THE INDIAN NATIONAL QUESTION 69 connected with the replacement of the class rule of the bourgeoisie and landlords by a new People's Democratic state and government in which the working class plays the leading role. This is the lesson to be drawn from the history of the formation of nationalities. It unfortunately docs not emerge out of the "conceptual frame" provided by Professor Guha. E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD"* ^General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist)