Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 10 OCTOBER NUMBER 10 1982 EDITOR CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik EDITORIAL BOARD Editorial Note 1 M J K Thavaraj The Overdraft Problem in Perspective Jacob Eapen — M J K Thavaraj 3 Kitty Menon Madhu Prasad Government Policy and the Crisis in Power Equipment Industry -— AshokRao 11 EDITORIAL OFFICE 424, V P House. New Delhi-110001 Sociology and Studies on Women — Maitreyi Chaudhary 21 Local and Global Operations of Multinational CIRCULATION AND Corporations: Unilever in India. ADVERTISEMENT —- Ajay Kumar Rath 30 PBNo 116 Trivandrum-695 001 NOTES Intensifying Contradictions between the U S and its "Allies" SUBSCRIPTION RATES — K M 44 INLAND 3 years : Rs 150 India9 s Foreign Policy — C H Bhambri 51 2 years : Rs 120 Annual : Rs 65 DISCUSSION Half-yearly : Rs 35 In Defence of Serious Polemics Single Copy ; Rs 6 — Pranab Kanti Basu An Jan Ghosh 56 FOREIGN Reply (Annual in U S dollars) — Madhu Prasad 64 Sea Mail : 18 Air Mail BOOK REVIEW (USA and Canada) : 30 Gelebtes Denken (Other countries) : 24 — Anil Bhatti 69 Articles9 notes, discussion and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences