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| Discipline | Social sciences |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | S. Mahendra Dev |
| Publication details | |
Former name | Economic Weekly |
| History | 1949–present |
| Publisher | Sameeksha Trust (India) |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Econ. Political Wkly. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0012-9976 |
| LCCN | sa67002009 |
| JSTOR | econpoliweek |
| OCLC no. | 46735231 |
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TheEconomic and Political Weekly (EPW) is a weeklypeer-reviewedacademic journal covering allsocial sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust.[1] In August 2023, economist S. Mahendra Dev was named as the neweditor of the journal.[2][3] He succeededGopal Guru, who served as editor from January 2018 to July 2023.[4]
The Sameeksha Trust board comprises eminent persons from academia and business, namely,Deepak Nayyar (chairman), D N Ghosh (Managing Trustee),Andre Beteille,Deepak Parekh,Romila Thapar,Rajeev Bhargava,Dipankar Gupta, and Shyam Menon.[5]
The journal was established in 1949 as theEconomic Weekly and edited by Sachin Chaudhuri.[6] It obtained its current name in 1966.[7] It was edited by Krishna Raj for more than three decades[8] and is among the most prestigious scholarly journals in India,[9] having had contributions from many of the country's best known scholars.[8]
Past authors includeAmartya Sen,Manmohan Singh,Jagdish Bhagwati,Ramachandra Guha,Angus Deaton,Kaushik Basu,Romila Thapar,Jeffrey Sachs,Prannoy Roy,T.N. Srinivasan,Subramanian Swamy,Christophe Jaffrelot,Jean Drèze,Mani Shankar Aiyar,Andre Beteille,Ashok Gulati, andNirupam Bajpai.
The journal is known for takingleft-leaning positions in its editorials, which were occasionally critical of theCommunist Party of India (Marxist) government inWest Bengal for not being radical enough.[10] According toThe Hindu, the journal takes strong editorial stance with a "social conscience".[11]The Caravan notes the journal's "obsession with intra-Marxist debate" and that its contributors "range from free-market liberals on one side toNaxalite sympathisers on the other".[1] The journal was harshly critical of some of the policies of theIndira Gandhi government during theEmergency, as well as of state complicity in the2002 Gujarat riots.[12]
The journal is abstracted and indexed inCAB Abstracts[13] andScopus.[14]
EPW has licensed its material for non-exclusive use to 3 content aggregators -Contify,Factiva andJSTOR.
Contify disseminates EPW content toLexisNexis,Thomson Reuters,Securities.com,Gale Cengage,AcquireMedia andNewsBank.
Factiva andJSTOR have EPW content on their databases for their registered users.
In 2016, C. Rammanohar Reddy quit as editor in a controversial move which led to several academics expressing concern in an open letter,[15] and at least one board member,Jean Dreze, resigning from the board.[16][17] Shortly after, his successorParanjoy Guha Thakurta also quit in 2017 after a controversial article about theAdani Group was removed from the website amidst reasons that many felt were unclear or unjustified.[18][19] 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.[20] This once again led to various scholars and commentators questioning the Sameeksha Trust that runs the journal.[21][22][23]
Eventually professor and scholar Gopal Guru was appointed as the new editor in January 2018.[24]
In 2023, Dev was appointed editor of the Economic and Political Weekly by the Sameeksha Trust. He succeeded Gopal Guru.
Dev will succeed Professor Gopal Guru with effect from August 1. Guru, who has served EPW for five years, is completing his term at the end of July 2023.