Commenting on the general election results, we had noted a trend of the relative decline of the ruling party but emphasised further that the moment of the ascendance of the opposition cannot arrive on ...

The likely geopolitical effects of the Russia–Ukraine war include a reorientation of Russia away from the West and the creation of a group of countries that are unwilling to be a part of the global ...

The National Mobile Monitoring System application is examined two years after its deployment to understand its impact on MGNREGA. Unpacking the app’s design and features, the user experience ...

A policy for Punjab agriculture has been long overdue given that it has been facing an agrarian crisis for the last 30 years. Many attempts were made in the past which did not fructify into a policy.

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

An Indian Story edited by Shailaja Menon and Sandhya Rao, Madhya Pradesh: Eklavya Foundation, 2024; pp 424, `424.

The exuberance among the Congress party’s supporters has much to do with the baseline expectation, which had plummeted after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s thumping victory in December 2023 assembly ...

The intensifying fusion of political and economic power in India is discussed. Employing data on the wealth and background of politicians, it is shown that over the last 20 years, India’s politicians ...

Through a consistent surge in their salience and distinguished by their autonomy, female voters have become an indispensable constituency in Indian electoral democracy in recent decades. Through a ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s election propaganda is surveyed with a focus on the election speeches given by Narendra Modi. The empirical finding is that campaign speeches given by the Prime Minister ...

India has had a dramatic scale-up in the use of technology for welfare delivery, especially in the direct benefit transfer of cash and in-kind benefits. Technology disintermediates traditional ...

Moulding the diversity of Indian society into a cohesive nation based on the core values of Hindu nationalism is the main ideological plank of the Bharatiya Janata Party. However, in contrast with the ...