Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 12 FEBRUARY NUMHLR 2 1984 EDITOR CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik EDITORIAL BOARD Editorial Note 1 M J K Thavaraj Jacob Eapen The Marxist Theory of Ground Rent: Relevance to Kitty Menon ^ g^ of Agrarian Question in India Madhu Prasad - J ° ^ ./, r, ^T i, j- • -i o —E M S Namboodinpad 3 EDITORIAL OFFICE 4?4, v P House. How Feudal was Indian Feudalism? New Delhi-110 001 —R S Sharma 16 CIRCULATION AND Nationalism-. Pan-Indian and Regional in a Historical 24/1212, Mettukkada, Perspective Tnvandrum-695 014 —Amalendu Guha 42 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Marxism and Social Sciences: A Synoptic View INLAND — M J K Thavaraj 66 3 years : Rs 150 2 years : Rs 120 Annual : Rs 65 (Students : Rs 50) BOOK REVIEW Half-yearly : Rs 35 Single copy : Rs 6 ^ ^dence and the Life of Albert Einstein —Raiendra Prasad 79 FOREIGN J (Annual in U S dollars) Sea Mail : 18 Air Mail COVFR; Hand-written manuscript of Kail (USA and Canada) : 30 . . ,,.,./. r L ^ • , o , (Other countries) : 24 Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party Articles and review express the views of the authors and s'^f neces^afily of the editors or of the Indian School of Soda! Sc lenccs.