Former names Economic Weekly Discipline Social sciences Edited by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Econ. Polit. Wkly Language English | |
Publisher Sameeksha Trust (India) | ||
The Economic and Political Weekly is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all social sciences. It is published by the Sameeksha Trust and the editor is Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The Trust appointed Thakurta as the new editor of the Journal with effect from April 1, 2016. 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.
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History
The journal was established in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and edited by Sachin Chaudhuri. It obtained its current name in 1966. It was edited by Krishna Raj for more than three decades and is among the most prestigious scholarly journals in India, having had contributions from many of the country's best known scholars.
Political position
The journal is known for its strong editorial stance with a "social conscience" and for taking left-leaning positions in its editorials, which were occasionally critical of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) government in West Bengal for not being radical enough. The journal was harshly critical of some of the policies of the Indira Gandhi government during the Emergency, as well as of state complicity in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in CAB Abstracts and Scopus.