Social Scientist WVKOW^^ M^yJ^rf,!,. Amalendu Guha Indian School of Social Sciences IrfanHabib VOLUME 13 DECEMBER Amiya Bagchi NUMBER 12 1985 Ki shore Theckedath CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shimla) V K Ramachandran (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD Jacob Eapen Madhu Prasad MANAGING EDITOR Rajendra Prasad EDITOR Prabhat Patnaik CONTENTS EDITORIAL OFFICE 424, V P House. New Delhi-110 001 Editorial Note 1 CIRCULATION AND Resource Mobilisation and Devolution ADVERTISEMENT ^Ashok Mitra 3 B-l, Second Floor LSC. J Block Saket. 77^ ^w Economic Policy : New Delhi-110017 An Overview SUBSCRIPTION RATES'* —Amal Sanyal 11 INLAND 3 years : Rs 150 grants in Coal Mines : 2 years • Rs 120 Peasants or Proletarians, 1850s—1947 Annual : Rs 65 —Ranajit Das Gupta 18 (Studems: Rs 50) , , Institutions and Libraries Goya s EnSravm^ •- Anatomy ' Rs 100 °f a ^u^verslve Aesthetic Single copy : Rs 6 —A N- Anwer 44 'Rs 3 extra if by cheque r». Discussion FOREIGN Modes of Power : Some Ambiguities (Annual in US dollars) —Sanjay Prasad 59 Sea Mail : 30 Air Mail : 40 Index Vol. 13 Issues 140 to 151 67 Articles and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily cf the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences