Economic and Political Weekly INDEX Vol XLIV Nos 1-52 January-December 2009 Ed = Editorial MMR = Money Market Review F = Features SA = Special Article CL = Civil Liberties D = Discussion C = Commentary SS = Special Statistics P = Perspective LE = Letter to Editor BR = Book Review SUBJECT INDEX ACCIDENTAL DEATHS AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN RELATIONS Dead Man Walking; (Ed) The New Great Game in Afghanistan and Issue no: 33, Aug 15-21 Pakistan; Sajjad Aasim Akhtar (P) Issue no: 01, Jan 03-09 Road Traffic Crashes: The Scourge of UP's Cities; Sanjay K Singh (C) AFRICA Issue no: 48, Nov 28-Dec 4 Quiet Flows the Blood; (Ed) Issue no: 08, Feb 21-27 ADOPTION The Business and Ethics of Surrogacy; AGRARIAN RELATIONS Imrana Qadeer and Mary E John (C) The Crisis of the Left; Prabhat Patnaik Issue no: 02, Jan 10-16 (P) Issue no: 44, Oct 31-Nov 6 ADOPTION LAW The Business and Ethics of Surrogacy; Harvest of Despair; Archana Aggarwal Imrana Qadeer and Mary E John (C) (BR) Issue no: 02, Jan 10-16 Issue no: 29, Jul 18-24 AFGHANISTAN On Women Surviving Farmer Suicides in Afghanistan: Beyond the 'Surge' Strategy; Punjab; Ranjana Padhi (SA) (Ed) Issue no: 19, May 09-15 Issue no: 50, Dec 12-18 AGRIBUSINESS Afghanistan: Which Way Now?; (Ed) Unfair Minimum Support Price; Kripa Shankar Issue no: 45, Nov 7-13 (LE) Issue no: 51, Dec 19-25 Descent into `Democratic' Chaos; (Ed) Issue no: 36, Sep 05-11 AGRICULTURAL COSTS Peasant Classes under Neoliberalism: A Islam, Muslims and Ethnicity; Balraj Puri Class Analysis of Two States; Arindam (C) Banerjee (SA) Issue no: 17, Apr 25-May 01 Issue no: 15, Apr 11-17 The Ulema, Deoband and the (Many) AGRICULTURAL CREDIT Talibans; S Akbar Zaidi (F) Consolidating the Growth of Microfinance; Issue no: 19, May 09-15 Sankar Datta (BR) Issue no: 30, Jul 25-31 AGRICULTURAL CREDIT Survival of Agricultural Labour in Punjab: A Harvest of Despair; Archana Aggarwal Burning Question; Sukhpal (BR) Singh (C) Issue no: 29, Jul 18-24 Issue no: 29, Jul 18-24 AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL LAND Agriculture in a High Growth State: Case Lost Opportunity in Bihar; D Bandyopadhyay of Gujarat (1960 to 2006); Anita K (C) Dixit (F) Issue no: 47, Nov 21-27 Issue no: 50, Dec 12-18 Real Estate and Agricultural Wetlands in Regional Disparity in Agricultural Kerala; P P Nikhil Raj and P A Azeez Development of Maharashtra; B B Mohanty (F) (SA) Issue no: 05, Jan 31-Feb 06 Issue no: 06, Feb 07-13 Tatas and Singur; Partho S Datta (LE) Secret of Gujarat's Agrarian Miracle after Issue no: 02, Jan 10-16 2000; Tushaar et al Shah (SA) Issue no: 52, Dec 26-Jan 01 AGRICULTURAL PLANNING AND POLICY Economic Liberalisation and Indian AGRICULTURAL INCOME Agriculture: A Statewise Analysis; G S Agriculture in a High Growth State: Case of Bhalla and Gurmail Singh (SA) Gujarat (1960 to 2006); Anita Dixit (F) Issue no: 52, Dec 26-Jan 01 Issue no: 50, Dec 12-18 AGRICULTURAL PRICES Peasant Classes under Neoliberalism: A Peasant Classes under Neoliberalism: A Class Analysis of Two States; Arindam Class Analysis of Two States; Arindam Banerjee (SA) Banerjee (SA) Issue no: 15, Apr 11-17 Issue no: 15, Apr 11-17 AGRICULTURAL LABOUR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION Employment Growth in Rural India: Distress- Agriculture in a High Growth State: Case Driven?; Vinoj Abraham (SA) of Gujarat (1960 to 2006); Anita K Dixit (F) Issue no: 16, Apr 18-24 Issue no: 50, Dec 12-18 Growth of Rural Non-Farm Employment in Dealing with Effects of Monsoon Failures; Uttar Pradesh: Reflections from Recent Ramesh Chand and Raju S S (P) Data; Sharad Ranjan (SA) Issue no: 41, Oct 10-23 Issue no: 04, Jan 24-30 Economic Liberalisation and Indian Indian Labour Movement: Colonial Era to Agriculture: A Statewise Analysis; G S the Global Age; T K Oommen (SA) Bhalla and Gurmail Singh (SA) Issue no: 52, Dec 26-Jan 01 Issue no: 52, Dec 26-Jan 01 Rural Non-Farm Economy: A Note on the Lost Opportunity in Bihar; D Bandyopadhyay Impact of Crop-Diversification and Land- (C) Conversion in India; Saumya Chakrabarti Issue no: 47, Nov 21-27 and Anirban Kundu (SA) Issue no: 12, Mar 21-27 Regional Disparity in Agricultural Development of Maharashtra; B B Mohanty Sectoral Labour Flows and Agricultural (SA) Wages in India, 1983-2004: Has Growth Issue no: 06, Feb 07-13 Trickled Down?; Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami and Wilima Wadhwa (SA) Issue no: 02, Jan 10-16 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION Secret of Gujarat's Agrarian Miracle after Sectoral Labour Flows and Agricultural 2000; Tushaar et al Shah (SA) Wages in India, 1983-2004: Has Growth Issue no: 52, Dec 26-Jan 01 Trickled Down?; Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami and Wilima Wadhwa (SA) AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Issue no: 02, Jan 10-16 Biotechnology and Pro-Poor Agricultural Development; N Chandrasekhara Rao and S AHMEDABAD Mahendra Dev (SA) Civil Society in Conflict Cities; Neera Issue no: 52, Dec 26-Jan 01 Chandhoke (SA) Issue no: 44, Oct 31-Nov 6 AGRICULTURAL SECTOR Agriculture in a High Growth State: Case of AIDS Gujarat (1960 to 2006); Anita K Dixit (F) HIV/AIDS in India: The Wider Picture; Issue no: 50, Dec 12-18 Rupa Chinai (F) Issue no: 06, Feb 07-13 Climate Change: Challenges Facing India's Poor; E Somanathan and Rohini Women's Property Rights and HIV/AIAIDS in Somanathan (F) India; Hema Swaminathan, Nandita Bhatla Issue no: 31, Aug 01-07 and Swati Chakraborty (SA) Issue no: 17, Apr 25-May 01 Corporate Retail: Dangerous Implications for India's Economy; Shankar Gopalakrishnan AIR POLLUTION and Priya Sreenivasa (SA) Urban Transport and Public Health; (Ed) Issue no: 32, Aug 08-14 Issue no: 51, Dec 19-25 Harvest of Despair; Archana Aggarwal (BR) AIR TRANSPORT Issue no: 29, Jul 18-24 Can Hedging Fly Airlines to Safety in Volatile ATF Markets?; Danish A Hashim and V Notes on the Political Economy of India's Shunmugam (C) Tortuous Transition; Pranab Bardhan (P) Issue no: 07, Feb 14-20 Issue no: 49, Dec 5-11 Should the Air India Maharaja Be Awarded On Women Surviving Farmer Suicides in His Privy Purse?; R Venkatesan (F) Punjab; Ranjana Padhi (SA) Issue no: 32, Aug 08-14 Issue no: 19, May 09-15 Strategic Flexible Planning and Real Options Peasant Classes under Neoliberalism: A for Airport Development in India; Hans Class Analysis of Two States; Arindam Huber (SA) Banerjee (SA) Issue no: 08, Feb 21-27 Issue no: 15, Apr 11-17 AIRPORTS Sectoral Labour Flows and Agricultural Strategic Flexible Planning and Real Options Wages in India, 1983-2004: Has Growth for Airport Development in India; Hans Trickled Down?; Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Huber (SA) Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami and Wilima Issue no: 08, Feb 21-27 Wadhwa (SA) Issue no: 02, Jan 10-16 ANDHRA PRADESH Accentuating the Social Divide; Uma R AGRICULTURAL WAGES Maheshwari (C) Employment Growth in Rural India: Distress- Issue no: 05, Jan 31-Feb 06 Driven?; Vinoj Abraham (SA) Issue no: 16, Apr 18-24 Andhra Pradesh: A Vote for Status Quo?; K C Suri, P Narasimha Rao and V Anji Reddy (F) Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02 ANDHRA PRADESH Y S Rajasekhara Reddy: A Political Appraisal; A Century of Political Fasting; (Ed) K Srinivasulu (C) Issue no: 52, Dec 26-Jan 01 Issue no: 38, Sep 19-25 Dalits, Praja Rajyam Party and Caste Politics YSR `Shock Deaths' in Andhra; C in Andhra Pradesh; Sambaiah Gundimeda Ramachandraiah (C) (SA) Issue no: 43, Oct 24-30 Issue no: 21, May 23-29 ANTHROPOLOGISTS Deaths in Prisons in Andhra Pradesh; Murali The Postnational, Inhabitation and the Work Karnam (C) of Melancholia; Pradeep Jeganathan (F) Issue no: 11, Mar 14-20 Issue no: 10, Mar 07-13 Grand Alliance in Andhra Pradesh; (Ed) ANTHROPOLOGY Issue no: 07, Feb 14-20 Plural Histories of Sociology and Social Anthropology; Surinder S Jodhka (BR) Lack of Community Participation in the Sarva Issue no: 17, Apr 25-May 01 Shiksha Abhiyan: A Case Study; Vasanta Srinivasa Rao (F) The Postnational, Inhabitation and the Work Issue no: 08, Feb 21-27 of Melancholia; Pradeep Jeganathan (F) Issue no: 10, Mar 07-13 Maoists and the Poor: Against Democracy?; Saroj Giri (C) ARGENTINA Issue no: 49, Dec 5-11 Who Cried for Argentina? Notes on the 2001-02 Crisis; Andres Lazzarini (C) Maytas, Hyderabad Metro and the Politics Issue no: 37, Sep 12-18 of Real Estate; C Ramchandraiah (F) Issue no: 03, Jan 17-23 ARMAMENTS Arms and Accounts; Pavan Nair (BR) Nature of Employment in the Food Processing Issue no: 43, Oct 24-30 Sector; N Chandrasekhara Rao and Sukti Dasgupta (SA) Destroyer of Peace; (Ed) Issue no: 17, Apr 25-May 01 Issue no: 32, Aug 08-14 NREGA Social Audit: Myths and Reality; K S Pushing South Asia towards the Brink; Zia Gopal (D) Mian (C) Issue no: 03, Jan 17-23 Issue no: 32, Aug 08-14 Populism and Patronage; (Ed) ARTISTS Issue no: 37, Sep 12-18 Playmaking as a Primary Act of Politics; Sadanand Menon (C) Public Distribution of Rice in Andhra Pradesh: Issue no: 26, Jun 27-Jul 10 Efficiency and Reform Options; Surajit Deb (SA) A Remarkable Career in the Theatre; Shohrat Issue no: 51, Dec 19-25 Rai (C) Issue no: 26, Jun 26-Jul 10 An Uncompromising Fight for Human Rights ARUNACHAL PRADESH and Values; Bela Bhatia (F) Arunachal: Emergence of Issue-Based Issue no: 44, Oct 31-Nov 6 Politics?; Nani Bath (F) Issue no: 39, Sep 26-Oct 02 Understanding Powerloom Weavers' Suicides in Sircilla; S Galab and E Revathi (C) Deafening Silence on Calamity Facing Issue no: 08, Feb 21-27 Assam; Hiren Gohain (LE) Issue no: 36, Sep 05-11 ARUNACHAL PRADESH Grand Alliance in Andhra Pradesh; (Ed) Victory by Default; (Ed) Issue no: 07, Feb 14-20 Issue no: 44, Oct 31-Nov 6 Himachal Pradesh Elections 2007: A Post- ASEAN COUNTRIES Poll Analysis; Ramesh K Chauhan and S N The ASEAN-India