Caste endogamy serves as a key mechanism for sustaining caste hierarchies, conferring upper-caste women a high ritual purity status along with certain material benefits (Velaskar 2016). These ...

In this context, Dalit memoirs have emerged as a powerful medium for self-assertion and the articulation of caste-based oppression, challenging Brahminical hegemony and amplifying silenced voices.

We expect trouble when the rule-following poster girl is drawn towards the affable new boy, Srinivasan (Kesav Binoy Kiron). Trouble could, predictably, brew from close quarters—Mira’s mother, Anila ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

India has also recognised the critical role higher education plays in realising the socio-economic goals and cultural and political aspirations of the people. India has set the goals of becoming a ...

Often, while “on the road,” I have experienced a state of mind that philosophers and clinicians alike have called melancholy—generally described as “pensive sadness” or “prolonged depression.” ...

Infants are widely recognised as the future citizens of any nation, embodying hope and potential. Yet, the unfortunate reality persists that one of the primary deficiencies within a country’s public ...

Findings from the initial years of the new series of Periodic Labour Force Surveys (PLFS) presented a dismal job situation. However, in the post-COVID-19 period, the surveys have been reporting a much ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

Over the last few weeks, several instances of “mistaken deportation” of Indian citizens to Bangladesh have been reported and rightly caused an alarm. The pattern that seems to be emerging is arrests ...