Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS Monthly Journal of the Ashok Mitra Indian School of Social Sciences AmalenduGuha VOLUME 14 AUG.-SEP. Irfan Habib NUMBER 8, 9 1986 Amiya Bagchi 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 CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik ^ursl 1 ^1 ^ EDITORIAL OFFICE Editorial Note 3 KT 424^ ^p H^ The Left ln India's ^dom Movement New Delhi-110 001 ^ ^ ^ ^ CIRCULATION AND —E.M.S. Namboodiripad 3 ADVERTISEMENT Struggle for the Ideological Transformation B-l. Second Floor LSC, ^ ^ rational Congress in the 1930s J Bloc ksaket> —Bipan Chandra 18 New Delhi-110017 Ideology, Congiess and Peasants In 1930s : SUBSCRIPTION RATES* class Adjustment or Submission INLAND —Kapil Kumar 40 3 years Rs 150 j^ National Movement and the 2 years Rs ! 20 Comn unist Pai ty in Kerala Annual Rs 65 —T.M. Thomas Issac 59 (Students Rs 50) Institutions and Libraries India s Freedom Struggle RS 100 —B.T. Ranadive 81 Single copy Rs 12 Indian National Movement *Rs 3 extra if by cheque ' —Seminar Report 127 FOREIGN BOOK REVIEW (Annual in US dollars) , ,. „ . , Indian Business and Air Mail : 50 rationalist Politics 1931.39 152 ^ Articles and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.