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August 28, 2010

[EDITORIALS]

Niyamgiri Triumph

A victory for the enforcement of the rights of adivasis, but does this really mark a new beginning?  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Expanding Adoption Rights

The legal rights of women on adoption have been enlarged, but the adoption process needs deeper review.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[COMMENTARY]

Curfewed in Kashmir: Voices from the Valley

  Aaliya Anjum

Poets, lawyers, writers, activists and doctors speak about the current crisis in Kashmir and what daily life in a regime of curfews and urban unrest means to them.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[PERSPECTIVES]

Of Omissions and Commissions:India’s Competition Laws

  Aditya Bhattacharjea

In 2009, India repealed its 40-year-old Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, and brought into force most sections of the 2002 Competition Act  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[SPECIAL ARTICLES]

Rethinking Inequality: Dalits in Uttar Pradesh in the Market Reform Era

  Devesh Kapur , Chandra Bhan Prasad , Lant Pritchett , D Shyam Babu

In the debates surrounding the consequences of India’s shift from a state-led to a market-oriented economic model, the issue of caste and caste practices, particularly for dalits, has been an empirical weak link  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[COMMENTARY]

Subnational Public Finance in Times of Recession

  Lekha Chakraborty , Kausik K Bhadra

The recession of 2008-09 resulted in a decline in fiscal transfers and stagnant revenue buoyancy, compressing the fiscal space of the states  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Averting Total Collapse: The NPT Review Conference

  Ninan Koshy

Considering the fact that the 2005 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference was a failure, the 2010 conference can at least claim to have partially rehabilitated the non-proliferation mechanism of the treaty, however weak it may be, thus averting  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[SPECIAL ARTICLES]

Revisiting the City: The Relevance of Urban Sociology Today

  N Jayaram

Events since the 1990s, with the advent of globalisation and the information and communication technology revolution in particular, have had a profound impact on cities around the world and have rejuvenated academic interest in the urban question  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Issues of Competition in the Indian Server Market

  Rajat Kathuria , Subhasis Bera

Very little is known about the extent and nature of competition in the high-end server and associated services market in India  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[DISCUSSION]

Identity and the UIDAI: A Response

  R S Sharma

The absence of an identifi cation infrastructure, under which every Indian has a unique identifi cation number, has been one of the biggest barriers for the poor in accessing welfare and social services effectively  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


[BOOK REVIEWS]

Assessing Muslim Disadvantage

  Steven Wilkinson

Handbook of Muslims in India: Empirical and Policy Perspectives edited by Rakesh Basant and Abusaleh Shariff  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


Categorisation: A Poisonous Proposition

  Anand Teltumbde

Dividing Dalits: Writings on Sub-Categorisation of Scheduled Castes edited by Yagati Chinna Rao  [Abstract]  [Full Article]


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