Table of Contents

Volume 53 Issue 1, March 2023

Social Change Annual Lecture

Ecosystem People, Biosphere People, Ecological Refugees
Madhav Gadgil

Comment
Barbara Harriss-White

Response
Madhav Gadgil

Social Change Golden Jubilee Lecture

Gender, Presence and Representation: Can Presence Alone Make for Effective Representation?
Bina Agarwal

Articles

Land and Asset Inequality Among Social Groups
Kiran Kumar
Prasanta Moharaj

The Making of Odia Identity: A Sociological Analysis of School Textbooks in Odisha
Aniruddha Naik
Nagaraju Gundemeda

Symposium—Decoding EWS Quota

Reservation for Economically Weaker Sections: The EWS Quota
M.P. Singh

Taking the EWS Quota Seriously: Is It Fair and Just?
Vidhu Verma

Effecting Equity and Equality of Opportunity in a Socially Diverse India
Abusaleh Shariff

EWS Quota: A Policy Against Evidence
Sunny Jose
Bheemeshwar Reddy A
Tati Sai Nikhil
Madadi Chetan Kodand Reddy


Commentary

Research During COVID-19: Precision Versus Indication
Sujit Kumar Mishra
Gujjeti Anudeep

Social Change Indicators

Nutritional Status in States of India
Surajit Deb

Review Essay

Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (Eds.), Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India
Kalpana Kannabiran

Book Reviews

Prashant K. Trivedi (Ed.), Land and Labour in Indian Agriculture: Discourses on Growth and Equity
Partha Saha

B.S. Sherin, Gendering Minorities: Muslim Women and the Politics of Modernity
Papia Sengupta

Anu Aneja (Ed)., Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings
Payal Nagpal

Nazima Parveen, Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity
Uzma Azhar

Nandita Devi, Bongol Bohu Dur [It Is a Long Way to Bengal]Antora Borah

Tribute

The Sharpest Gentle Challenger: My Friend Yogesh Puri (1940–2022)
Manoranjan Mohanty