2 SOCIAL SCIENTIST that Jibanananda, the renowned poet was a novelist too. Bandyopadhya/s analysis of the novels which he argues reveal the schizophrenic character of Bengali middle-class consciousness should therefore be of particnar interest. Much has been written on the so-called Bengal renaissance. The fact that it could not draw in the Muslim community, or even the backward Hindu masses, the fact that it was confined to the upper stratum of society, the Bhadraloks, the fact that it never took up a consistent anti-imperialist stance : all these have been noted. Pulak Narayan Dhar in his article not only endorses and substantiates these points, but even takes on the role of an iconoclast in portraying the leaders of the "renaissance" like Rammohun Roy. The article does give rise to the following question however : is the objective evaluation of the role of a movement such as the "renaissance", whether one chooses to call it that, completed once we have ennumerated all its obvious limitations ? Finally, this issue ends, with a note by Ashok Mitra, which, in contrasting the past brilliance with the present atrophy of creative work on the left, provides a salutary reminder for the necessity of self-criticism, and giving untrammelled ieia to bold creativity. Readers will notice that with the current issue of Social Scientist we have expanded our editorial team further. While the earlier expansion had brought into the team a number of eminent scholars from different parts of the country in order to provide the journal with a truly all-India catchment area for contributions, the present expansion is aimed mainly at strengthening the board functioning in Delhi and engaged in day-to-day work on the journal. We welcome into our board C. P. Chandrashekhar, Utsa Patnaik, R. R. Krishnan, C. Rajamohan and D. Raghunandan. Venkatesh Attreya joins us as a contributing editor located in Madras and Jacob Eapen, our former editor, shifts his position to that of an Advisory Editor. We hope that, with the expansion of the Board, we will be able to improve the quality of the journal, have a larger number of thematically-coherent issues, and over time, eliminate completely the delay in publication. Correction Three papers published by us in recent numbers, namely Terry Byres' "The Agrarian Question, Forms of Capitalist Transition, And the State" (SS 162-163), Utsa Patnaik's "Identifying the Peasant classes-in-Themse-Ives^in Rural India" (SS 162-163), and Abhijit Sen's ^Shocks and Instabilities in An Agriculture-Constrained Economy : India 1964-1985" (55-161) were originally presented at an International Workshop on Rural Transformation in Asia organised by the ICSSR in Delhi during October 2-4, 1986. We regret that this fact was not mentioned when the articles appeared in Social Scientist. __