ISSN 0770-0293 Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS Monthly Journal of the Ashok Mitra Indian School of Social Sciences Amalendu Guha VOLUME 14 NOV.-DEC. Irfan Habib NUMBER 11-12 1986 Amiya Bagchi Ki shore Theckedath CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shim la) V K. Ramachandran (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD Jacob Eapen Madhu Prasad MANAGING EDITOR Rajendra Prasad EDITOR Prabhat Patnaik EDITORIAL OFFICE 424. V P House, New Delhi-110 001 CONTENTS CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISEMENT Atonal Note 3 B-l, Second Floor LSC, The Agrarian Question, Form's of Capitalist J Block Saket. Agrarian Transition, And The State : An New Delhi-110017 Essay With Reference To Asia SUBSCRIPTION RATES* ^"T J* Byres 3 INLAND Differentiation of The Peasantry in 3 years : Rs 150 Bangladesh : 1950s to 1980s 2 years : Rs 120 —Atiur Rahman ^8 Annual :Rs 65 (Students ; Rs 50) Identifying the Peasant Classes-m" Institutions and Libraries Themselves in Rural India (Annual): Rs 100 —Ursa Patnaik 96 *P singlecopy:RS 6 BOOK REVIEW *Rs 3 extra if by cheque FOREIGN ^^^7^^ {Annual in US dollars) DeveloPment Economics 124 Air Mail : 50 INDEX 333 ^ Articles and review express the views •/ the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.