2025/June
Regimes of Exclusion and Rights Discourse: India and Its Diasporas
Jinee Lokaneeta and Sangay Mishra

2024/June
Anti-Caste Movements and Caste
Janaki Abraham, Dhivya Janarthanan

2023/June
Nationalist Urbanisms on the National Peripheries
Ghazala Jamil

2022/June
Navigating Hyper- Precarity: Im(mobilities) during the Covid Pandemic in India
Priya Deshingkar

2021/March
Satyagraha in the Twenty First Century
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned /Manoranjan Mohanty (Editor)

2020/March
Women’s World of Work: Paid and Unpaid
Vibhuti Patel

2014/December
Urban Growth and Exclusion of the Poor
K. B. Saxena, Sonali Mukherjee

2013/June
Universal Health Care
K B Saxena, Imrana Qadeer and Arathi P M

2012/December
Clinical Legal Education
N Vasanthi

2011/December
Women and Education
Janaki Rajan

2008/December
Displacement and Rehabilitation in Orissa
Hari Mohan Mathur

2007/December
Gendered Lives: Diverse Domains, Shared Concerns
Saraswati Raju

2006/September
Perspectives on Globalisation and Education
Ravi Kumar

2006/March
Special Resettlement Issue
Hari Mohan Mathur

2003/June- September
Emerging Paradigms in Environmental Conservation and Management
Ghazala Shahabuddin

2001/March-June
Ecological Responsibility
Prodipto Roy

2000/September-December
Social Aspects of Economic Development
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

2000/March-June
Urban Poverty in India
Sabir Ali

1999/March-June
Ageing-Issues & Challenges
N K Chadha

1999/September-December
Studies on Jharkhand-II
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1998/June-September
Participatory Pathways
Rajiv Balakrishnan

1998/March
Grassroots Governance-Perspectives on Panchayati Raj
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1997/September-December
Child Labour in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1997/March-June
Endangered Tribal of India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1996/September-December
Population Policies and Reproductive Rights-Emerging Issues in Post-ICPD
M E Khan

1996/March
People’s Participation and Sustainable Development
Neela Mukherjee

1995/December
25 Years 1971-1995
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1995/June-September
Girl Child in India
Promilla Kapur

1995/March
Environment and People’s Participation
C Rajyalakshmi

1994/September-December
Population Policy After CAIRO
M E Khan, Prodipto Roy

1994/ March-June
Studies on Jharkhand
R Sharan

1993/December
Status of Tribal Women in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1993/June-September
Status of the Tribal in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1993/March
Studies on Women in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1992/June
Indian Women: Perceptions and Problems
S N Ranade

1992/March
Environment and Development
Prodipto Roy

1992/ September
Studies on Population
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1991/September
Studies on Rural India
Prodipto Roy

1991/June
Status on Tribals in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1991/March
Studies on Health
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1990/September
Children in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1990/June
Status of Women and Employment
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1990/March
Politics and People’s Participation
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1989/December
Silver Jubilee Number: Twentyfive years of CSD
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1989/September
Scheduled Caste in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1989/June
Education and Development
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1989/March
Rural Development
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1988/December
Urbanisation and Slums in India
HU Bijlani

1988/September
Indian Women : Tensions and Conflicts
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1988/June
Social Tensions in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1988/March
Tribal Studies in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1987/December
Urbanisation & Industrialisation
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1987/September
Health & Population
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1987/June
Cooperative and Rural Development
Neelambar Hatti, Bjorn Gyllstrom

1987/March
Health & Family Planning
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1986/June-September
Aspects of Social Change in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1986/March
Studies on Children in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1985/September
Towards an Educational Policy
S C Bhatia

1985/June
Studies on Women in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1984/December
Dimensions of Rural India-II
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1984/September
Dimensions of Health in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1983/December
Communication for Development
Binod Chand Agrawal

1983/September
Dimensions of Rural India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1982/September
Crime in India
Mohammad Zahir Khan

1982/March
Dimensions of Urbanization in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1981/September-December
Dimensions of Family Planning in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1981/March
Dimensions of Poverty in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1980/March-June
Social Disadvantage and Education in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Arun Kumar Ghosh (Honorary Editor)

1972/December
Slums and Housing
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Kamla Mankekar (Editor)

1972/September
Poverty/Social Security
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Kamla Mankekar (Editor)

1972/June
Youth Unrest
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Kamla Mankekar (Editor)

1972/March
Women and Law in India
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Kamla Mankekar (Editor)

1971/December
Nutrition & Population
Guest Editor not specifically mentioned/ Kamla Mankekar (Editor)

1. Social Change Golden Jubilee Lecture by Professor Gopal Guru on “Migration- A Moral Protest” (22 February, 2019)

2. Social Change Golden Jubilee Lecture by Professor Uma Chakravarti on “Home to the Borders: Violence against Women, Impunity and Resistance” (24 February, 2020)

3. Social Change Golden Jubilee Lecture by Professor G.N. Devy on “Thinking of Crime: The State, Migrant Population and the Missing Justice“(22 Feb 2021)

4. Social Change Golden Jubilee Lecture by Professor Bina Agarwal on “Gender, Presence and Representation “(22 February 2022)

5. Social Change Annual Lecture by Professor Madhav Gadgil on “Ecosystem people, biosphere people, ecological refugees.” (23 January 2023)

6. Social Change Annual Lecture by Professor Barbara Harriss-White on “Gold in India’s Social Development” (6 March 2024)

7. Social Change Annual Lectureby Professor Krishna Kumar on “Social Change as an Object of Educational Inquiry” (5 March 2025)

Table of Contents
Volume 55 Issue 1, March 2025

Articles

Affirmative Action in New India: Evaluation of Caste-Based Reservation Policy and Debate Around Economic Criteria

Gautam Kumar
Minaketan Behera

Gender Disparity and Rural–Urban Divide in Literacy in Punjab

Jagmohan Singh

The Making of an Open Defecation-Free Village: Social Reality of the Swachh Bharat Mission in Tribal Rajasthan

Krishna Kant Yadav
Chakraverti Mahajan

An Alternative Index for Measuring Financial Inclusion: A Study of Scheduled Tribes in Kerala

Jins Varkey
Jomon Mathew
K. Sujathan

Mental Health Problems Among Migrant Labourers in India

Sangeeta Yadav
Kumar Ravi Priya
Arvind K. Sinha

Human Trafficking Tier Rankings: The Effects of Women in Government

Cassandra E. DiRienzo
Jayoti Das

Perspective

Reflections on the Vision of Assessment in NEP 2020

Ritesh Khunyakari
Shikha Takker

Social Change Indicators

Essentials of Social Sector Expenditure in States of India

Surajit Deb

Review Article

‘The Optimism of the Intellect’: The Wor(l)ds of the Writerly Teacher Upendra Baxi

Kalpana Kannabiran

Book Reviews

Zoya Hasan and Avishek Jha, When People Protest: Mobilising for Equal Citizenship in India

Amir Ali

Amen Jaffer and Mashal Saif (Eds.), State and Subject Formation in South Asia

Ekta Singh

Ashok Pankaj, Lohia ke Sapno ka Bharat: Bhartiya Samajwad ki Ruprekha [India of Lohia’s Dreams: Contours of Indian Socialism] (Hindi)

Manish K Jha

Table of Contents
Volume 55 Issue 2, June 2025

Special Issue: Regimes of Exclusion and Rights Discourse: India and Its Diasporas

Guest Editors: Jinee Lokaneeta and Sangay Mishra

Introduction

Rethinking Rights in Regimes of Exclusion

Jinee Lokaneeta
Sangay Mishra

Articles

Prison Matters: On Women, Prisons, and the Pandemic

Pratiksha Baxi

Locked-In and Locked-Down Lives: Women’s Carceral Recollections of Quotidian and Pandemic Times

Sharmila Purkayastha

Routine Police Violence and the Pandemic: A Call for Rethinking Citizenship and Rights

Jinee Lokaneeta
Guillermina Seri

Uneven Land: Territorial Differentiation in Citizenship Law in India

Darshana Mitra

The Overseas Citizens of India: Law, Lives, and Institutional Practices

Anupama Roy
Ujjwal Kumar Singh

Automatic Termination of Citizenship Under Indian Law: How India’s Legal Structure Makes Citizens Stranger to Their Own Motherland

Saahas Arora

New Cartographies of Belonging and Exclusion in the United Arab Emirates

Manal Nadeem
Neha Vora

Book Reviews

Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia, How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners

Saumya Dadoo

Rupal Oza, Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India

Neetika Vishwanath

Sahana Ghosh, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh–India Borderlands

Mahuya Bandyopadhyay

Soibam Haripriya (Ed.), Homeward: Towards a Poetics of Space

Reeju Ray

Andrea Wright, Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil

Tanvir Aeijaz

Deba Ranjan and Biswapriya Kanungo, Bharatare Daman Aina: Atita O Barttaman [Repressive Laws in India: Past and Present]

Bijaya Kumar Bohidar

Table of Contents
Volume 55 Issue 3, September 2025

Social Change Annual Lecture

Social Change as an Object of Educational Inquiry

Krishna Kumar

Articles

Of Sanitation Labour, Obsolete Technologies and Civilisation in India

Devesh Khatarker

Female Workforce Participation in Meghalaya: Some Insights

Paramita Roy
Anshuman Barua

Why Do More Boys Enrol in Private Schools? Evidence From India

Pradeep Kumar Choudhury
Amit Kumar
Angrej Singh Gill

Collective Action in Non-Timber Forest Products Governance: Experience of Gram Sabha Federation in Korchi Taluka, Maharashtra

Lekshmi M.
Geetanjoy Sahu

Financial Inclusion of Female Sex Workers in Odisha: What Does the Field Evidence Say?

Prakash Chandra Lenka
Rajesh Barik

Educational Attainment and Interventions in Tribal Communities: A Situational Analysis of Selected Districts in Madhya Pradesh

Jayanta Kumar Behera

Perspective

From Empowerment to Protectionism: Positioning Judiciary in the Intersections of Gender and Religion

Shinde Sheetal N.

Social Change Indicators

Conditions of Employment and Social Security Benefits for Workers in India

Surajit Deb

Review Article

Desiring Democracy’s Survival in India: Dreams, Dissent and Dialogues

Papia Sengupta

Review Essay

From Welfare to Rights: The Chequered History of Elementary Education in India

S. Seetharamu

Book Reviews

Sukhadeo Thorat, S. Madheswaran, & B. P. Vani, Scheduled Castes in the Indian Labour Market: Employment, Discrimination, and Its Impact on Poverty

Sangeeta Ghosh

Satyajit Singh and Ajit Menon (Eds.), Environmental Politics at the Local: Natural Resource Governance in India

Prajna Paramita Mishra

Veronica Herrera, Slow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation and Policy Change in Latin American Cities

Alicia Cooperman

A. R. Vasavi, Differentiation and Disjunction: Interrogating India’s Education System

Poornima M

Linde Lindkvist, Barnets Mänskliga Rättigheter [The Human Rights of the Child] (Swedish)

Therese Boje Mortensen

Table of Contents
Volume 55 Issue 4, December 2025

Articles

Re-Cast(e)ing the State Policy: Ascription, Identities, and Democratic Politics

Surinder S. Jodhka

Sacred Authority and Social Order: Myths, Deities, and Traditional Power Institutions in Kinnaur

Harish K. Thakur
Sangita Negi
Dev Kumar Negi

Social Support: A Critical Variable in Empowering Transgender— Empirical Evidence From Delhi–NCR

Sonal Shubham

The Gandhi–Ambedkar Debate: Revisit, Re-Examination, and Reconciliation

Prakash Khundrakpam
Jayanta Krishna Sarmah

Intersecting Identities: Gender, Caste, and Educational Choices Among Muslims in Kashmir

Rabiya Yaseen Bazaz
Mohammad Akram

Adivasis, Urban Centres, and Mirage of Constitutionalism: A Study of Unfulfilled Promise of the Municipalities (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (MESA)

Kamal Nayan Choubey

Savings and Investment Behaviour in Rural India: An Impact Assessment of Investor Awareness Program

Nivedita Sharma
Ramandeep Kaur

Gender and Well-Being: A Case of the Garo Ethnic Group, Bangladesh-Inherently a Matrilineal Society

M Rokonuzzaman
Deewesh Prasad
Aditya Venketesh
Shadesh Karmaker

Perspective

Debating the Concept of Public Schooling in India

Gopal Guru

Social Change Indicators

The State of Women’s Empowerment in India: A Sub-National Examination

Surajit Deb

Review Essays

State of Indian Education: Paradox or Product of Systemic Neglect?

R. Govinda

Political Economy of a Populist Regime

Harish Khare

Book Reviews

Vivek Kumar, Decoding Ambedkar: Ideas of Nation and Nation Building

Jaya Shrivastava

Shailja Tandon, Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India

Michiel Baas

Laurence Gautier, Between Nation and ‘Community’: Muslim Universities and Indian Politics After Partition

Yamini Agarwal

Pamela Philipose, Framing the Media: Government Policies, Law and Freedom of the Press in India

Mannika Chopra

Michael Homberg, Digitale Unabhängigkeit. Indiens Weg ins Computerzeitalter: eine internationale Geschichte [Digital Independence: India’s Path Towards the Computer Age: An International History]

Alina Marktanner

Tributes: Remembering V. Vasanthi Devi (1938–2025)

Celebrating Vasanthi Devi: A Life of Courage and Conviction

Shantha Sinha

V. Vasanthi Devi: A Life in Education
V. Geetha