 India-China Border War; A K Dasgupta Proposed Watershed Guidelines Help? Budget Proposal The LPG Dialectic (Ed) 936 (LE) 4834 V Ratna Reddy (D) 4292 Rate War, Race to the Bottom and Uniform Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge; Half-hearted Attention to Agriculture; State VAT Rates: An Empirical Foundation Ramesh Thakur (P) 3297 S Mahendra Dev (C) 1327 for a Difficult Policy Issue; WASTE DISPOSAL Integrated Water Resource Management: R Sthanumoorthy (SA) 2460 Peri-Urban Agriculture and Aquaculture; A Response; V S Saravanan (D) 4086 Towards GST Choices and Trade-offs; Rahul Gupta and Sumita Gupta IRLP or the Ecological Approach to Rivers? Amaresh Bagchi (C) 1314 Gangopadhyay (C) 1757 Nazrul Islam (F) 1693 Which Way for Indirect Taxes? Public, Private and Voluntary Agencies in Is India Ripe for Integrated Water Resources Sukumar Mukhopadhyay (C) 1324 Solid Waste Management: A Study in Management? Fitting water policy to VEDAS Chennai City; Krithika Srinivasan national development context; Tushaar In Defence of Secularism; (SA) 2259 Shah and Barbara van Koppen (SA) 3413 Kunal Chattopadhyay (BR) 405 WASTELANDS Micro-Level Disputes Traditional Water VEGETABLES Gujarat Quiet Transfer of Commons; Vinay Harvesting Structure: Community behind Cross-Validation of Production and Mahajan and Charul Bharwada (C) 313 ‘Community’; Prakash Kashwan (F) 596 Consumption Data of Fruits and WATER CRISIS Micro-Level Disputes Gravity Dam in Vegetables; Jatinder S Bedi (SA) 5345 Equity, Access and Allocation Conflict in the Trouble: Forest Officials Who Missed the VENEZUELA Bhavani; A Rajagopal and N Jayakumar Wood for the Trees; Chandan Sinha and Community Radio in Venezuela; (F) 581 Nandita Singh (F) 594 Sujatha Fernandes (C) 317 WATER HARVESTING Mild towards Government, Harsh towards Latin America: A ‘Red Tide’? (Ed) 5096 Micro-Level Disputes Traditional Water NGOs; Ramaswamy R Iyer (BR) 715 Making the Impossible Possible; Harvesting Structure: Community behind Privatisation In Chhattisgarh, a River Rahul Varman (BR) 3407 ‘Community’; Prakash Kashwan (F) 596 Becomes Private Property; Binayak Das Trade Treaties and US Hegemony in the Upstream vs Downstream: Groundwater and Ganesh Pangare (F) 611 Americas; Sujatha Fernandes (C) 1954 Management and Rainwater Harvesting; Reforms for Watersheds; Mihir Shah (D) 5086 Way Forward for Left in Latin America? Sunil Ray and Mahendra Bijarnia (SA) 2375 Story of a Hiss: Water Scarcity and the Need Sujatha Fernandes (F) 3344 WATER POLLUTION for Reform; N Vijay Jagannathan (D) 925 VIDARBHA Bhopal Gas Tragedy: ‘New’ Victims; Sustainable Development of Small Water Relief Package for Farmers: Can It Stop Betwa Sharma (C) 1613 Bodies in Tamil Nadu; K Sivasubramaniyan Suicides? A Narayanamoorthy (C) 3353 Water Quality Bridging the Ganga Action (SA) 2854 VIETNAM Plan: Monitoring Failure at Kanpur; Upstream vs Downstream: Groundwater Settlements and Disputes: China’s Approach to Praveen Singh (F) 590 Management and Rainwater Harvesting; Territorial Issues; Neville Maxwell (SA) 3873 Water Quality Pollution through Aqua Sunil Ray and Mahendra Bijarnia (SA) 2375 VIOLENCE Culture: Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary; Water Resource Management: Some Atrocities on Dalits: What the District Level J Rama Rao; Jasveen Jairath and Comments; Ramaswamy R Iyer (D) 4623 Data Say on Society-State Complicity; P Umesh (F) 585 WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT Debashis Chakraborty; D Shyam Babu Water Quality Unclogging the Khari River: Broadening the Scope of Watershed and Manashi Chakravorty (SA) 2478 Stakeholders Come Together to Halt Development; Deepa Joshi (F) 2987 Kherlanji: Caste Violence (Ed) 4632 Pollution; Srinivas Mudrakartha; Jatin Equity in Watershed Development: A Case VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Sheth and J Srinath (F) 587 Study in Western Maharashtra; Manipur: Mockery of Law (Ed) 4392 WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Priya Sangameswaran (SA) 2157 Pakistan: Reforming the Hudood (Ed) 4836 ‘Million Revolts’ in the Making; Getting the Implementation Right: Can the WAGES Biksham Gujja; K J Joy; Suhas Paranjape; Proposed Watershed Guidelines Help? Contract Labour in Karnataka: Emerging Vinod Goud and Shruti Vispute (F) 570 V Ratna Reddy (D) 4292 Issues and Options; Meenakshi Rajeev Are Wells a Potential Threat to Farmers’ Issues in Restructuring; Amita Shah; (SA) 2086 Well-being? Case of Deteriorating Sharachchandra Lele; Shrinivas Badiger; Economic Growth, Labour Markets and Groundwater Irrigation in Tamil Nadu; K J Joy and Subhash Paranjape (F) 2994 Gender in Japan; Uma Rani (SA) 4369 S Janakarajan and Marcus Moench The Making of Moral Authority: Anna Employment and Poverty in India During the (SA) 3977 Hazare and Watershed Management 1990s: Is there a Diverging Trend? The Bank Comes Full Circle; Mihir Shah Programme in Ralegan Siddhi; Sanjay K Hansda and Partha Ray (SA) 3014 (BR) 2201 Mukul Sharma (SA) 1981

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Measuring the Marginal Value of Water and Wheat Back to Imports? (Ed) 1600 Gender, Ageing and Social Security; Elasticity of Demand for Water in Wheat Imports: Food Security or Politics? Meena Gopal (SA) 4477 Agriculture; E Somanathan and M Raghavan (C) 2057 Gender, Caste and Fiction: A Bahujan R Ravindranath (SA) 2712 WHO Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali; Need to Flesh Out Proposals; Child Survival Programmes Revisited; Ajay Sekher (C) 4422 Ashesh Ambasta (F) 2991 Manu N Kulkarni (C) 28 Gendering Oral History of Partition: Reforms for Watersheds; Mihir Shah A Review of Health and Economics; Interrogating Patriarchy; (D) 5086 D Narayana (BR) 962 Anjali Bhardwaj Datta (F) 2229 Reinvigorating Watershed Development WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX Guaranteed Employment and Gender (Ed) 2175 Trends in Wholesale Price Index (Base 1993- Construction: Women’s Mobilisation in Restructuring Watershed Development 94 = 100) Point-to-Point Variation and Maharashtra; Anurekha Chari (F) 5141 Programmes; A Vaidyanathan (F) 2984 Annual Rate of Increase during 1995-96 to Housewife, Sex Worker and Reformer: Towards Reforms; Mihir Shah (F) 2981 2005-06 and 1995-96 to 2000-01; EPW Controversies over Women Writing Their WEST ASIA Research Foundation (CS) 1603 Lives in Kerala; J Devika (SA) 1675 Death Sentence to Saddam Hussein; WILDLIFE Human Trafficking Convicting the Victims P A Sebastian (C) 5311 Debating Conservation; Stig Toft Madsen (Ed) 172 WEST BENGAL (BR) 1347 Identity across Boundaries; Karen Leonard The ‘Other’ Tragedy (Ed) 5019 Exclusion in Madhav National Park: Is Policy (BR) 1630 ‘Rent a State’ Economics; AM (LE) 766 Change Required? Kim Beazley (SA) 4684 A Life in the Limelight; Antoinette Burton Assembly Polls 2006 Elections, Jatra Style, Human-Related Constraints in Protected (BR) 4875 in West Bengal; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 864 Area Management: Manifestations and Literacy and Education; Churning of the Social Base (Ed) 1935 Causatives; V Anitha; A S Binilkumar Vimala Ramachandran (C) 4853 Elections and the Bureaucracy in West and P K Muraleedharan (SA) 919 Making Space for Feminist Social Critique in Bengal; D Bandyopadhyay (C) 1417 Mangrove Conservation Efforts and the Contemporary Kerala; J Devika and Electronic Waste Need for Comprehensive Local Economy: A Case Study; Mini Sukumar (SA) 4469 Solutions (Ed) 2400 Rajarshi Mitra; Rabindra N Bhattacharya; Manto’s Open It: Engendering Partition Fencing over Singur (Ed) 5203 Sugata Hazra and S C Santra (SA) 3612 Narratives; Shreey Chand (C) 308 From 50 Years Ago (September 15, 1956): Whither ‘Community-Based’ Conservation? On Funding and the NGO Sector; Profile of West Bengal (Ed) 3913 Chetan Kumar (P) 5313 Nilanjana Biswas (C) 4406 Land Struggle in Singur; Arup Kumar Sen Wildlife Protection: Reintroduction and Recovering a Tradition: Forgotten Women’s (LE) 3994 Relocation; Asmita Kabra (C) 1309 Voices; Eunice De’souza (SA) 1642 Left Front’s 2006 Victory in West Bengal: WOMEN Role of Women in the UN; Chitra Sinha Continuity or a Trendsetter? ‘Invisibility’ Continues? Social Security (BR) 3952 Bidyut Chakrabarty (SA) 3521 and Unpaid Women Workers; Sacred Spaces, Secular Norms and Left Front’s Electoral Victory in West Bengal: N Neetha (F) 3497 Women’s Rights; Kavita Krishnan (C) 2969 An Ethnographer’s Account; Dayabati Roy ‘Moving beyond Themselves’: Women in Towards the ‘New Man’: Revolutionary Youth and Parhta Sarathi Banerjee (F) 4251 Hindustani Parsi Theatre and Early and Rural Agency in the Naxalite Micro-Level Disputes Gravity Dam in Hindi Films; Mrinal Pande (SA) 1646 Movement; Rajeshwari Dasgupta (SA) 1920 Trouble: Forest Officials Who Missed the Child Malnutrition and Gender Tribes in Gender Studies; Wood for the Trees; Chandan Sinha and Discrimination in South Asia; Jayabrata Sarkar (BR) 3205 Nandita Singh (F) 594 Santosh Mehrotra (SA) 912 Where Is Gender in Eleventh Plan Approach Peasant Hares and Capitalist Hounds of Daughters of Mother India in Search of a Paper? Indira Hirway (C) 3464 Singur; Sumanta Banerjee (C) 5296 Nation: Women’s Narratives about the Where Women Prevail: 2001 Census and Political Economy of West Bengal: A Puzzle Nation; Jasbir Jain (SA) 1654 Female Heads of Households; and a Hypothesis; Abhirup Sarkar (SA) 341 Decentralised Childcare Services: Ashish Bose (C) 2192 Primary Education: Debating Quality and The SEWA Experience; Mirai Chatterjee Women’s Protests in Singur; Members Khonj Quantity; Manabi Majumdar (C) 785 (F) 3660 Ekhon Porishod (LE) 5290 A Rejoinder to ‘Rent-a-Womb Economics’; A Difficult Match: Women’s Actions and Women’s Studies in China Today; Suhas Chattopadhyay (D) 526 Legal Institutions in the Face of Domestic Ravni Thakur (SA) 4455 Suffrage in West Bengal; AM (C) 2048 Violence; A Suneetha and Vasudha Nagaraj WOMEN AND CHILD HEALTH Towards the ‘New Man’: Revolutionary Youth (SA) 4355 Access to Nutritious Meal Programmes: and Rural Agency in the Naxalite Economic Growth, Labour Markets and Evidence from 1999-2000 NSS Data; Movement; Rajeshwari Dasgupta (SA) 1920 Gender in Japan; Uma Rani (SA) 4369 Brinda Viswanathan (SA) 497 Two Nations and a Dead Body: Mortuarial Entangled Histories; Anjali Arondekar Assisting Childbirth; Punam Zutshi Rites and Post-Colonial Modes of (BR) 3409 (BR) 2310 Nation-Making in South Asia; Sajal Nag Eyewitness to a Movement; Bonita Aleaz Breastfeeding and Child Health; (SA) 5183 (BR) 624 Arun Gupta and Deeksha Sharma Violence in Singur; A Reader (LE) 5088 Falling Fertility and Rising Anaemia? (LE) 1402 West Bengal: Land Acquisition and Ashish Bose (C) 3923 Chhattisgarh: Grassroot Mobilisation for Peasant Resistance at Singur; Food Security, Agrarian Crisis and Rural Children’s Nutrition Rights; Parthasarathi Banerjee (C) 4718 Livelihoods: Implications for Women; Samir Garg (F) 3694 Who’s Afraid of Buddhadeb? GPD (C) 1956 Maithreyi Krishnaraj (SA) 5376 Child Mortality in Iraq since 1990; Women’s Protests in Singur; Members Khonj Gender and Work in the ‘Digital Economy’; Tim Dyson (SA) 4487 Ekhon Porishod (LE) 5290 Sujata Gothoskar (BR) 1517 Child Survival Programmes Revisited; WHEAT Gender Budgeting Statement: Misleading Manu N Kulkarni (C) 28 From 50 Years Ago (May 12, 1956): and Patriarchal Assumptions; Subrat Das A Critique of Healthcare Policy in India; Importing Wheat (Ed) 1825 and Yamini Mishra (C) 3285 Kannamma Raman (BR) 4579

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Demand Side Financing for Reproductive Employment Guarantee and Child Rights; WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN and Child Health Services in India; A Kiran Bhatty (C) 1965 MANAGEMENT Gorter; K R Thankappan; C A K Yesudian Gender and Work in the ‘Digital Economy’; Roadmap to Risk and Volatility (Ed) 3827 and M R Bhatia (SA) 279 Sujata Gothoskar (BR) 1517 WORLD BANK Falling Fertility and Rising Anaemia? Housewife, Sex Worker and Reformer: Fishing in Federal Waters; Ashish Bose (C) 3923 Controversies over Women Writing Their Nagesh Prabhu (C) 3467 Food Dole or Health, Nutrition and Lives in Kerala; J Devika (SA) 1675 From 50 Years Ago (June 9, 1956): Development Programme? Maharashtra The Business of Banning World Bank Vision (Ed) 2277 Shanti Ghosh (F) 3664 (Ed) 1600 Globalisation and War in Ivory Coast; Hidden Hunger: The Problem and Possible Patterns of Female Employment in Urban Peter Custers (C) 1844 Interventions; Tara Gopaldas (F) 3671 India: Analysis of NSS Data (1983 to Unknown Extent, Distribution and Trend ICDS and Persistent Undernutrition: 1999-2000); Sona Mitra (SA) 5000 of Global Income Poverty; Thomas Pogge Strategies to Enhance the Impact; Tourism Processes and Gender Relations: and Sanjay G Reddy (SA) 2241 Yi-Kyoung Lee; Monica Das Gupta; Issues for Exploration and Intervention; Who Are the ‘Community’? The World Bank Caryn Bredenkamp; Michele Gragnolati Indra Munshi (SA) 4461 and Agrarian Power in Bihar; and Meera Shekar (SA) 1193 Women and Work: After the Law (Ed) 4304 Kalpana Wilson (C) 23 Implementation of ICDS in Bihar and WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT WTO Jharkhand; Nandini Nayak and Is Gender Easy to Study? Some Reflections; Choosing the Appropriate Tariff Reduction Naresh C Saxena (F) 3680 Maithreyi Krishnaraj (SA) 4440 Formula in NAMA; Prabhash Ranjan Infant and Young Child Feeding: An Making It Relevant: Mapping the Meaning (C) 1507 ‘Optimal’ Approach; Arun Gupta (F) 3666 of Women’s Studies in Tamil Nadu; Data Exclusivity in Pharmaceuticals: Infant Survival: A Political Challenge; S Anandhi and Padmini Swaminathan Little Basis, False Claims; Biswajit Dhar Shantha Sinha (F) 3657 (SA) 4444 and K M Gopakumar (SA) 5073 Preliminary Findings from the Third Making Space for Feminist Social Critique Endgame on Doha? (Ed) 2691 National Family Health Survey; in Contemporary Kerala; J Devika and Failure of WTO Geneva Mini-Ministerial: Kamla Gupta; Sulabha Parasuraman; Mini Sukumar (SA) 4469 New Deadline and Challenges; P Arokiasamy; S K Singh and Women’s Studies in China Today; Martin Khor (C) 3143 H Lhungdim (C) 4417 Ravni Thakur (SA) 4455 Higher Education From Politics to Market Rethinking ICDS: A Rights Based WOMEN’S MOVEMENT (Ed) 668 Perspective; Dipa Sinha (F) 3689 Eyewitness to a Movement; Bonita Aleaz Impasse at the WTO: A Development Tamil Nadu: ICDS with a Difference; (BR) 624 Perspective; Martin Khor (F) 4659 Anuradha Khati Rajivan (F) 3684 WOMEN’S RIGHTS Issues on in Environmental Goods and Universalisation of ICDS and Community Sacred Spaces, Secular Norms and Services; Archana S Mathur and Health Worker Programmes: Lessons from Women’s Rights; Kavita Krishnan (C) 2969 Pradeep Kr Guin (SA) 4675 Chhattisgarh; T Sundararaman (F) 3674 WOMEN’S STATUS No Pills for Poor People? Understanding the Universalisation with Quality: ICDS in a Construction of Gender and Religious Disembowelment of India’s Patent Regime; Rights Perspective; Jean Dreze (SA) 3706 Identities in the First Punjabi Novel Dwijen Rangnekar (SA) 409 WOMEN AND EDUCATION Sundari; Gurpreet Bal (SA) 3528 Para 6 of WTO Doha Declaration: Is Gender Easy to Study? Some Reflections; Empowerment of Sex Workers the Kolkata Non-Solution of TRIPS Problem; Maithreyi Krishnaraj (SA) 4440 Experience; Swati Ghosh (D) 1289 C Niranjan Rao (C) 301 Making It Relevant: Mapping the Meaning From ‘Amazonian’ Warrior to Submissive Patents and Pharmaceuticals in India; of Women’s Studies in Tamil Nadu; Wife: The Taming of Alli; C Niranjan Rao (BR) 1975 S Anandhi and Padmini Swaminathan Vijaya Ramaswamy (SA) 1661 Policy Space in Historical Perspective with (SA) 4444 Housewife, Sex Worker and Reformer: Special Reference to Trade and Industrial Making Space for Feminist Social Critique Controversies over Women Writing Their Policies; Ha-Joon Chang (SA) 627 in Contemporary Kerala; J Devika and Lives in Kerala; J Devika (SA) ` 1675 Review of WTO Rules on Antidumping and Mini Sukumar (SA) 4469 Looking through the Purdah; Indrani Sen Countervailing Measures; C Satapathy Women’s Studies in China Today; (BR) 1775 (SA) 263 Ravni Thakur (SA) 4455 Recovering a Tradition: Forgotten Women’s Sustaining Agricultural Trade: Policy and WOMEN AND POLITICS Voices; Eunice De’souza (SA) 1642 Impact; Dhanmanjiri Sathe and Being Women Councillors; Usha Thakkar Riddle of Population Growth: R S Deshpande (SA) 5337 (BR) 713 Deceleration in Andhra Pradesh during WTO’s Hong Kong Conference: An Appraisal; Northern Ireland Six Women and the IRA; 1991-2001; Sanjay Kumar and Muchkund Dubey (C) 15 Sajal Nag (C) 699 N K Sharma (SA) 4507 WOMEN AND RELIGION The Ways of Faith: Zenana Mission in Construction of Gender and Religious Trivandrum, 1864-1964; G S Jayasree Identities in the First Punjabi Novel (SA) 1669 Sundari; Gurpreet Bal (SA) 3528 Women and Empire; Saleem Kidwai Muslim Personal Law: Rights for Shia (BR) 2547 Women (Ed) 4928 Women’s Agency in the Context of Sexuality A Realm of Politics; Family Networks in Indian Diaspora; Arvind Narrain (BR) 1189 Shobhita Jain (P) 2312 Why Is the Veil Such a Contentious Issue? 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