In India, despite the long-standing presence of the Registration of Births and Deaths (RBD) Act, enacted in 1969, the Civil Registration System (CRS) continues to suffer from systemic limitations that ...
The Ahmedabad Spinning and Weaving Company started the first mill in Ahmedabad in 1861 with 63 workers. While mills continued to be established periodically in the 19th century, it was due to the ...
A critical assessment of India’s three major demographic data systems—the Civil Registration System, the Sample Registration System, and the National Family Health Survey—is presented. It argues that ...
A critical assessment of India’s three major demographic data systems—the Civil Registration System, the Sample Registration System, and the National Family Health Survey—is presented. It argues that ...
The size and structure of this sector provide insight into women’s roles in the economy, highlighting both their contributions and the challenges they face in gaining formal recognition. Women ...
There are times when survival is success. This perspective must inform our assessment of the recently concluded summit of the BRICS grouping in New Delhi, hosted by the Government of India.There are ...
Carbonised small millet seeds made up 15% to 55% of all the seeds collected from three different ecological regions within the IVC. Scientists have observed certain biases in millet preferences during ...
While India’s judiciary may be structurally independent (as guaranteed under the Constitution), it does not guarantee independent functioning of judges who uphold the rule of law. A truly independent ...
The invention of the bomb—establishing an early nuclear monopoly—led to an over-militarisation of the Cold War conflict, and four decades of dangerous global tensions that eased only after the ...
August inflation in India hit a 20-month high, with food prices driving year-on-year retail inflation to 4.82%. Strikingly, fuel/power and manufactured products have also been seeing substantial price ...
Yet, as a substantial body of feminist economic scholarship has demonstrated, the conventional SNA production boundary systematically undervalues or altogether excludes the economic activities ...
Since 2000, cumulative FDI inflows have crossed $1 trillion by 2025, reflecting strong investor confidence, while rising ODI signals increasing corporate internationalisation. However, these headline ...