ISSN 0970-0293 ADVISORY EDITORS Ashok Mitra ^ fl ^ i S 1 Amalendu Cuba WUuBCll Irfan Habib {11 • ^« ^ Amiya Bagchi 0016111151 Kishore Theckedath Jacob Eapen Monthly Journal of the CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Indian ^hool of Social Sciences Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) VOLUME 15 OCTOBER Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) NUMBER jO 1987 Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shim la) 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 Prabhat Patnaik EDITORIAL OFFICE 423. V P House, New Delhi-110 001 CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISEMENT B-l. Second Floor LSC. CONTENTS J Block Saket, New Delhi-110017 Mortal Note 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES* Towards a Class Analysis of Race Relations Situations of Overseas Indians in ^ ,^ Colonial/Post Colonial Societies 3 years : Rs 150 - , , 2 years :Rs 120 -Prakash C. Jain 3 Annual : Rs 65 The Agrarian Question in India During the (Students ; Rs 50) National Movement, 1885-1947 Institutions and Libraries —K.C. Suri 25 (Annual) : Rs 100 indebtedness and the Theory of Single copy : Rs 12 agrarian Reform *Rs 3 extra if by cheque -Narendar Pani 51 (A ;• r^T^ BOOK REVIEW {Annual in US dollars} Air Mail : 50 Wage Indexation in India —Poonam Gupta and Sanjeev Gupta 68 Articles and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.