4 SOCIAL SCIENTIST aspect of the question of nationalisation and municipalisation is particularly necessary.91 In our country too, Marxist-Leninists gave "predominance to "practical over theoretical" and "political over economic" considerations. They too were under "the conditions of intense party work" and discussed various aspects of the agrarian question in the country as the practical revolutionary activity demanded. A voluminous material on India's agrarian problem has thus accumulated by way of articles, books, party documents, etc. They however fail to make an overall and integrated study of the question from the point of view of Marxist theory as expounded by Marx in Capital and creatively developed and applied by Lenin and the Leninists. The core of the theoretical understanding and practical activity of Indian Marxists on the agrarian question was that the "feudal" or "statutory" landlordism was the main enemy of the people acting as the stooge of British imperialism. Abolition of feudalism or statutory landlordism therefore became the central slogan on which was developed the militant kisan struggles of the 1930's and the 1940's. It was to realise this slogan that the glorious struggles of this period were waged, culminating in the Tebhaga struggle of undivided Bengal, Telengana etc in 1946-1947. Connected with this was the radical democratic movement for the abolition of princely rule in what was then called "Indian India" as opposed to "British India". The agrarian peasant movement was, in other words, directed against the non-cultivating, rent-collecting landlords and the autocratic administrations in princely states. This constituted the programme of the militant action against the feudal ruling classes—a part of the struggle for Indian freedom. Integrally connected as this anti-feudal struggle was with the national political struggle against alien rule, for the realisation of the national demand for independence, the withdrawal of British rulers from India helped the Indian people to realise in part the demands directed against princely rule and statutory landlordism. The assumption of power by the Congress rulers at the Centre was followed by the integration of princely states with the Indian Uuion, the establishment of responsible government in all the former princely states, the integration and merger of all the smaller princely states into a few larger-sized states, and finally in the reconstitution of the existing "British" Indian provinces and "Indian" States to form linguistic states. In the agrarian sector too, radical reforms were made, such as the abolition of zamindari, jagirdari, talukdari^ and other forms of statutory landlordism. Even in the non-statutory landlord regions, tenancy reforms provided for fixation of fair rent, restrictions on ' ejectments etc, to be followed by legislative measures fixing ceilings on landholdings and providing for the distribution of surplus land. These changes in the political-administrative set-up of the