The Question of 'How' Rashmi Sharma The question of how elementary education can and should be made universal has not received the attention' it deserves. Two issues need to be highlighted. Firstly...
Review Of Agriculture
Tirthankar Roy Science and the Raj, 1857-1905 by Deepak Kumar; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995; pp xiv+273, Rs 475. THE book describes the study of science in colonial India, and conceptualises...
Renana Jhabvala In the context of the changes in the world economy and the decline of the welfare state, there is considerable debate on the need to provide social security to the informal sector...
State, Capital or Husband? Bombay Assembly Debates on Maternity Benefit Bill, 1929 Amrita Chhachhi The discussions on the Bombay Maternity Benefit Bill, 1929, have focused so far on the needs of...
Unorganised Sector Ramesh C Datta Neglect of social opportunities due to lack of adequate progress in social security, has been detrimental to the economic and social development of India. In order...
Plastic Processing Industry Nandita Shah Nandita Gandhi This paper based on a study of the plastic processing industry explores how the newly introduced economic reforms and in particular industrial...
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay Wilima Wadhwa In this paper the authors have analysed, at the disaggregated level of 2-digit industries, the changing pattern of labour productivity. labour costs and total...
Emerging Patterns in Andhra Pradesh M Krishnaiah The nature of changes in the relations between agricultural labourers and employers forms a central issue in agrarian transformation. This paper aims...
Rural India A Review of Evidence Jeemol Unni Overall the beginning of a structural change in employment in the Indian economy is visible, A slow transfer of labour away from agriculture and toward...
Transition in Uttar Pradesh Jens Lerche It is fallacious to conceptualise the differences in agricultural scenario of east and west Uttar Pradesh in terms of ' semi-feudal stagnation' and '...
An Inter-Regional Analysis in Andhra Pradesh P Prudhvikar Reddy In Andhra Pradesh, the HYV technology in paddy crop which was initially confined to canal irrigated areas has later spread to other...
A Gender Perspective on Land and Livelihood Bina Agarwal Not only has the pace of agrarian transformation in India been such as to leave the vast majority of the population still dependent on land-...
Impact of Liberalisation on Labour Market in India What Do Facts from NSSO's 50th Round Show? Sudha Deshpande Lalit Deshpande The objective of this paper is to highlight the favourable and...
Past literature shows that technical change in agriculture is determined by non-price factors like government expenditure on R and D and infrastructure. But more recent literature also considers...
