OUR CONTRIBUTORS Dr ASIM CHAUDHURI is Reader in Economics, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Poona. GORAN DJURFELDT is in the Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Sweden. Dr HIREN GOHAIN is Reader in English, Gauhati University, Assam. STAFFAN LINDBERG is in the Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Sweden. SHARAD PATIL is secretary, Dhulia District Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sakri, Maharashtra. S NAQVI is at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Poona. Dr UTSA PATNAIK is at the Centre for the Study of Economic Development and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, MOHAN THAMPI is in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,