MAN YAM REBELLION 49 Hand to indicate both the strength and adaptability of the popular tradition and its political limitations, and on the other to show how new elements of leadership, . organization and ideology were grafted into or fused with the existing tradition. At the time that I was writing it seemed to me of primary importance to seek to uncover the fituri tradition and to place Sitarama Raju's rising within that neglected historical context. I was struck, too, how litde effective fusion there was, in this instance, between the popular tradition and the intervention of outside leadership and ideology. The two streams of political consciousness and action seemed to me to meet in Sitarama Raju's rebellion but not to become wholly integrated. At other times and in other places that fusion may more successfully have been achieved. DAVID ARNOLD Lecturer in History, University ot Lancaster, U.K.