Editorials
Neorealists on both sides have yet again constrained India-China relations within the old rules of the game.
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Commentary
The political agitations led by Imran Khan and Tahir-ul-Qadri in Pakistan for the past few weeks had been billed as inquilab for a "Naya Pakistan". Even though they did not, and could not have lived up to their promise of revolutionary...
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Commentary
Most countries have demonstrated some success in responding to disasters. Does it imply that as a species we have learnt how to handle disasters, and that disaster risk management has fi nally come of age? As discussions on the formulation of the...
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Commentary
Does popular understanding of disaster lead the idea of disaster management prevention and mitigation in the field? How does it differ in cases of flash and recurrent disaster? Is there any need to change either plan or strategy to mitigate the...
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Special Articles
In this paper, we propose to reconcile the controversial debate on Muslim "vote banks" in India by shifting the spatial focus from statewide assessments to the level of constituencies. With the example of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh in the 2014...
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National Election Study 2014 / Special Issues
A clear majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha and its spread across most states in the 2014 general elections marks a departure from the electoral outcomes of almost a quarter century. The BJP's success was made possible,...
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National Election Study 2014 / Special Issues
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party put together an unprecedented social coalition: in addition to the upper castes and Other Backward Classes, it received support from the scheduled tribes and scheduled castes. We argue...
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National Election Study 2014 / Special Issues
The Congress Party's defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections reflected not just its failure to retain its vote shares of the previous polls in 2004 and 2009, but also the lack of a clear social profile of its voters. Most social sections had...
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National Election Study 2014 / Special Issues
This paper attempts to explain why some regional parties flourished and others fizzled out in the 16th general elections to the Lok Sabha. To explain this variation, it makes a distinction between regionally-located parties and regionalist...
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National Election Study 2014 / Special Issues
How did the middle- and upp er-middle-class voters vote in the 2014 elections? Apart from purely numerical effects, the middle class is electorally more impactful relative to its size because of its human capital and opinion-shaping character....
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National Election Study 2014 / Special Issues
The 2014 Lok Sabha elections saw an effort by the Bharatiya Janata Party to project leadership as a key strategy in its campaign. The response of the electorate provided important indications of the effect of leadership on the outcome of...
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National Election Study 2014 / Special Issues
Analysing the National Election Study data from 1996 to 2014, this paper examines the effect of media exposure on Indian elections to reach four main conclusions. First, in the last two decades, Indian electorates have been more exposed to the...
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Editorials
Where is the current foreign portfolio investment rush leading the Indian economy to?
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Editorials
Will Scotland's failed push for independence lead to fundamental change in the UK?
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Book Reviews
Growth or Development; Which Way Is Gujarat Going? edited by Indira Hirway, Amita Shah and Ghanshyam Shah (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2014; pp 608, Rs 1,395.
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Book Reviews
Poverty amidst Prosperity: Essays on the Trajectory of Development in Gujarat edited by Atul Sood (New Delhi: Aakar Books), 2012; pp 283, Rs 595.
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Special Articles
In the clash between austerity and Keynesian stimulus paradigms in the advanced capitalist economies in general and the United Kingdom in particular, this paper argues that in the era of global climate change and global warming, merely proposing...
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Special Articles
With the machine tool industry as the reference point, this paper builds a vintage model to demonstrate that the economic lifespan of machines is inversely related to the rate of technological progress. Further, the rate of technical progress in...
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Notes
The proposed Rangarajan method on measurement of poverty in India borrows elements from three earlier methods - those of Alagh, Lakdawala and Tendulkar. An important departure in the Rangarajan method is to compute the poverty line commodity...
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Commentary
U R Ananthamurthy was a writer, public intellectual, a philosopher, a keeper of public conscience and much more. The complexity of Ananthamurthy was that he belonged to multiple worlds and was a critical insider in all of them.
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Discussion
S S Sangwan's (EPW, 26 July 2014) refutation of the Nachiket Mor Committee report, based on a survey in rural Punjab which fi nds that rural residents prefer commercial banks to regional banks, is contested here. It is argued here that...
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