Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS Ashok Mitra Monthly Journal of the Amalcndu Guha Indian School of Social Sciences Irfan Habib VOLUME 14 APRIL Amiya Bagchi NUMBER 4 1986 KIshore Thcckcdath CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javced Alam (Shim)a) V K Ramachandran (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD Jacob Eapen Madhu Prasad MANAGING EDITOR Rajendra Prasad EDITOR CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik EDITORIAL OFFICE Editorial Note 424, V P House, New Delhi-110 001 The Tragedy of Nuclear Deterrence —C. Raja Mohan 3 CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISEMENT Early Trends of Anti-Colonial Peasant Resistance in Bengal B-l, Second Floor LSC, —Atis Dasgupta 20 J Block Saket, New Delhi-110017 U.S. Intervention in Third World Rural Policies SUBSCRIPTION RATES* —Jagannath Pathy 33 INLAND NOTES 3 years : Rs 150 India's Nuclear Policy : Case Against the Bomb 2 years : Rs 120 —Deb Kumar Bose 50 Annual: Rs 65 (Students: Rs 50) The Fallacies of Nuclear Ambiguity Institutions and Libraries —Vivek Monteiro 56 : Rs 100 Simonede Beauvoir : In Search of Freedom Single copy : Rs 6 and Honesty •Rs 3 extra if by cheque —Jayati Ghosh 64 FOREIGN BOOK REVIEW (Annual in US dollars) Sea Mail: 30 Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate Air Mail: 40 —Brij Tankha 67 Articles and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.