In Maharashtra, the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were an expressi on of the popular sentiment on political developments in the ...

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The Punjab 2024 elections campaign and the verdict exhibited both continuity and change in terms of the electoral trends, especially in the last decade. The coming years would determine whether Akali ...

Fire on the Ganges: Life among the Dead in Banaras by Radhika Iyengar, Gurugram: Fourth Estate, 2023; pp xvi+347, ₹599. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of ...

Dead in Banaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling by Ravi Nandan Singh, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp 163, ₹1,495. This book takes us into the world of the dead in the legendary city ...

Reena Singh ([email protected]) is with Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. Purvi Thangaraj ([email protected]) is with ICRIER, New Delhi.

The changes in the cropping pattern, the share of different crops in value of crop output, crop yield, and sources and determinants of agricultural growth in the Indian Himalayan region during the ...

The Biological Diversity (Amendment) Act, 2023, which has been heralded as a forward-looking legislative reform, aims to recalibrate the balance between biodiversity conservation and socio-economic ...