Cover March 06, 2010	[EDITORIALS] Budget 2010: The State Takes a Back Seat Should fiscal consolidation take priority over everything else?  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The Economic Survey 2009-10 seeks to promote business confidence and the pet ideas of the finance ministry.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Throughout the cold war, the Pakistani left and ethno-nationalists struggled together against the dominant military establishment backed by American imperialism  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Although informal settlements are proliferating in cities across low- and middle-income nations, there is 40 years of experience to draw on in upgrading these “slum” settlements  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

One of the striking features of the recent period has been the diffusion of manufacturing and service activities from the countries of the core to the periphery  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The central government’s policies have inadvertently de-emphasised environmental health and other preventive public health services in India since the 1950s  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Food prices in the immediate future can be controlled only through large imports. Wheat stocks are adequate but rice stocks are not  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The Mumbai film factory has transformed itself from an escapist to a more insidious entity, and the State now conspicuously approves of its “messages”  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

In response to the review of their book, Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (23 January 2010), the authors argue that the review misrepresented their arguments and distorted the politics which they were foregrounding.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The term “Plains Tribal” was first used by the colonial rulers in Assam to lump together a diverse set of people defined in semi-geographical and semi-sociological terms  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

There is an ongoing debate about the rationality of price controls in a regime where drugs can be manufactured through alternative processes as was the case in India before 2005  [Abstract]  [Full Article]