1SSN 0970-0293 Registered with the Registrar of Newspapers in India under No. R. N. 23844/72 SOCIAL SCIENTIST: Volume 15 Number 2, February 1987 ; Cultural Transaction and Early India : Tradition and Patronage, Romila Thapar ; Prostitution in Early India, Sukumari Bhattacharji; Women in Islamic Ideology, G. JavedRasool. SOCIAL SCIENTIST : Volume 15 Number 3, March 1987; The Cotton Mill Industry of Eastern India in the late Ninteenth Century ; Bhubanes Misra; ; Some Aspects of Economic Drain from India, Rama Dev Roy ; Agrarian Structure of Nellore Tenants and Tenancy 1800-1980, M. Atchi Reddy. SOCIAL SCIENTIST : Volume 15 Numbers 4-5, April, May 1987 ; World Monetary Reform : Some Needed Initiatives, 7.5'. Gulati; Active State Control Vs. Market Guidance in a Dependent Capitalist Economy : The Case of Sri Lanka-1970-84, W.D. Lakshman ; The Current Conjuncture in the World Capitalist Crisis, Prabhat Patnaik ; Structural Changes in the International Sugar Economy, Sanjaya Baru ; International Commodity Agreements : The Case of Natural Rubber, Tharian George K ; Oil Revenue and the Militaristion of Iran : 1960-1978, Mortnza Gharehaghian ; -Regulatory Policy and Industrial Growth i The World Bank View, C.P. Chandrasekhar. SOCIAL SCIENTIST : Volume 15 Number 6, June 1987; Workers, Unions and Multinationals, (?X Lieten; Class, Gender and Agrarian Change : An Analysis of the State of Female Agricultural Labour in India, Sudha Fai \ Women, Informal Sector and Perspectives on Struggles, U. Kalpagam ; New Opportunities on Old Terms : The Garment Industry in India, Maithreyi Krishna Raj ; Issues Regarding the Public Sector that Need Public Debate, K. Ashok Rao ; In Defence of India's "Marxist Establishment", EMS Namboodiripad. SOCIAL SCIENTIST : Volume 15 Number 7, July 1987; Planning and the Institutional Transformation of the Indian Economy, C.T. Kurien ; KhetmaJoor Movements : A Case Study in West Bengal (1974), Debjani Sen Gupta ; An Interview with Arnold Kettle, Asha S. Kanwar.