CONTINUITY OF THE SYSTEM 35 integration and federalism arc jettisoned in due process, as happened towards the end of thcjanata rule. For more details, sec Economic and Political Weekly, 9 March 1980. Balasaheb Deoras in Organiser, 14 October 1979. R Ulyanovsky, Socialism and the Newly Developed Nations9 Moscow, 1974, p 223. Economic and Political Weekly, 12 July 1978. The fast increase in the procurement as well as in the market prices of wheat and cotton compared to that in rice and jute reflects the difference in the political strength of the rich peasant areas and the small peasant areas. The Economic Times, 29 August 1979. 7 The Times of India, 24 February 1979. 8 A clear rebuttal of this position, which lately has been argued from a "Marxist*) position, for example by Dandckar, can be found in Parvez Alam, The Class Nature of Indian Society, New Delhi, 1978. 9 The Times of India, 8 June 1979. 10 The Economic Times, 21 March 1979. 11 Typical of this line of thinking is the following 1979 Budget speech statement: "If this rate of agrarian and industrial growth is to be maintained in the coming years supplies of basic goods should increase through larger investments. That is why the government is pushing ahead with a larger investment programme in irrigation, electricity generation, cement, steel, transport and fertilisers". 19 Financiele Telegraph, 28 January 1978. 18 Pavlov, Rastyanikov and Shirokov, Indian Social and Economic Development, Moscow, 1975. 14 Kristoffel Lictcn and Jan Pluyms (cd), ^.rmoezaaiers an Arm,)elijders, Utrecht, DC Indiase Industries op de rand van de afgrond, 1981. 15 Usha Menon, "Overvloed en Schaatste**, in Licten and Playms, op cit, 16 The Economic Times, 21 March 1978. 17 The Economic Times, 15January 1979. 18 The Time of India, 19 February 1979. 19 The election manifesto published on 11 February 1977 made a Ics^ radical proposal in the sense that it talked about industries "producing effectively**. 90 Financial Express, 8 April 1978. 91 Financial Express, 9 January 1978. 99 Hindustan Times, 2 February, 1978. 98 Lenin, Development of Capitalism in Russia, Moscow, 1964, p 433. 14 The Economic Times, 27 May, 1978. 95 For an interesting survey of Kanpur, sec the study by Papola and Mathur, The Economic Times, 2 April 1979; for Maharashtra, see Economic Times, 19 October 1978. 96 Economic and Political Weekly, 30 June 1979. 97 S K Goyal, The Impact of Foreign Subsidiaries on Indians Balance of Payment, New Delhi, 1979, cyclostylcd; S K Goyal, Monopoly Capital and Public, Policy, New Delhi, 1979; Asim Chaudhury, Private Economic Power, New Delhi, 1976. 98 Annual Report in The Economic Times, 18 May 1979. 99 Economic and Political Weekly, 3 September 1 977. 8(1 See for example Prcm Shankerjha, Political Economy of India, New Delhi, 1979.