Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS Monthly Journal of the Ashok Mitra - , ' . , <, . Amaiendu Guha Indian School of Social Sciences Irfan Habib AmiyaBagch, VOLUME 12 OCTOBER Kishore Thekedath NUMBER 10 1984 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS iThomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjay Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Simla) V K Ramachandran (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD M J K Thavaraj Jacob Eapen Madhu Prasad MANAGING EDITOR Rajendraprasad CONTENTS EDITOR Prabhat Patnaik „..,,. i Editorial Mote 1 EDITORIAL OFFICE 424. VP House. , ... --New Delhi-110 001 Subaltern Studies II — 5»angeeta Singh^ et al 3 CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISEMENT 24/1212, Mettukkada. History in the Pre^nt Ten\t: on Sumit Sarkar^s Trivandrum-695 014 'Modern India9 SUBSCRIPTION RATES — An/ind N Das 42 INLAND 3 years: Rs 150 Peasants in Revolt 2 years :Rs 120 — l*s .tap K> I andon b^ Annual : Rs 65 (Students : Rs 50) Half-yearly : Rs 35 Single copy : Rs 6 FORE/GN (Annual in U S dollars) Sea Mail : 18 Air Mail (USA and Canada) ; 30 (Other countries) : 24 Articles, notes and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.