The Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) has been crucial in India’s intellectual space for more than half a century. It has served as a forum for debate and become a journal of international academic repute. EPW provides a multidisciplinary platform for academics and practitioners, researchers and students, as well as concerned citizens, for critical engagement with economy, polity and society in contemporary India. For scholars based outside India it is equally indispensable. Given the current political and other challenges in India, EPW is more important than ever.
Due to the pandemic and the nationwide lockdown, however, the journal is now experiencing a drastic drop in revenue from retail sales and advertisement income resulting in an acute financial crisis. The editorial team and well-wishers of EPW are therefore reaching out, urging the community of readers, contributors and subscribers of EPW to do the best they can to ensure its sustainability.
To defend its independence, donations are not possible from outside India, but more subscriptions are. International scholars on India are now coming together in a campaign for more subscriptions, institutional and individual.
From Scandinavia, the signatories of this appeal hope you who read will join us in supporting EPW by urging more institutions to take up a subscription and by all of us subscribing individually (even if we have access through libraries). A yearly electronic individual subscription, for example, of 50 issues is $150. Longer-term subscription may be more favourable. Click here to read more about how you can support by subscription.
For more information, please write to circulation@epw.in
The appeal is signed by:
Olle Törnquist, University of Oslo
Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Asianettverket / Norwegian Network for Asian Studies
Arild Engelsen Ruud, University of Oslo
Andreas Johansson, SASNET / Swedish South Asian Studies Network
Kathinka Frøystad, University of Oslo
Aase Mygind Madsen, Via University College
Pamela Price, University of Oslo
Göran Djurfeldt, Lund University
Stig Toft Madsen, NIAS / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Ravinder Kaur, University of Copenhagen
Uwe Skoda, Aarhus University
Francesca Jensenius, University of Oslo
Anne Waldrop, Oslo Metropolitan University
