T» Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS Monthly Journal ^the Ashok Mitra Indian School of Social Sciences AmalenduGuha VOLUME 15 JUNE IrfanHabih NUMBER 6 J986 Amiya Bagchi Kishore Theckedath CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shim la) V K Ramachandran (Madras) EDTIORIAL BOARD Jacob Eapen Madhu Prasad CONTENTS ' MANAGING EDITOR Rajedra Prasad Editorial Note \ EDITOR Institutional Reforms and Agricultural Prabhat Patnaik Growth EDITORIAL OFFICE —Pradhan H. Prasad 3 ^T 423^ vp Hou^ Changing Agrarian Relations and New Delhi-110 001 ^tate of Peasantry in Andhra During CIRCULATION AND Early Ninfeenth Century ADVERTISEMENT —D. Subramanyam Reddy 20 B-l, Second Floor LSC, Colonial Economy and Variations in J Block Saket, yy,^ Exploitation : A Comparative New Delhi-110017 ^tudy in Thana and Khandesh * SUBSCRIPTION RATES* Districts c 1818-1940 ^ INLAND —-Ashok K. Upadhyay 42 ^ 3 years : Rs 150 NOTES t 2 years : Rs 120 Speculation in the Indian Economy Annual:RS65 -G.V.Ramana 50 (Students : Rs 50) M Institutions and Libraries Ruu^ Party's Defence of Muslim H -.RslOO Women's Bill x^ Single copy : Rs 6 —Gautam Novlakha 55 *Rs 3 extra if by cheque BOOK REVIEW FOREIGN C. R. Das, Gandhi and the (Annual in US dollars) Working Class Air Mail : 50 —G. K. Lieten 59 Articles and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.