Economic and Political Weekly

Economic and Political Weekly
Economic and Political Weekly logo
DisciplineSocial sciences
LanguageEnglish
Edited byGopal Guru
Publication details
Former name(s)
Economic Weekly
History1949–present
Publisher
Sameeksha Trust (India)
FrequencyWeekly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Econ. Political Wkly.
Indexing
ISSN0012-9976
LCCNsa67002009
JSTOReconpoliweek
OCLC no.46735231
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The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all 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 Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi,[7] and is Editor-designate of the journal.[8][9] 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.[10]

  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.