From 1980 to 2016, South Asian nations experienced the most rapid rise in inequality compared to other regions worldwide, with the top 10% of the population holding an astonishing 55% of the total ...

Women play a crucial role in the sector, not only through their direct participation in the fisheries activities but also by undertaking reproductive labour, which includes managing households, ...

The streets of India have changed over the last decade. As Mashal and Kumar (2023) note, Today, most street vendors have a unique biometric identification (Aadhaar); their biometrics are linked to ...

The revival of Mithila art has a curious history. It was mainly due to the work of colonial art historians that the artistic style drew the attention of the world. However, the historiography of the ...

Some viewed it as a courageous move that would lead to significant macro­economic expansion, while others saw it as a purely political move to shore up the ruling party’s weakening middle-class ...

The book contains selections from two late med­ieval vernacular Ramayanas by Madhava Kandali (14th century) and Sankaradeva (16th century) and their translations into English, a first for these texts.

Every voter in Bihar has now been declared ineligible to vote unless they prove themselves eligible. On 24 June 2025, the ECI initiated the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar, purportedly to ...

These reports, compiled within six months through extensive consultations with parents, teachers, and civil society, address critical issues in Telangana’s education landscape. The three part reports ...

In the preamble to the course, the stated aim of PPE is “to promote the study of the structure, and the philosophical, political, and economic principles, of modern society.” While the PPE course ...

In this context, Madhu Trivedi presents Revisiting Hindavi Sufi Romances: Late Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries. This book explores the sociopolitical landscape of the period through the medium ...

No matter how the situation changes, as guests, friends, and brothers, we will always stand by you.Tagore affectionately said these words to young students on 14 April 1924 during a visit to the ...

Earlier anthropological and sociological studies on marriage have majorly focu­sed on the formal nature of kinship norms, neglecting the dynamic and fluid nature of marital relations (Palriwala and ...