The 1982–83 textile workers’ strike was a local symptom and an early episode in the political, economic, and social transformations that spanned the globe in the last quarter of the 20th century.

During this period, villages marked by fields, fishing communities and abattoirs in the central parts of Bombay, such as Parel, Byculla, Sion, Mahim, and Bandra—as seen in rare and crucial glimpses ...

The life of Basvant Giryappa Kamble (1938–2005), a Dalit textile worker in Mumbai’s Girangaon—mill district—is examined to highlight the intersection of caste and class in the labour movement.

The first sentence of the report expresses the hope that “Future historians may well decide that the crucial phenomenon of our times is the massive urbanisation that is engulfing the Third World” (NCU ...

It represents the collective understanding of Sarva Shramik Sanghatana. Uday Bhat (udaybhat203@gmail.com) is a Mumbai-based trade unionist associated with Sarva Shramik Sanghatana and All India ...

The purpose of the issue is not to “revisit” the strike for plain historical value, nor is it to romanticise or ossify the past by implying that the political was in the past or that it was the past ...

The new survey, which has collected information for 57,742 school students, is rather exhaustive and lists out the costs of schooling by the level of enrolment, ownership of institutions, and also ...

Maharashtra’s drought-prone agricultural hinterland is reeling under a paradoxical crisis of floods. More than 68 lakh hectares (ha) of kharif crops have been destroyed, amounting to nearly half of ...

It was in the first half of the first decade of the 2000s that most of the states adopted the fiscal responsibility legislations. This came after the large deficits experienced at the state level ...

This resilience was disrupted post green revolution when the nation embraced monoculture, focusing heavily on rice and wheat production, securing food security for its growing population.

Industrial capitalism was revolutionary in its fight to free Europe’s economies and parliaments from the hereditary privileges and vested interests that survived from feudalism. To make their ...

A CorrespondentThe central (CPCB) and state Pollution Control Boards (PCBs) are celebrating their silver jubilee anniversary during June 1999 to May 2000. The central board along with a number of ...