BOOK REVIEW 75 calculate the amount of land required to provide for each household's basic requirements; and to generate sufficient income to provide for other requirements depending on the family budget data and also to cover the overhead costs of production. Finally, all the households are put in relation to this minimum unit (p 115). Based on this, the class structure arrived at is as follows: big farmers/capitalist farmers (Group \) Substantial Household rich peasants (independent Producers middle peasantry) (Group B) middle peasants (dependent middle peasantry) (Group G) Dependent Household poor peasants landless labourers (Group D) Producers The index of 'livelihood farm unit5 indicates the class categories in re' ilion to the amount of output produced which also reflects the control over the means of production; however, it does not capture the class status of the households based on the relations and organisations on a correct understanding of Marxism. Harriss does a lot of theorising based on the writings of Lenin and Mao and yet does not use the indices developed by them for differentiating the peasantry. Lenin takes labour hiring as the main index for differentiating classes within the peasantry and Mao uses rent exploitation and loan interest along with labour hiring for the purpose. Harriss does not give us any information on labour hiring, net labour use and rental shares of cultivators. Class status is not indicated based on the organisation of work but' this characteristic is described in relation to already drawn categories. The pattern of organisation of work as given in Table 4.8 on page 135 in the book can be reformulated in the following manner: Landholding Organisation of Work (Mo of Households) (LFU) Farms managed! Farms operated operated with with family! attached labowers hired/exchange Others^ labour (A) more than 4 units 9 — — (B) 2-4 13 9 — (C) 1-2 3 29 (D) less than 1 — — 40 ^Others: (a) Owner-tenants—4 households, (b) agriculture labour as subsibiary—-12 households, (c) another subsidiaiv occupation—13 households, (d) tenants— 11 households The above table shows that except for category (A), more than one type of work organisation has been put together to arrive at an