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Author Index (PDF 299 AUTHOR INDEX A Correspondent: High Stakes in the WTO’s Anand Kumar, Vasam: Case for Bagal, Satish: Managing Public Private Mini-ministerial (C) De-Amalgamation of Regional Rural Banks Partnerships (C) Issue No 29, Page: 14 (SA) Issue No 33, Page: 23 Abraham, Rosa A and K S Kavi Kumar: Issue No 42, Page: 60 Bagchi, Amaresh: Globalisation and Multidimensional Poverty and Anand, Mukesh: Pay Commission: Missing the Federalism: Uneasy Partners? (SA) Vulnerability (SA) Wood, Missing the Trees (C) Issue No 38, Page: 41 Issue No 20, Page: 77 Issue No 35, Page: 11 Bagchi, Amiya Kumar: Smooth Narrative, Abraham, Thomas: Little Can Be Achieved Anand, Mukesh and Saswata Chaudhury: Spotty Scholarship (BR) through Negotiations on Tibet (C) Demographic and Social Changes: Issues for Issue No 9, Page: 29 Issue No 14, Page: 8 the Sixth Central Pay Commission (SA) Bagla, Pallava: ISRO’s Deep Space Venture Acharya, Alka: India-China Relations: Issue No 7, Page: 54 (C) Towards a ‘Shared Vision’ (C) Ananth, V Krishna: The Third Front Mirage Issue No 45, Page: 21 Issue No 4, Page: 10 Again (C) Bahl, Vinay: Patriarchy 101 (BR) Achintya Kumar Dutta: Black Fever in Bihar: Issue No 32, Page: 32 Issue No 32, Page: 52 Experiences and Responses (F) –: V P Singh (1931-2008) (C) Baishya, Prabin: Communists and Capitalism Issue Nos 12 and 13, Page: 47 Issue No 49, Page: 21 (LE) Achyuta, Suneetha: Feminist Engagements Anil Kumar, V: Social Sciences (LE) Issue No 15, Page: 4 with Law in India (BR) Issue No 33, Page: 4 Baker, Chris and Pasuk Phongpaichit: Issue No 39, Page: 36 Anjaria, Ulka: Nation in Post-colonial Thailand: Fighting over Democracy (C) Admiral Tahiliani (et al): The (Con)fidence Literature (BR) Issue No 50, Page: 18 Vote (LE) Issue No 21, Page: 25 Bakht, Farid: Will There Be Elections in Issue No 30, Page: 4 Ansari, Iqbal A: Free Speech – Hate Speech: Bangladesh This Year? (F) Adve, Nagraj: See Dhawan, Harish The Taslima Nasreen Case (C) Issue No 4, Page: 8 Issue No 3, Page: 82 Issue No 8, Page: 15 –: On a Bumpy Road to Elections (F) –: See Dhawan, Harish Anu Kumar: The Unrelenting Contrarian (BR) Issue No 22, Page: 8 Issue No 42, Page: 4 Issue No 1, Page: 27 –: Time to Do Deals? (F) Adve, Nagraj and Harish Dhawan: –: Imagination Is (Almost) Everything (BR) Issue No 31, Page: 8 Suppression of Dissent (LE) Issue No 36, Page: 32 Bakshi, Prakash and A K Sahoo: Issue No 2, Page: 4 Araghi, Farshad: Political Economy of the Conceptual Errors (LE) Afridi, Farzana: Can Community Monitoring Financial Crisis: A World-Historical Issue No 20, Page: 4 Improve the Accountability of Perspective (F) Bal, Gurpreet: See Judge S Paramjit Public Officials? (F) Issue No 45, Page: 30 Issue No 41, Page: 49 Issue No 42, Page: 35 Arnim, Rudiger von: See Jomo, K S –: A Good Addition to Existing Literature (BR) Agarwal, Manish and Aditya Bhattacharjea: Issue No 48, Page: 11 Issue No 19, Page: 32 Are Merger Regulations Diluting –: See Jomo, K S Balagopal, K: The NHRC on Salwa Judum: Parliamentary Intent? (C) Issue No 49, Page: 29 A Most Friendly Inquiry (C) Issue Nos 26 and 27, Page: 10 Arora, Vibha: Gandhigiri in Sikkim (C) Issue No 51, Page: 10 Agarwala, Adhip: Gandhi the Man (LE) Issue No 38, Page: 27 Balakrishnan, Pulapre and M Parameswaran: Issue No 44, Page: 4 Arun Kumar: Recruitment and Weeding Out Economic Growth (LE) Aggarwal, Ashish: Indigenous Institutions for Process (D) Issue No 2, Page: 4 Natural Resource Management: Potential Issue No 8, Page: 77 Balakrishnan, Pulapre: Social Science Research and Threats (C) –: Flatering National and Global Growth in India: Concerns and Proposals (F) Issue No 23, Page: 21 Prospects (C) Issue No 5, Page: 28 Ahuja, Rajeev: See Berman, Peter Issue No 28, Page: 15 –: Imagining an Economy of Plenty in Kerala (C) Issue Nos 26 and 27, Page: 209 Asher, Manshi: Mine Now, Mine Forever? (BR) Issue No 20, Page: 14 Alagarajan, Manoj and P M Kulkarni: Issue No 28, Page: 33 Bandyopadhyay, D: Does Land Still Matter? (P) Religious Differentials in Fertility in India: Asher, Mukul G: See Singala, Subbaiah Issue No 10, Page: 37 Is There a Convergence? (F) Issue No 10, Page: 65 –: Guiding Role of Central Finance Commission Issue No 48, Page: 44 Ashtekar, Shyam: The National Rural Health Regarding State Counterparts (P) Alam, Aniket: ‘National Interest’ Not the Issue Mission: A Stocktaking (C) Issue No 22, Page: 25 in Nuclear Deal (C) Issue No 37, Page: 23 –: Singur: What Happened, What Next and Issue No 39, Page: 12 Ashutosh Kumar: Dissonance between Time to Pay the Cost (C) Alam, Javeed: The Contemporary Muslim Economic Reforms and Democracy (SA) Issue No 48, Page: 13 Situation in India: A Long-Term View Issue No 1, Page: 54 Bandyopadhyay, Kaushik Ranjan: (SA) Assadi, Muzaffar: Fatwa, Terrorism and Jehad (C) OPEC’s Price-Making Power (C) Issue No 2, Page: 45 Issue No 31, Page: 16 Issue No 46, Page: 18 Alier, J Martinez: Languages of Valuation (F) Ayush, H N: See Vijay Kumar Bandyopadhyay, Krishna: Naxalbari Politics: Issue No 48, Page: 28 Issue No 20, Page: 67 A Feminist Narrative (SA) AM: Eyeless in Bengal (C) Babaei, Ahmad Reza: Israel’s Concerns and Issue No 14, Page: 52 Issue No 8, Page: 10 Iran’s Nuclear Programme (C) Banerjee, Partha Sarathi: The Party and the Amanullah, Arshad: Legal Dynamics of Issue No 6, Page: 21 Panchayats of West Bengal (C) Minority Educational Institutions (BR) Babu, M Suresh: Fiscal Sustainability of Issue No 24, Page: 17 Issue Nos 12 and 13, Page: 30 Tamil Nadu (D) Banerjee, Prathama: The Social Sciences in Ambasta, Pramathesh; P S Vijay Shankar and Issue No 11, Page: 76 Post-1947 India (C) Mihir Shah: Two Years of NREGA: Babu, Tapan: Six Characters in Issue No 16, Page: 22 The Road Ahead (F) Search of a Crisis (F) Banerjee, Sumanta: Goodbye Socialism (C) Issue No 8, Page: 41 Issue No 45, Page: 32 Issue No 4, Page: 13 Economic & Political Weekly EPW november ??, 2009 1 AUTHOR INDEX –: Fond Memories (LE) Transformation? (D) –: See Agarwal, Manish Issue No 14, Page: 4 Issue No 46, Page: 87 Issue No 26, Page: 10 –: The Story of ‘Battala’ (BR) Baxi, Pratiksha: Feminist Contributions to Bhattacharjee, Dhrubajyoti: See Meena, Issue No 15, Page: 44 Sociology of Law: A Review (SA) Rakesh Kumar –: On the Naxalite Movement: A Report with Issue No 43, Page: 79 Issue No 25, Page: 15 a Difference (C) Beena, P L: Trends and Perspectives on Corporate Bhattacharjee, Saurabh: India Needs a Issue No 21, Page: 10 Mergers in Contemporary India (RIM) Refugee Law (F) –: Homage to ‘Red Rosa’ (BR) Issue No 39, Page: 48 Issue No 9, Page: 71 Issue No 23, Page: 27 Bennathan, Esra: On Reforming the IMF (D) Bhattacharya, Abhijit: Bringing Academic –: Media: Bashed from Outside and Flawed Issue No 35, Page: 73 Rigour to the Field of Entrepreneurship from Within (C) Bera, Sayantan: Programme Design and in India (RIM) Issue No 31, Page: 10 Impact Assessments: ‘Success’ of Issue No 39, Page: 87 –: A Political Cul-de-sac: CPI(M)’s Tragic Microfinance in Perspective (SA) Bhattacharya, B K: Remembering Sylhet (LE) Denouement (C) Issue No 32, Page: 77 Issue No 44, Page: 4 Issue No 42, Page: 12 Berman, Peter and Rajeev Ahuja: Government Bhattacharya, Manas: The International –: Guess Who’s Calling Us for Dinner? (C) Health Spending in India (SA) Experience of Auctioning Spectrum (F) Issue No 46, Page: 22 Issue Nos 26 and 27, Page: 209 Issue No 37, Page: 33 –: A Wide Gamut of Relationships (BR) Bertrand, Marianne (et al): Corruption in Bhattacharya, Rudrani; Ila Patnaik and Issue No 51, Page: 32 Driving Licensing Process in Delhi (SA) Ajay Shah: Early Warnings of Inflation in Banerjee-Guha, Swapna: Space Relations of Issue No 5, Page: 71 India (SA) Capital and Significance of New Economic Bery, Suman: Options to Consider in Public Issue No 49, Page: 62 Enclaves: SEZs in India (SA) Debt Management (F) Bhattacharya, Sanjoy: Introduction (F) Issue No 47, Page: 51 Issue No 41, Page: 12 Issue Nos 12 and 13, Page: 39 Banerji, Debabar: Another False Promise (LE) Béteille, André: Access to Education (P) Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan and Kumar Rana: Issue No 52, Page: 4 Issue No 20, Page: 40 Politics of PDS Anger in West Bengal (SA) Bansal, S C; M N Khan and V R Dutt: Economic –: Constitutional Morality (P) Issue No 5, Page: 63 Liberalisation and Civil Aviation Industry Issue No 40, Page: 35 Bhukya, Bhangya: The Mapping of the (F) Bhaduri, Amit: Predatory Growth (C) Adivasi Social: Colonial Anthropology and Issue No 34, Page: 71 Issue No 16, Page: 10 Adivasis (SA) Bantu, Ramakrishna: The Nano – I (LE) Bhaduri, Amit (et al): Maoist and State Issue No 39, Page: 103 Issue No 5, Page: 4 Violence in Orissa – I (LE) Bidwai, Praful: Confronting the Reality of Bapuji, M: Universities, National Laboratories Issue No 9, Page: 4 Hindutva Terrorism (C) and Scientific Research (LE) Bhagavan, Manu: The Hindutva Underground: Issue No 47, Page: 10 Issue No 30, Page: 138 Hindu Nationalism and the Indian National Bijoy, C R: The Plachimada Struggle (BR) Barbora, Sanjay; Susan Thieme; Karin Astrid Congress in Late Colonial and Early Issue No 46, Page: 35 Siegmann; Vineetha Menon and Ganesh Post-colonial India (SA) Biswas, Prasenjit: The Bali Execution (LE) Gurung: Migration Matters in South Asia: Issue No 37, Page: 39 Issue No 46, Page: 98 Commonalities and Critiques (SA) Raghavan, Srinath: Terror, Force and Boillot, Jean-Joseph and Gopal Rajan: Issue No 24, Page: 57 Diplomacy (C) India Viewed from France (LE) Baru, Rama V and Madhurima Nundy: Blurring Issue No 49, Page: 10 Issue No 7, Page: 4 of Boundaries: Public-Private Partnerships Bhalla, G S: Making Growth Inclusive
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