A discussion of the resistance of the local tribal population against the construction of the Polavaram dam on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, the main feature of which is the involvement of various...
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With the growing threat of food insecurity and a largely erratic rainfall pattern, Kerala, despite its very high rate of annual precipitation, has embarked on a series of large budget irrigation...
The International Monetary Fund package for Greece is likely to make things worse, not better, for the beleaguered economy. And as other European economies show similar signs of a sovereign debt...
There is as yet no agreement on the status of people displaced by climate change and the term "climate refugees" has no place in international law. While refugees are supposed to be people who cross...
Primitive tribal communities like the Chuktia Bhunjias living in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa continue to practise traditional agriculture using bio-cultural resources. Policymakers must...
Residential welfare associations are a window of opportunity to consolidate loose networks of local associations engaged in activities around urban services. They have changed the dynamics of urban...
An exponential growth in bilateral investment treaties, accompanied by an increasing number of investor-state investment disputes has given rise to two global issues. One, the relationship between...
This article examines the movement against the construction of the Hirakud dam in Orissa. It is evident that the domestic resistance to the project was variously compromised by nationalist rhetoric,...
Theories of structural change suggest that the share of the agricultural sector will fall in course of economic growth, while agricultural incomes are expected to rise. This paper examines the...
Engendered Freedom: Partition and East Bengali Migrant Women Archit Basu Guha-Choudhury Partition displaced millions, who left their homes in search of their religious identity and traversed a...
There are certain shortcomings to using econometric analysis to look for spillover effects in the Indian manufacturing industry. This article presents the results of a case study approach. The...
Telecom service providers are required to obtain a licence before starting any kind of service in India. They pay a certain percentage of their revenue as a licence fee to the government on a...
In India, for many empirical questions, states have been the standard unit of analysis and they are a natural starting point for research using official data sources because state governments set...
The findings of a small sample survey of manufacturing enterprises in the Delhi region regarding perceptions of the impact of the economic reforms of 1990s show that most firms felt that the reforms...
The Ganga continues to be threatened by environmentally unsustainable development projects, of which the Ganga Expressway is the most recent example. But the campaign to save the Ganga is seemingly...
