Popular sitcoms from the early 2000s normalise upper-caste Hindu identity as the cultural default, feeding into contemporary Hindutva-aligned victimhood discourses in Indian media and politics.

Van panchayats have facilitated collaborative forest management in India since the 1930s. Despite active involvement in forest-related movements and government policy promoting representation, women’s ...

A critic of colonial capitalist expansionism in the Malabar region, Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja envisaged a particular kind of society–nature equilibrium that has shaped modern Indian environmentalism.

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

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In the absence of new official poverty lines, the updated official Tendulkar Committee poverty lines for 2022–23 are provided, along with alternate estimates of poverty based on updated Rangarajan ...

The Madias, a particularly vulnerable tribal group in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli region and their fight for fundamental rights through democratic and constitutional means, is the focus of this article.

Critical Essays on Labour Codes, Labour Institutions and Labour Market Governance in the Post-Covid-19 times in India by K R Shyam Sundar, Delhi: Synergy Books India, 2023; pp 278, `1,380 (paperback).

The manner in which feminist theory intersects with animal studies in framing the discussion on animal sexual abuse is examined, particularly in the context of the substitution of the Indian Penal ...