Social Scientist ^"rZ: M^^aUf^ Amalendu Guha Indian School of Social Sciences IrfanHabib VOLUME 14 JANUARY AmiyaBagchi NUMBER 1 1986 Kishorc 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 EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTENTS 424, V P House. New Delhi-110 001 ,, l Editorial Note ' CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISEMENT Medieval Indian Notions of B-l. Second Floor LSC, Secular Statecraft J Block Saket. -Iqtidar Alam Khan 3 New Delhi-110017 Aid and the Development of SUBSCRIPTION RATES- ^ ^hird World INLAND —Princy Dharmaratne 16 3 years : Rs 150 2 years : Rs 120 A Note on Labour Movement Annual: Rs 65 /„ Bengal (1920-21) (Students: Rs 50) —Sanat Bose 23 Institutions and Libraries : Rs 100 Rise and Growth of the Left Single copy : Rs 6 Movement in Andhra (1934-39) *Rs 3 extra if by cheque —A. Satyanarayana 34 FOREIGN REVIEW (Annual in US dollars) Sea Mail : 30 Academic Marxism Air Mail : 40 —Suneet Chopra 48 Articles and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.