Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 12 AUGUST NUMBER 8 1984 Prabhat^a^k / CONTENTS EDITORIAL BOARD Editorial Note I* M J K Thavaraj Jacob Eapcn Mode of Production and the Extent of Peasant Kltty Menon Differentiation in Pro-British Bengal — Biplab Dasgupta 3 EDITORIAL OFFICE . . . . . « ^, 424 V P House lne Transformation of Agrarian Structure: The New Delhi-110001 Vietnamese Experience — Francois Houtart 35 CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISEMENT x7^^r' o 24/1212. Mettukkada, • NOTES Trivandrum-695 014 Subsistence Tenancy in a Backward Agrarian Settings SUBSCRIPTION RATES A case stud^ ^ North Bihar INLAND — B N Verma and R R Mishra 46 2 ^arsr Rs l^ Tribal Development with Special Reference to Annual : Rs 65 J^orth'East India (Students : Rs 50) — Atui Goswami 55 Half-yearly : Rs 35 Single copy ; Rs 6 The Eighth Finance Commission — S D 61 FOREIGN (Annual in^ ^^i BOOK REVIEW (USA and CanX^O Probabilities of the Quautnm World (Other countries) : 24 — Rajendra Prasad 64 Articles, notes and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School Social Sciences.