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Social Scientist
Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences
VOLUME 11 APRIL NUMBER 4 (983
EDITOR CONTENTS
Prabhat Patnaik
EDITORIAL BOARD Editorial Note 1 M J K Thavaraj
Jacob Eapen History from Below9 Kitty Menon — Sabyasachi Bhattacharya 3
Madhu Prasad
Marx, Chernyshevskii and the Theory of Histo-EDITORIAL OFFICE rical Expediency in Social Transformation
424, vp House. — Kalyan Das Gupta 21
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Urbanisation in India: A Contrast with Western
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