Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences ADVISORY EDITOS AshokMitra VOLUME 12 DECEMBER AmalenduGuha NUMBER 12 1984 Irfan Habib Amiya Bagchi Kishore Thekedath CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjay Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Simla) V K Ramachandran (Madras) fcDITORIAL BOARD CONTENTS M J K Thavaraj Jacob Eapcn . Madhu Prasad Editorial 1 MANAGING EDITOR Studying a Colonial Economy-Without perceiving Rajendra Prasad Colonialism — Irfan Habib 3 . ,. EDITOR The Cambridge Economic History of India Vol 2: Prabhat Patnalk .. r» • r n • A Brief Review EDITORIAL & CIRCULATION: -- Amiya Kumar Bagchi 28 " oor Price Movements and Fluctuations in Economic L. & c J Block Activity {I860 1974}: A Review of Me Alpines Con- N n ih. i mm 7 tribution to CEHI New Delhi-110017 _ Arun Ghosh 32 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Transfer of Tribute and the Balance of Payments INLAND in CEHI 3 years : Rs 150 — Utsa Patnaik 43 2 years : Rs 120 Annual : Rs 65 NOTES (Students : Rs 50) "S^gLTopy^Rs3^ on the ^P^^ to the Seventh Five Year Plan — R Ramana 56 FOREIGN (Annual in US dollars) BOOK REVIEW Sea Mail : 18 Air Mail (USA and Canada) : 30 Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion (Other countries) : 24 — Gopalakrishna Kumar 59 Articles^ notes and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.