Migration

Southward Ho! Demographic Change, the North-South Divide and Internal Migration in India

There are indeed demographic and development differences between the North and the South, but concerns about labour migration to the South are not warranted since the movement of labour is an…
▶29-Aug-2024
Chetan Choithani, Arslan Wali Khan
Book
Book Review

Floating in an Ocean of Laws

Indians displaced across South and Southeast Asia between the 1940s and the 1960s used the law to make claims of the new states emerging from the end of colonialism.
▶17-Jun-2024
Tarangini Sriraman

Producing the Migrant Myth

Assam's development discourse is embedded in wilful ignorance of history, ecology, and migration patterns. This ignorance feeds narratives of land-hungry migrants usurping land and seeking to…
▶28-Oct-2021
Gorky Chakraborty, Shofiul Alom Pathan

How Should We Remember the Violence and Suffering of Partition?

"What does it mean then to remember the ‘horror’ of partition at a time when identities are so polarised. Do we remember only what was done to us, leaving out all that we did to others and to…
▶13-Oct-2021
Urvashi Butalia
Review Article
Book
Book Review

In the Name of the Nation

Sanjib Baruah's new book is 'a prescient ledger' of what Northeast India has become and at the same time 'a cautionary tale' of where muscular policy may take us in the rest…
▶30-Jul-2020
Sanjay Barbora

Choosing Begging over Paid Labour

Beggars are usually ignored on the streets and questions are asked about why they do not work. Many have indeed worked as paid labour and then each for her own reasons has chosen begging as the…
▶25-Nov-2019
Sabina Yasmin Rahman

The Visible and Invisible Barriers to Indian Women Working

Cultural factors do not explain why so few women are in paid work. The demands of housework and the need to care for the elderly limit the ability of many women to work outside. When they do look for…
▶30-Jul-2019
Ashwini Deshpande