Despite the promise in the Constitution of India (1950) to establish universal elementary education within a decade, for many years this goal received neither the attention of politicians nor the resources for its achievement. This began to change in the early 1990s with several innovative...

This article analyses the "vulnerable segments" of the urban labour markets - meaning particularly the category of "unprotected wage labour" - in Indonesia, India and Pakistan. It reviews the "macro" evidence of population censuses and labour force surveys with the objective of tracing trends in...

Introduction / Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali -- Power of business in contemporary India -- Economic liberalization and the structural power of business in India / Kanta Murali -- India's new porous state : blurred boundaries and the evolving business-state relationship /...