Economic and Political Weekly INDEX Vol XXXVII Nos 1-26 January-June 2002 Rs 25 No Pages No Pages January 5-11 1 1-84 April 6-12 14 1293-1372 Ed = Editorial January 12-18 2 85-172 April 13-19 15 1373-1472 F = Features January 19-25 3 173-268 April 20-26 16 1473-1560 January 26-February1 4 269-356 April 27-May 3 (Review CL = Civil Liberties February 2-8 (Money, of Women Studies) 17 1561-1692 C = Commentary Banking and Finance) 5 357-508 February 9-15 6 509-588 May 4-10 18 1693-1768 P = Perspective February 16-22 7 589-676 May 11-17 19 1769-1852 February 23-March 1 BR = Book Review (Review of Industry and May 18-24 20 1853-1956 MMR = Money Market Review Management) 8 677-804 May 25-31 (Review of Labour 21 1957-2100 SA = Special Article March 2-8 9 805-892 D = Discussion March 9-15 10 893-984 June 1-7 22 2101-2194 March 16-22 11 985-1072 June 8-14 23 2185-2268 S = Statistics March 23-29 12 1073-1164 June 15-21 24 2269-2372 SS = Special Statistics March 30-April 5 (Review June 22-28 25 2373-2512 of Agriculture) 13 1165-1292 June 29-July 5 26 2513-2664 LE = Letter to Editor SUBJECT INDEX ABORTION AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AND AGRICULTURAL PRICES Curbing Female Foeticide: Doctors, DEVELOPMENT Procurement and Issue Prices of Government and Civil Society Agricultural Growth, Employment Agricultural Commodities (S) 1480 Ensure Failure; Ashish Bose (C) 696 and Poverty: A Policy Perspective; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ADIVASIS R Radhakrishna (SA) 243 Agricultural Exports: Good Intentions, Reflections on Gujarat Pradesh of Capital Formation and Growth in but... (Ed) 1566 Hindu Rashtra; K Balagopal (C) 2117 Agriculture: Neglected Aspects AGRICULTURAL REFORMS ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS and Dimensions; S D Sawant; Missing Women in Agriculture A Cat Difficult to Bell (Ed) 271 Vaidehi Daptardar and Sandhya Reforms (Ed) 679 AFGHANISTAN Mhatre (D) 1068 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH The Fifth Afghan War and International Food Security: Agenda for Asian Agricultural Biotechnology and New Law; V S Mani (C) 294 Economies; Surjit Singh (C) 2418 Trends in IPR Regime: Challenges Reconstruction of Afghanistan Revisiting Agrarian Issues; Surinder S before Developing Countries; into a Modern Nation; Ranjit Sau Jodhka (BR) 711 Sachin Chaturvedi (SA) 1212 (C) 118 Terms of Trade, Trade and Technical Contributions of Agricultural Research; Unheard Melodies from Afghanistan; Change: Strategies for Agricultural P K Joshi et al (C) 1193 Sumanta Banerjee (C) 380 Growth; Bhupat M Desai (SA) 801 Coping with Nature’s Wrath; AGARWAL, ANIL AGRICULTURAL MARKETING Firdousi Naher (BR) 2142 Environmentalist of the Poor; Agricultural Exports: Good Intentions, AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS Ramachandra Guha (C) 204 but... (Ed) 1566 Agriculture: Area and Yield of AGRARIAN RELATIONS Doha Declaration and Agriculture Major Crops, 1960-2001 (S) 2192 Movements from Below; N Benjamin in Developing Countries; AGRICULTURAL TAXATION (BR) 1812 R Thamarajakshi (C) 23 Revenue Estimates for a Crop-Specific The Peasant Questions from Marx Terms of Trade, Trade and Technical Agricultural Tax; Indira Rajaraman to Lenin: The Russian Experience; Change: Strategies for Agricultural and Nilabja Ghosh (SA) 1204 Nirmal Kumar Chandra (SA) 1927 Growth; Bhupat M Desai (SA) 801 AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY Suicide by Farmers in Karnataka: AGRICULTURAL POLICY Agricultural Biotechnology and New Agrarian Distress and Possible Agriculture Policy: Need for Paradigm Trends in IPR Regime: Challenges Alleviatory Steps; R S Deshpande Shift (Ed) 896 before Developing Countries; (SA) 2601 Biotechnology: Case for Caution (Ed) 4 Sachin Chaturvedi (SA) 1212 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Bold Initiatives Needed on Agriculture Farmer Perceptions, Varietal Charac- Colonialism, Capitalism and Nature: and Rural Employment; S Mahendra teristics and Technology Adoption: Debating the Origins of Mahanadi Dev (F) 1089 A Rainfed Rice Village in Orissa; Delta’s Hydraulic Crisis (1803-1928); Procurement and Issue Prices of K G Kshirsagar, S Pandey and Rohan D’Souza (SA) 1261 Agricultural Commodities (S) 1480 M R Bellon (SA) 1239 Economic and Political Weekly Index January-June 2002 1 Small Cultivators in Bihar and ASIA Undermining Patriarchy, Empowering New Technology: Choice or Coping with Capital Account Women; Rohini Hensman (BR) 1330 Compulsion? Kalpana Wilson Crises: Financial Cooperation in BANK MANAGEMENT (SA) 1229 East Asia; Ramkishen Rajan (C) 704 Banking: Missing Dynamism (MMR) 598 AHMEDABAD Food Security: Agenda for Asian Cleaning the Augean Stables (Ed) 1476 Ahmedabadi Youth: What Causes Economies; Surjit Singh (C) 2418 BANKING STATISTICS Moral Amnesia? S Ganesh and Labour and Capitalist Transformation Money, Banking and Finance (SS) 483 Mrudul Mody (C) 1969 in Asia: Report on a Conference; Revitalising Growth: Idiom and Narendra Modi’s Directive to the K P Kannan and Mario Rutten Message; M K Datar (C) 373 Press; A G Noorani (CL) 2111 (C) 1981 BANKS AIR POLLUTION ASIA, SOUTH Banking Sector Reforms: A Critical Vehicular Pollution Control in Delhi: Demographic History; Mridula Overview; M G Bhide; A Prasad Need for Integrated Approach; Ramanna (BR) 1036 and Saibal Ghosh (SA) 399 Vinish Kathuria (SA) 1147 Peace in South Asia: Pipe-Dream or Cost of Credit of Commercial Banks AIRPORT SECURITY Real Possibility? Rohini Hensman in a Deregulated Environment; Airport Profiling: Cost-Benefit (P) 1800 K G K Subba Rao (SA) 660 Calculus and Beyond; Devon Possession and Deployment of Determinants of Off-Balance Sheet Carbado and Mitu Gulati (C) 2408 Nuclear Weapons in South Asia: Activities: An Empirical Analysis ANDHRA PRADESH An Assessment of Some Risks; of Public Sector Banks; D M Nachane Behroonguda: A Rare Success Story R Rajaraman; M V Ramana and and Saibal Ghosh (SA) 421 in Joint Forest Management; Zia Mian (SA) 2459 How Well Have Public Sector Banks Emmanuel D’Silva and B Nagnath ASIA, WEST Done? T T Ram Mohan (D) 1447 (SA) 551 Israel’s Familiar Logic (Ed) 1167 How Well Have Public Sector Conserving Water: Andhra’s Initiatives Violence and the Palestinian Struggle: Banks Done?: A Note; (Ed) 1565 A Voice of Wisdom; DN (C) 618 Errol D’Souza (SA) 867 Continuing Militancy in Telangana; ASSAM Issues in Asset Liability Management – K Murali (C) 692 Assam: Panchayat Elections Finally I: A V Rajwade (C) 378 Convergence of Programmes by (Ed) 88 Issues in Asset Liability Management – Empowering SHGs and PRIs; Protecting Forest Lands (Ed) 2516 II: The Regulatory Framework; D Bandyopadhyay, B N ATRE, T N A V Rajwade (C) 617 Yugandhar and Amitava Mukharjee Driving a Coach-and-Four Over the Issues in Asset Liability Management – (C) 2556 Village Cart and Gaav-Gada; III: More on the Regulatory Frame- Lambadas: Changing Cultural Patterns; S H Deshpande (SA) 2239 work; A V Rajwade (C) 832 Gita Ramaswamy and Bhangya AUSTRALIA Issues in Asset Liability Management – Bhukya (C) 1497 Australia’s Backward March? IV: The Maturity Gap Model; New Populism and Liberalisation: S P Seth (C) 1401 A V Rajwade (C) 1017 Regime Shift under Chandrababu AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY Issues in Asset Liability Management – Naidu in AP; G Krishna Reddy Changing Two-Wheeler Scene (Ed) 273 V: Pricing of Liabilities; (SA) 871 ‘Lemon Law’ of Indian Auto Users; A V Rajwade (C) 1186 Quality of Reproductive Care in Suneeti Rao (C) 819 Issues in Asset Liability Management – Private Hospitals in Andhra Pradesh: Product Development: Learning from VI: Pricing of Assets; Women’s Perception; Alex George Reva Experience; Rishikesh T A V Rajwade (C) 1394 (SA) 1686 Krishnan (C) 1787 Issues in Asset Liability Management – Web of Opportunity; Suneeti Rao AYODHYA ISSUE VII: Management of Securities (BR) 220 Ayodhya: High Cost of Prevarication Portfolios; A V Rajwade (C) 1591 ANIMAL FEED (Ed) 809 WTO and Indian Banking Sector: Political Economy of the Animal Crackdown in Faizabad: Are We The Road Ahead; Mathew Joseph Feed and Food Contamination Governed by the Constitution? and Rupa Rege-Nitsure (SA) 2315 Debate in India; Priya Deshingkar Uma Chakravarti and Anand BEHROONGUDA (SA) 1437 Chakravarti (C) 2202 Behroonguda: A Rare Success Story ARGENTINA Gujarat’s Burning Train: India’s in Joint Forest Management; Argentina and East Asia: The Peg Inferno? Shreekant Sambrani (C) 1305 Emmanuel D’Silva and B Nagnath Does It Yet Again; Ramkishen Not for the Back-Burner (Ed) 1075 (SA) 551 Rajan (C) 116 AYURVEDA BENARES Argentina: Implosion of Neo- Public Policy and Ayurveda: Modernis- Role of Benares in Constructing liberalism; Frederic F Clairmont ing a Great Tradition; Madhulika Political Hindu Identity; Marzia (C) 1196 Banerjee (SA) 1136 Casolari (SA) 1413 Restructuring Argentina’s Debt: BALANCE OF PAYMENTS BIHAR How Is It Going to Happen? India’s Overall Balance of Payments Small Cultivators in Bihar and New Mitu Gulati (C) 30 (S) 1964 Technology: Choice or Compulsion? ARMED FORCES Invisibles in India’s Balance of Kalpana Wilson (SA) 1229 Strategic Consequences of India’s Payments: by Category of BIOSAFETY Economic Performance; Sanjay Baru Transactions (S) 275 Precautionary Principle under Bio- (SA) 2583 BANGLADESH safety Protocol: Needs for a ASBESTOS INDUSTRY Coping with Nature’s Wrath; Cautious Approach; Swapan K Protecting Asbestos Victims (Ed) 2271 Firdousi Naher (BR) 2142 Bhattacharya (P) 2441 2 Economic and Political Weekly Index January-June 2002 BIOTECHNOLOGY Dube, Saurabh: Untouchable Pasts – Mukhia, Banani: Women’s Images, Biotechnology: Case for Caution Religion, Identity and Power among Men’s Imagination – Female (Ed) 4 a Central Indian Community 1332 Characters in Bengali Fiction GMOs: Need for Appropriate Risk