SOCIAL SCIENCE PROBINGS (Quarterly) Volume I November 4 December 1984 Chairman, Editorial Board Prof. R S Sharma CONTENTS Ashish Bose and Vir Narain Population Perpective and Policy in India: 1951-2001 Jagannath Pathy Social Basis of Banditry and the Criminal Tribes Act Kalyan Dutt National Sample Survey on Land Holdings in the Rural Sector: A Critique Maheshwari Prasad Social Anthropologists on the Use of History Vivekanandjha Agricultural Labour and Village Artisans in Early North Indian History (up to c 500 B C) Marlene Njammasch From the Ancient Labour Tax to the Feudal Corvee: A Marxist Approach to the Study ofVisti BOOK REVIEW Anjani Kumar Sinha The Artist in Chains: The Life of Bankimchandra Chatter ji by Sisir Kumar Das Subscription (Annual): Rs 35-00 Single copy: Rs 10-00 Order your copy from PEOPLE'S PUBLISHING HOUSE LIMITED 5"E, Rani Jhansi Road, New Delhi-100 055 or P P H SHOWROOM 2, Marina Arcade, Connaught Place New Delhi-110001. JUST PUBLISHED COMMUNISTS AND INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE Containing Articles by: —B T Ranadivc —E M S Namboodiripad —M Basavapunnaiah —Sumit Sarkar Pages:70 Price: Rs 10-00 ALSO MARXIST PERSPECTIVES Pages 146+X Prices Rs 30.00 (only a few copies left) Place your order with Manger Manager Social Scientist Press National Book Centre 24/1212, Mettukada 14, Ashoka Road Trivandrum-695014. New Delhi-110 001