ISSN 0970-0293 ADVISORY EDITORS AshokMitra QnnifllAmalend LI Guha W U U 1 U 1 Irfan Habib 0 1< A" A Amiya Bagchi 001601181 Kishore Theckedath Jacob Eapen Monthly Journal of the CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Indian School of Social Sciences Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) VOLUME 15 JANUARY Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) NUMBER 1 1987 Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shimla) V K Ramachandran (Madras) Venkatesh Athreya (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD Madhu Prasad Utsa Patnaik R.R. Krishnan D. Raghunandan C. Rajamohan C.P. Chandrasekhar MANAGING EDITOR Rajendra Prasad EDITOR CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik EDITORIAL OFFICE Ed!torial Note 1 423. V P House, 'The Original Jamini Ray': A Study in the New Delhi-110 001 Consumerism of Art CIRCULATION AND -Katnabali Chatterjee 3 ADVERTISEMENT Prohlematics of Middle Class Consciousness B-l. Second Floor LSC. in Jivanananda DOS' Novels J Block Saket, —Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 19 New Delhi-110017 SUBSCRIPTION RATES* Bengal R€naltssa^ce~A ^Y ^ Soda] SUBSCRIPTION KA 1 fcb Contradictions INLAND —Pulak Naranyan Dhar 26 3 years : Rs 150 2 years : Rs 120 The aa^ character of Sexuality : Peasant Annual : Rs 65 ^vomen in ^nfk Bandopadhyay (Students : Rs 50) "-Malini Bhattacharya 46 Institutions and Libraries NOTE (Annual): Rs 100 . , , Single copy : Rs 6 Age °f En^avc^ ' *Rs 3 extra if by cheque —Ashok Mitra 60 FOREIGN BOOK REVIEW (Annual in US dollars) j^ian Sociology AirMail : 50 -Kristoffel Lieten 66 Articles and review express the views ef the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.