Once the reach of education remains circumscribed only by its functional role in the formation of human capital, which, by definition, has little significance beyond its instrumentality in production for market and profit, it comes under the direct purview and concerns of manufacturers,...

There is an incessant flow of technical innovations for newer and newer consumer goods and gadgets in our contemporary times. Even though technology has benefitted modern civilization through major scientific inventions in industry, medicine, health, energy, agronomy there are some market-driven...

Ignoring historical arguments on issues such as market, political economy, capital, and labour has great potential danger. The currently pervasive connotation of ‘liberalisation’ to mean virtually only the freeing of private ‘market’ from ‘normative’ social regulations, looks rather...

The ‘market’ – mostly referred to by the broad term ‘changing times’ – has increasingly been allowed to pervade humanity’s profoundest pillars, namely, objective reasoning, rationality, sensibilities, and philosophy. The distinctiveness and distance...

The paper examines the present condition of tribals in India with a demographic perspective. Construction of a long-term demographic perspective on India’s tribal population rests on the premise that aggregation over diverse tribal groups is valid not only in statistical and quantitative...

Amidst massive ethnographical and anthropological literature on India’s tribes, patterns of their demographic behaviour (e.g. fertility and mortality) have received relatively little attention. However studies on tribal demographic behaviour are not only possible in the past historical...

Left coalition ruled West Bengal for uninterrupted three decades. The study reveals that despite ruling for such a long period the state still lags behind in eradication of problems like poverty, as compared to other Indian states. This paper seeks a clue to this by comprehensively evaluating...

The present paper aims at driving home a hitherto-neglected and perhaps often muted (but important) point, namely, that the confusions and identity crisis that had gripped development economics in the 1980s. This was mainly due to its perennial vulnerability, unlike other branches of economics,...