Deepali Pant Joshi

The relationship between financial development and economic growth is well documented in the economic development literature. More recently, the debate has expanded to include financial inclusion as a necessary condition for sustaining equitable growth…


Reviewed by: Sirjjan Preet
Raka Ray

As libraries in most universities in India are in decline, books unavailable and institutes out of reach, there is a fear that many of the most incisive and important articles written by scholars get lost to the new generation of scholarship…


Reviewed by: Anuradha Chenoy
Sarah Hodges

There has been a huge academic industry on Kerala’s demographic transition.Birth rates in Kerala began to decline in the second half of the 20th century despite little urbanization, industrialization, and economic growth—key factors that had led to demographic transition in the West in the 19th century…


Reviewed by: Mohan Rao
Mridula Mukherjee

This volume of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru covers the period of two months from November 1957 till December 1957. Its relevance is two fold. One, it contains enough data to throw light on some important facets of Nehru’s life and politics. Two, like earlier volumes on the 1950s, this too has a contemporaneity. Many of the issues that Nehru talked about and engaged with are still with us in some form or the other, some unresolved and some unresolvable…


Reviewed by: Salil Misra