Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 12 JUNE NUMBER 6 1984 Prabhat'pS CONTENTS Editorial Note 1 EDITORIAL BOARD M J K Thavaraj Karl Marx and Bourgeois Economics Jacob Eapen —Prabhat Patnaik 3 Kitty Menon Madhu Prasad New Forms a/International Investment in India —Ashok V. Desai 23 EDITORIAL OFFICE 424, VP House, NOTES New Delhi-110 OC1 Forestry in Tripura: Its Past and Present CIRCULATION AND —Mahadev Chakravarti 44 ADVERTISEMENT 24/1212, Mettukkada, The Magnitude of Land Revenue Demand in Trivandrum-695 014 Kashmir 1846 to 1900 A.D. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES -Ratan Lal ^S100 52 'NLAND DISCUSSION 3 years : Rs 150 2 years: Rs 120 The Pre-Ahom Roots of Medieval Assam Annual: Rs 65 —Nayanjot Lahiri 60 (Students : Rs 50) - ~ Half-yearly: Rs 35 Pre'Ahom Roots and the Medieval State in Assam : Single copy: Rs6 A Reply FOREIGN —Amalendu Guha 70 (Annual in US dollars) Sea Mall: 18 BOOK REVIEWS Air Mail -, . , r.» (USA and Canada): 30 Sharecroppmg and Sharecroppers (Other countries): 24 —Jayati Ghosh 78 Articles, report and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.