Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indiw School of Social Sciences VOLUME 2 OCTOBER NUMBER 3 1973 CONTENTS Bob Rowthora 3 Neoclassical Economics and its Critics; A Marxist View Prakash Karat 30 Agrarian Relations in Malabar 1925-1948 NOTE George Thomas 44 The Politics of Food SYMPOSIUM Kitty R Menon 55 Class Character of State Power in India BOOK REVIEW M J K Thavaraj 64 Inflation and Indians Economic Crisis Articles^ note^ symposium and book review express the views of their aUthofs^ and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.