Thambimar Kathai exemplifies “history from below” by shifting the focus from the glorified narratives of elites to the marginalised voices often overlooked in official records.

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Banners in Puducherry highlight Tamil identity, celebrating milestones while showcasing social standing and cultural values.

India’s agriculture growth has shown a steady acceleration over the last two decades, reaching historically high levels in the last 10 years. However, large variations remain in the performance of ...

This article examines if BRICS could become the catalyst for the transition to a multipolar world order. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of contemporary ...

M T Vasudevan Nair balances reality and creativity with only a blurred line between how he represents Valluvanadu and how the place used to function with its social and cultural politics in the first ...

Only an effective industrial policy that boosts manufacturing will ensure benefits from free trade agreements.

The sugar industry in India has four main sectors the co-operative, corporation and state sectors and the private sector. The co-operative sector dominates the sugar economy. Of late, the co-operative ...

A quantitative measure of the value of unpaid household activities in India is attempted. The findings reveal that in 2022–23, women spent an average of 4.6 hours on domestic chores, which is more ...

In the interwar years (1919–39), macroeconomics was at the forefront of attention of both thinkers as well as policymakers. This paper focuses on Hawtrey, one of the major economists of that period, ...

While agriculture contributes 18% to gross domestic product, the budget’s allocation is skewed towards welfare measures, like food and fertiliser subsidies and MGNREGS, which may not be the most ...

As per the Union Budget 2024–25, the fiscal deficit will be calibrated to ensure a declining path for union debt. Following the approach in Das and Ghate (2022), we calibrate the GDP growth rate and ...