Economic and Political Weekly
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The Economic and Political Weekly is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all social sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust. In January 2018, academic Gopal Guru was named the new Editor of the journal. Guru will be Editor for a period of five years. The previous full-time editor was Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The Trust had earlier appointed Guha Thakurta as the new editor of the journal with effect from 1 April 2016. His appointment came at a time when many social scientists were opposing the supposed removal of the previous editor C. Rammanohar Reddy, who resigned in January 2016 only to controversially end in 2017 with Guha Thakurta also resigning. Source
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| Scope | National |
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| Language | English, Kannada, Tamil |
| Country | India |
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Search ArticlesThe Poor We Choose to See
Bibtex Endnote RIS Google Scholar A Google Image search for "poverty in India" returns a narrow set of images: rural women, children, slums. This essay asks who is missing from that picture — gig workers, migrants, tribals, sex workers, prisoners, and many more — and argues that the gap is not one of representation but of measurement.
What India Needs to Eliminate Childhood TB by 2035
India has set itself an ambitious tuberculosis (TB) elimination target, and most of the policy conversation around it focuses, understandably, on the adult burden that dominates the national numbers and the resource debates that follow. Children come up mostly as beneficiaries of the wider effort—expected to gain automatically as adult transmission falls—rather than as a population that needs its own policy attention.
Context as Lens or Verdict?
Over-contextualisation risks transforming reflexivity into an endpoint rather than an analytic aid, potentially foreclosing inquiry rather than deepening it. Some academic encounters disappear as soon as the room empties. Others stay. More than eight months ago, I was presenting my doctoral research at a departmental seminar, expecting questions about what I had found and how I had reached it. I was speaking through the logic of my method when the first response arrived.
Politics, Ethnonationalism, Language
Walking on Shifting Terrains Despite hate speech branding them as “intruders,” Bengali Muslims in Assam face severely restricted social mobility and have very little opportunity for economic advancement. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s thumpingvictory in the state assembly polls extends far beyond the number of seats or the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) vote percentage in the recent hustings. In the not-so-distant past, Assamese identity served as the primary political driving force.
Multiple Pathways of the BJP’s Expansion in Rural West Bengal
How does the Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral support emerge in rural West Bengal where Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s organisational presence, temple-centred mobilisation, and party infrastructure remain limited or absent? Using long-term ethnographic engagement in two villages in Birbhum and Murshidabad, supplemented by 2026 polling-station-level electoral data, it engages Suman Nath’s account of Hindutva’s organisational-cultural expansion.
Women and Work
Revisiting Inequality Issues in the Informal Sector Gender differences within the informal labour market, where outcomes are generally poorer than in the formal sector owing to limited protection and regulation, are examined. The paper hypothesises that women are more disadvantaged than men even within this vulnerable segment.
Measuring Global Production in an Interconnected World
Statistical Challenges and Implications for Emerging Economies The fragmentation of production across national borders has challenged conventional systems of national accounting and trade statistics. Drawing on the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Guide to Measuring Global Production (2015) and recent revisions to the 2025 System of National Accounts and the balance of payments manual, this paper examines the conceptual and statistical issues involved in measuring global production.
Reimagining Gender Budgeting Framework in India
Linking Fiscal Outlays and Gendered Outcomes India’s gender budgeting framework is re-examined after two decades of implementation. It argues for an input-output-outcome framework that links fiscal allocations to gender gaps and introduces a dynamic feedback mechanism. While the existing framework has established institutional foundations through the Gender Budget Cells, allocations alone are insufficient to address gender disparities.
A New Era of Geoeconomics
Towards the end of the Cold War, the United States responded to the emergence of Germany and Japan as geoeconomic challengers through trade, investment and financial measures, marking the first era of geoeconomic contestation. China’s rise as a geoeconomic power, after the transatlantic financial crisis (2008–09), elicited a similar response during Trump-1, marking the second era.
Beyond Heroes and Villains
Reading V P Menon in the Fractured Times The Transfer of Power in India by V P Menon, with an Introduction by Partha Chatterjee, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2025; pp viii+612, ₹1,415. Republishing V P Menon’s The Transfer of Power in India is a great opportunity to reread India’s independence from constitutional and bureaucratic perspectives. The book was originally published in 1957. Post independence, Menon served as secretary of the Government of India in the Ministry of State.