Social ADVISORY EDITORS &CieilllSl Ash ok Mitra Amalendu Guha Monthly Journal of the A^SSSi Indian sch001 ofsocial sciences Kishore Theckedath VOLUME 13 APRIL CONTRIBUTING EDITORS NUMBER 4 1985 Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shimla) CONTENTS V K Ramachandran (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD Editorial Note 1 |MJKThavaraj| Jacob Eapen Indian Labour and its Historiography Madhu Prasad in P re-Independence Period MANAGING EDITOR —Sanat Bose 3 Rajendra Prasad Trade Liberalisation in India: EDITOR Attempts and Consequences Prabhat Patnaik —Aditya Bhattacharjea 11 EDITORIAL OFFICE Mercenaries and the Political Economy 424, V P House, of Bengal: 1727-63 New Delhi-110 001 * —Rataff Dasgupta 17 CIRCULATION AND Bhils" Participation in Politics ADVERTISEMENT in Raja&than in the 1920's B-l. Second Floor LSC. —C.S.K. Singh 31 J Block Saket, DISCUSSION New Delhi-110017 sitarama Raju's Rebellion : A Response SUBSCRIPTION RATES* —David Arnold 44 INLAND 3 years Rs 150 Many am Rebellion : A Rejoinder 2 years Rs 120 —Atlury Murali 50 Annual Rs 65 yy^ Comfortable Fallacies of (Students Rs 50) the ' Bhadralok9 Mind Institutions and Libraries _^ ^ Bagchi 57 RslOO Single copy Rs 6 BOOK REVIEWS •Rs 3 extra if by cheque rnvmrM Colonialism in Sri Lanka - ,. ,f^i; \ -Harbans Mukhia 59 (Annual mU S dollars) Sea Mail: 30 Women in Focus Air Mail: 40 —Nina Rao 61 Articles and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.