Economic and Political Weekly INDEX Vol XXXIII Nos 1-52 January-December 1998 Ed = Editorials MMR = Money Market Review F = Feature RA= Review Article CL = Civil Liberties SA = Special Article C = Commentary D = Discussion P = Perspectives SS = Special Statistics BR = Book Review LE = Letters to Editor SUBJECT INDEX ACCIDENTAL DEATHS AGRARIAN POLICY Farmers' Suicide: Missing Issues; E Institutional Change and Output Growth in Revathi (D) West Bengal Agriculture: End of Issue no: 20, May 16-22, p.1207 Impasse; Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Pradip Kumar Biswas and Samaresh Bardhan (SA) Farmers' Suicides: Signs of Distress in Issue no: 47, Nov 21-Dec 04, p.2979 Rural Economy: Karnataka; Muzaffar Assadi (C) AGRARIAN RELATIONS Issue no: 14, Apr 04-10, p.747 Agricultural Labourers, the State and Agrarian Transition in Uttar Pradesh; Suicide: A Paradox of Development in Jens Larche (RA) Kerala; Murphy Halliburton (C) Issue no: 13, Mar 26-Apr 03, p.A29 Issue no: 36, Sep 05-18, p.2341 Changing Trajectories: Agricultural Suicides by Farmers (LE) Growth in West Bengal, 1950 to 1996; Issue no: 11, Mar 14-20, p.550 Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan (SA) Suicides of Cotton Farmers in Andhra Issue no: 40, Oct 03-09, p.2595 Pradesh: An Exploratory Study; G Parthasarathy and Shameen (SA) Disinherited Peasants, Disadvantaged Issue no: 13, Mar 26-Apr 03, p.720 Workers: A Gender Perspective on Land and Livelihood; Bina Agarwal (RA) ADILABAD Issue no: 13, Mar 26-Apr 03, p.A2 Cholera in Adilabad; B Janardhan Rao, E Revathi and P Anjaiah (LE) The Farmers' Movement in Punjab: Issue no: 46, Nov 14-20, p.2882 Politics of Pressure Groups and Pressure of Party Politics; Partha Nath AFGHANISTAN Mukherji (SA) Dealing with the 'War of the Future' (Ed) Issue no: 18, May 02-08, p.1043 Issue no: 33, Aug 15-28, p.2203 If Wishes Were Horses: Jahanabad and UN Undermined: US Missile Attacks (Ed) Dhanbad Struggles in Bihar; Krishna Issue no: 35, Aug 29-Sep 04, p.2265 Chaitanya (D) Issue no: 24, Jun 13-19, p.1482 AGRARIAN RELATIONS Farm Size and Productivity: A New Look at Massacre at Chenalho: Erasing Chiapas the Old Debate Revisited; Graham Dyer Uprising: Mexico; Vijay Prashad (C) (RA) Issue no: 01, Jan 10-16, p.21 Issue no: 26, Jun 27-Jul 03, p.A113 Parallels in the Empire; Tirthankar Roy AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT (BR) Agricultural Development, Agrarian Issue no: 20, May 16-22, p.1172 Structure and Rural Poverty in West Bengal; Madhusudan Ghosh (SA) Political Economy of Agrarian Conflicts Issue no: 47, Nov 21-Dec 04, p.2987 in India; C Chandramohan (P) Issue no: 41, Oct 10-16, p.2647 Agricultural Growth, Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation: Recent Trends and Regular Farm Labour System in Semi-Arid Major Issues of Reform; C H Hanumantha Areas: Emerging Patterns in Andhra Rao (SA) Pradesh; M Krishnaiah (RA) Issue no: 29, Jul 18-31, p.1943 Issue no: 13, Mar 26-Apr 03, p.A20 Changing Trajectories: Agricultural Tribals' Struggle against Land Growth in West Bengal, 1950 to 1996; Alienation: Andhra Pradesh; P Jaswantha Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan Rao (C) (SA) Issue no: 03, Jan 17-23, p.81 Issue no: 40, Oct 03-09, p.2595 AGRARIAN STRUCTURE Food, Agriculture and Reforms: Change and Agricultural Development, Agrarian Continuity; J Mohan Rao (SA) Structure and Rural Poverty in West Issue no: 29, Jul 18-31, p.1955 Bengal; Madhusudan Ghosh (SA) Issue no: 47, Nov 21-Dec 04, p.2987 India's Agricultural Dynamics: Weak Link in Development; Shashanka Bhide, K P AGRICULTURAL CREDIT Kalirajan and R T Shand (RA) Back to Square One: Priority Sector Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02, p.A118 Credit (Ed) Issue no: 19, May 09-15, p.1060 Institutional Change and Output Growth in West Bengal Agriculture: End of Credit Support to Priority Sectors: A Impasse; Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Pradip Macro Perspective; N A Mujumdar (C) Kumar Biswas and Samaresh Bardhan (SA) Issue no: 04, Jan 24-30, p.147 Issue no: 47, Nov 21-Dec 04, p.2979 Sorry Tale: Farm Credit (Ed) Policy Strategy and Instruments for Issue no: 40, Oct 03-09, p.2557 Alleviating Rural Poverty; Bhupat M Desai and N V Namboodiri (SA) Wrong Ratios: Priority Sector Lending Issue no: 41, Oct 10-16, p.2669 (Ed) Issue no: 32, Aug 08-14, p.2140 AGRICULTURAL LABOUR Agricultural Labourers, the State and AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Agrarian Transition in Uttar Pradesh; Economic Reforms, Terms of Trade, Jens Larche (RA) Aggregate Supply and Private Investment Issue no: 13, Mar 26-Apr 03, p.A29 in Agriculture: Indian Experience; V N Misra (SA) Containing Conflict and Reaping Votes: Issue no: 31, Aug 01-07, p.2105 Management of Rural Labour Relations in West Bengal; Ben Rogaly (SA) Farm Efficiency under Cobb-Douglas Issue no: 42, Oct 17-30, p.2729 Production Technology; Saswati Das and Manabendu Chattopadhyay (RA) Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02, p.A159 AGRICULTURAL LABOUR AGRICULTURAL SECTOR Labour History: Promise of Revival; Agriculture Ministry's Dubious Cotton Thomas J Mathew (C) Crop Estimates; M D Dewani (C) Issue no: 32, Aug 08-14, p.2161 Issue no: 50, Dec 12-18, p.3179 Regular Farm Labour System in Semi-Arid Institutional and Non-Institutional Areas: Emerging Patterns in Andhra Credit in Agriculture: Case Study of Pradesh; M Krishnaiah (RA) Hugli District of West Bengal; Issue no: 13, Mar 26-Apr 03, p.A20 Meenakshi Rajeev and Sharmistha Deb (SA) AGRICULTURAL PLANNING AND POLICY Issue no: 47, Nov 21-Dec 04, p.2997 Agricultural Exports, Poverty and Ecological Crisis: Case Study of Institutional Change and Output Growth in Central American Countries; Kalim West Bengal Agriculture: End of Siddiqui (RA) Impasse; Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Pradip Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02, p.A128 Kumar Biswas and Samaresh Bardhan (SA) Issue no: 47, Nov 21-Dec 04, p.2979 In Traditional Forces' Grip (Ed) Issue no: 05, Jan 31-Feb 06, p.195 Removal of Import Restrictions and India's Agriculture: The Challenge and AGRICULTURAL PRICES Strategy; Ramesh Chand (SA) Chasing Shadows: Prices (Ed) Issue no: 15, Apr 11-17, p.850 Issue no: 49, Dec 05-11, p.3092 Seeds of Confusion (Ed) Food Prices and Rural Poverty; Martin Issue no: 49, Dec 05-11, p.3091 Ravallion (D) Issue no: 28, Jul 11-17, p.1870 Sustainability Implications of Burning Rice-and Wheat-Straw in Punjab; B S et AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION al Sidhu (RA) Agricultural Exports, Poverty and Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02, p.A163 Ecological Crisis: Case Study of Central American Countries; Kalim AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDY Siddiqui (RA) What Is Right in Economics Is Wrong in Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02, p.A128 Politics: Maharashtra; Madhav Godbole (C) Farm Size and Productivity: A New Look at Issue no: 42, Oct 17-30, p.2696 the Old Debate Revisited; Graham Dyer (RA) AGRICULTURAL TAXATION Issue no: 26, Jun 27-Jul 03, p.A113 A Land-Based Agricultural Presumptive Tax Designed for Levy by Panchayats; India's Agricultural Dynamics: Weak Link Indira Rajaraman and M J Bhende (SA) in Development; Shashanka Bhide, K P Issue no: 14, Apr 04-10, p.765 Kalirajan and R T Shand (RA) Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02, p.A118 AGRICULTURAL WAGES Trends in Agricultural Wages: An Institutional and Non-Institutional Inter-Regional Analysis in Andhra Credit in Agriculture: Case Study of Pradesh; P Prudhvikar Reddy (RA) Hugli District of West Bengal; Issue no: 13, Mar 26-Apr 03, p.A15 Meenakshi Rajeev and Sharmistha Deb (SA) AHMEDABAD Issue no: 47, Nov 21-Dec 04, p.2997 Attack on CEPT Campus; Darshini Mahadevia, Gautam Shah and Prashant De AGRICULTURAL REFORMS (LE) Food, Agriculture and Reforms: Change and Issue no: 32, Aug 08-14, p.2138 Continuity; J Mohan Rao (SA) Issue no: 29, Jul 18-31, p.1955 AHMEDABAD Doomed to Fail?: 'Handloom Weavers' Forging a National Identity...by Force: Co-operatives in Andhra Pradesh; Gujarat; Darshini Mahadevia (C) Kanakalatha Mukund and B Syamasundari Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02, p.2501 (SA) Issue no: 52, Dec 26-Jan 01, p.3323 AIADMK Pressure from Regional Allies: Politics Farmers' Suicide: Missing Issues; E (Ed) Revathi (D) Issue no: 17, Apr 25-May 01, p.936 Issue no: 20, May 16-22, p.1207 AIDS Harassing Rights Activists; Shahana HIV/AIDS in India: Gulf between Rhetoric Bhattacharya (LE) and Reality; Radhika Ramasubban (SA) Issue no: 03, Jan 17-23, p.66 Issue no: 45, Nov 07-13, p.2865 Health Care Services in Tribal of Andhra Socio-Logic of AIDS Campaign; R Robinson Pradesh: A Public Policy Perspective; K (C) Sujata Rao (SA) Issue no: 29, Jul 18-31, p.1908 Issue no: 09, Feb 28-Mar 06, p.481 AIR POLLUTION Ill- Treatment of Prisoners (LE) Fiscal Options for Vehicular Pollution Issue no: 41, Oct 10-16, p.2622 Control in Delhi; Rita Pandey (SA) Issue no: 45, Nov 07-13, p.2673 In Traditional Forces' Grip (Ed) Issue no: 05, Jan 31-Feb 06, p.195 AIRPORTS Airport, Airport: Kerala; E Balachandran Nawabpet Killings (LE) (C) Issue no: 40, Oct 03-09, p.2554 Issue no: 32, Aug 08-14, p.2160 Open Verdict: Andhra Pradesh (Ed) ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Pather: A Symbol of Anti-Liquor Movement; Issue no: 11, Mar 14-20, p.552 Bharat Dogra (C) Issue no: 50, Dec 12-18, p.3185 Regular Farm Labour System in Semi-Arid Areas: Emerging Patterns in Andhra ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY Pradesh; M Krishnaiah (RA) Mining Destroys; Bittu Sahgal (LE) Issue no: 13, Mar 26-Apr 03, p.A20 Issue no: 15, Apr 11-17, p.802 Rights Violation; Vrijendra et al (LE) AMERICA, CENTRAL Issue no: 08, Feb 21-27, p.370 Agricultural Exports, Poverty and Ecological Crisis: Case Study of The Sadness of Cotton; Shiv Visvanathan Central American Countries; Kalim (C) Siddiqui (RA) Issue no: 07, Feb 14-20, p.323 Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02, p.A128 Selling Structural Adjustment: Andhra ANDHRA PRADESH Experience;