68 SOCIAL SCIENTIST prolonged industrial recession will affect agricultural profitability, remains to be seen. 11 For example, Lenin's comments on the proper analysis of agricultural data for revealing economic and hence class differentiation are relatively ignored though they are so valuable. I have tried to apply his concepts in. my "Economics of Farm Size and Farm Scale^', Economic and Political Weekly, Special Number, July 1972. 12 Karl Marx, Pre'Capitalist Economic Formations, E J Hobsbawm (Ed), p 41. 18 Karl Marx, Capital, Vol III, op. cit., pp 614-620. 14 Ibid. 18 Ibid. 18 Report, Culcutta 1928, p 425 : ^The complaint that the large landlords do little for the development of their estates is a very general one and the honourable exceptions to be found in every province are too few in numbers to do more than throw into relief the apathy of the majority." 17 1' Shukia, Capital Formation in Indian Agriculture, Bombay 1965; and G Blyn, Agricultural Trends in India, 1897-1947, Philadelphia 1966. 18 J Banaji, ^Colonialism and Capitalism : Some Comments on Chattopadyay's Anti-Kritik", Economic and Political Weekly, March 1973. 19 Karl Marx, Capital, Vol III, op. cit., p 792. 20 V I Lenin, Collected Works, Vol 2 (I), Chapter III, Progress Publishers, Moscow 1964. 21 Karl Marx, Capital.VcA III, op. cit., p 799. 22 Ibid., pp 804-812.