Economic and Political Weekly

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Economic and Political Weekly
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The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) is a weekly

social sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust.[1] In January 2018, academic Gopal Guru was named the new Editor of the journal.[2] Guru will be Editor for a period of five years. The previous full-time editor was Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.[3] The Trust had earlier appointed Guha Thakurta as the new editor of the journal with effect from 1 April 2016.[4] His appointment came at a time when many social scientists were opposing the supposed removal of the previous editor C. Rammanohar Reddy, who resigned in January 2016[5] only to controversially end in 2017 with Guha Thakurta also resigning.[6]

Gopal Guru is currently at the Centre for Political Studies at the

Andre Beteille, Deepak Parekh, Romila Thapar, Rajeev Bhargava , Dipankar Gupta, and Shyam Menon.[10]

History

The journal was established in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and edited by Sachin Chaudhuri.[11] It obtained its current name in 1966.[12] It was edited by Krishna Raj for more than three decades[13] and is among the most prestigious scholarly journals in India,[14] having had contributions from many of the country's best known scholars.[13]

Past authors include

Andre Beteille, Ashok Gulati, and Nirupam Bajpai
.

Political position

The journal is known for its strong editorial stance with a "social conscience"

Emergency, as well as of state complicity in the 2002 Gujarat riots.[17]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

CAB Abstracts[18] and Scopus.[19]

Licensing

EPW has licensed its material for non-exclusive use to 3 content aggregators - Contify, Factiva and JSTOR.

Contify disseminates EPW content to

Gale Cengage, AcquireMedia and NewsBank
.

Factiva and JSTOR have EPW content on their databases for their registered users.

Controversy

In 2016, C. Rammanohar Reddy quit as editor in a controversial move which led to several academics expressing concern in an open letter,

Jean Dreze, resigning from the board.[21][22] Shortly after, his successor Paranjoy Guha Thakurta also quit in 2017 after a controversial article about the Adani Group was removed from the website amidst reasons that many felt were unclear or unjustified.[23][24] In its defence, the Trust posted a statement on the EPW website stating that Guha Thakurta had violated his position by responding to a legal notice sent by the Adani Group without informing the Trust.[25] This once again led to various scholars and commentators questioning the Sameeksha Trust that runs the journal.[26][27][28]

Eventually professor and scholar Gopal Guru was appointed as the new editor in January 2018.[29]

References

  1. ^ Guha, Ramachandra (December 2012). "Krishna Raj and the Economic and Political Weekly". The Caravan. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  2. ^ "Political Scientist Gopal Guru Appointed New Editor of EPW". The Wire. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  3. ^ Paranjoy Guha Thakurta indianexpress.com. 24 January 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016
  4. ^ "Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is new editor of EPW". Indian Express. 24 January 2016.
  5. ^ "EPW editor's exit: 101 academics write, Dreze quits board". Indian Express. 16 January 2016.
  6. ^ Dhasmana, Indivjal (19 July 2017). "EPW editor Guha Thakurta quits over differences with board". Business Standard India.
  7. ^ Guru, Gopal. "Gopal Guru Webpage". jnu.ac.in. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  8. ^ "EPW Letter's Page" (PDF). epw.in. 10 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  9. ^ Kishore, Roshan (6 February 2018). "Image of EPW Masthead". twitter.com. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  10. ^ "About Us". Economic and Political Weekly. 50 (23). 2015-06-05.
  11. ^ On Sachin Choudhuri - the founder of a unique magazine/journal (Sixty years ago) pragoti.in. Retrieved 16 September 2012 Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Calcutta Diary Ashok Mitra. Psychology Press, 1977 - Social Science - 206 pages
  13. ^ a b EPW readies for second innings business-standard.com. 4 July 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2014
  14. ISBN 978-0-389-20403-9
    .
  15. ^ EPW plans editions in Indian languages hindu.com. 31 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2014
  16. ISBN 9780521396929
    .
  17. ^ "Krishna Raj". The Guardian. London. 17 February 2004. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  18. CABI
    . Retrieved 2015-07-31.
  19. ^ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2015-07-31.
  20. ^ "A Letter to the Sameeksha Trust, from the 'EPW Community'". TheWire.in. 15 January 2016.
  21. ^ "EPW editor Ram Reddy to step down from the prestigious journal after a decade in the chair". Scroll.in. 13 January 2016.
  22. ^ "Former EPW Editor Ram Reddy's 2016, Letter to the Sameeksha Trust". Newsclick. 21 July 2017.
  23. ^ "Adani Group 'SLAPP' Pushes EPW Editor Out of His Job". TheWire.in. 18 July 2017.
  24. ^ "Paranjoy Guha Thakurta quits as EPW editor". The Hindu. 18 July 2017.
  25. ^ "Statement issued by the Sameeksha Trust: 2 August 2017". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. 2 August 2017.
  26. ^ "Reinventing EPW". The Indian Express. 3 August 2017.
  27. ^ "Murdering a Great Journal, One Editor at a Time". TheWire.in. 8 August 2017.
  28. ^ "An Open Letter to EPW's Trustees from Partha Chatterjee". TheWire.in. 31 July 2017.
  29. ^ "Political Scientist Gopal Guru Appointed New Editor of EPW". TheWire.in. 5 January 2018.

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