Social Change | JOURNAL
Social Change, founded in 1971 with Kamla Mankekar as its first editor, is a multidisciplinary social science quarterly. It carries full-length research articles, brief write-ups, and book reviews focussing on issues related to social change and development in India. It welcomes contributions on social change and development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and is open to relevant contributions on European, North American, and other contexts. It also disseminates scholarship on emerging concerns through its special thematic issues. Its book reviews and review articles aim to inform its readers of important and current trends in global scholarship. Sponsored by the Council for Social Development, Social Change has a global readership in the academic, activist, and policy circles. Published by Sage, it carries contributions from established as well as emerging scholars from India and abroad.
FOR SUBSCRIPTION
EDITOR
- Riaz Ahmad, Council for Social Development, New Delhi and University of Delhi, India
MANAGING EDITOR
- Ankita Goyal, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
- Poornima M, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
ASSISTANT EDITOR
- Gurmeet Kaur, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
EDITORIAL BOARD
- Monica Bruckmann Federal Flomenance University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Gopal Guru, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- Barbara Harriss-White University of Oxford, UK
- Rounaq Jahan University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and Columbia University, New York, USA
- Mark Juergensmeyer University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Kalpana Kannabiran Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
- Sujit Kumar Mishra Council for Social Development–Southern Regional Centre, Hyderabad
- Manoranjan Mohanty Council for Social Development, New Delhi and University of Delhi, India
- Deepak Nayyar Council for Social Development and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- Imrana Qadeer Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- K. Srinath Reddy Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
- Ma Rong Peking University, Beijing, China
- K. B. Saxena Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
- Mohamed Seedat University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
- Kian Tajbakhsh Social Scientist, Teheran, Iran
- Jandhyala B. G. Tilak Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
- Virginius Xaxa University of Delhi, India
- S. Akbar Zaidi Social Scientist, Karachi, Pakistan
Editorial inquiries: socialchange@csdindia.org
List of Special issues of Social Change
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)
Social Change Journal Volume 55 – 2025
Table of Contents
Volume 55 – Issue 1, March 2025 
Volume 55 – Issue 2, June 2025
Volume 55 – Issue 3, September 2025
Volume 55 – Issue 4, December 2025