The recent remarks on menstrual leave in the Indian Parliament raise many issues about the states’ understanding of menstruation and women’s body. The frequently used argument against menstrual leave ...

In the mainstream literature, commercialisation of agriculture is studied in a linear fashion as a process of growth of surplus. However, the advance of productive forces that follow commercialisation ...

Antibiotics are one of the most significant medical developments of the 20th century. However, their widespread inclusion in therapeutic use has also developed adverse health implications. These are ...

Reason empowers common citizens, but it is feared by the power that survives on unreason.

The goods and services tax data varies based on sources. Therefore, depending on the database one chooses, the revenue performance assessment of the GST will be different. Moreover, GST collection and ...

Collective actions through rubber producer societies can overcome poor bargaining power and scale diseconomies for the fragmented, small, and marginal growers of natural rubber. Membership in these ...

Understanding the dynamics of social networks is crucial for comprehending how communities adapt to social, economic, and technological changes. This paper analyses the evolution of village social ...

In a context marked by many structural changes and high inequalities, longitudinal studies appear to be particularly useful and revealing in analysing the extent of socio-economic dynamics. This paper ...

Frugal technological activity through jugaad or frugal invention, collective and defensive technological strategies, or grassroots innovation can battle the lived experience of inequality, and perhaps ...

Drawing on longitudinal data from a Dalit-majority village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, change in household incomes is quantified and sources of income growth are identified. While household income has ...

The consolidation of agricultural lands by dominant socio-economic groups is discussed in the context of contemporary debate on the land question by foregrounding market-led land transfers as a driver ...

The rural economy and society have been in a period of transition. The transition is not only economic but also social and political. The last decade has seen rural areas witnessing several economic ...