The Maharashtra government’s Ladki Bahin scheme represents the latest addition to India’s repertoire of cash transfer initiatives. The scheme, ostensibly introduced to empower women and stimulate ...

In the 1946 assembly elections in the United Provinces, a sort of referendum was held on the formation of Pakistan. In this referendum, about 5% of the MuslimIn the 1946 assembly elections in the ...

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are currently the dominant feature of the international trading system. Hundreds of such agreements have been negotiated and almost all countries have participated ...

The importance of cities in India’s development transition derives from their externalities, which catalyse growth. On the supply side, agglomeration externalities are owed to the clustering of firms, ...

A casteist remark by a Kerala-based Mohiniyattam performer, trained at the prestigious Kerala Kalamandalam, sparked public outrage in Kerala, leading the National Human Rights Commission to initiate ...

The global surge of different kinds of conservative politics, broadly classified as populism, is an intensely theorised and researched area. Studying the flipside of populism, elitism, and the world ...

President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs have virtually disbanded the post-war multilateral trading system, which came ...

The factual context of this case is illustrative of a deeper crisis in India’s federal design, particularly involving the discretionary powers of the governor under Article 200 of the Constitution.

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

My employer told the police that I was involved in a motor accident. I had to admit that I was. It would be stupid for me to think that the police would believe me over my employer. If I told them ...

Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed government in 2014, it has been acting on several priorities set by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), including, among others, the revision of family ...

The resolution recognised that hunger and denial of humanitarian aid to the civilian population cannot be weaponised in war ...