2 SOCIAL SCIENTIST the difference between agriculture and extractive industries, the operations in both of which are circumscribed to a large extent by natural factors, but one of which is dealing in principle with 'exhaustible resources', make a difference to the application of the theory of ground-rent in the two cases? Fifthly, since enterprise-level rationality in decision making requires an evaluation of land which can be put to attractive uses, how is this value of land to be arrived at in an economy where land is not a commodity bought and sold freely on the market? The views of a host of writers grappling with these and other such vexed questions are surveyed in Professor Dasgupta's article. Any such survey of course can be no more than just an introduction, which those interested in pursuing the subject further can then follow up. But, such an introduction is invaluable not only for those who, for obvious reasons, are interested in the theory and practice of socialism, but indeed for all, since many of these problems appear, in a transmuted form, also in an economy like ours with a different social system. Akbar Allahabadi was a curious phenomenon in the world of Urdu poetry. The wit and satire which marked his poetry was in refreshing contrast to the melancholy tenor that characterized the writings of many of his contemporaries. But, as the paper by Iqbal Husain highlights, he was also imbued with a strong sense of anti-imperialism. Despite his apparent conservatism in sticking to old-world ways and beliefs, he was remarkably perspicacious about the nature of imperialist rule, about imperialist interest in maintaining the communal divide in the country and about the need for unified struggle against imperialism. In this respect, he not only differed from, but sharply attacked those Muslim leaders who, while being apparently 'Westernized', actually soft-pedalled anti-imperialist sentiments. Literary critic, sociologist, even a creative writer and political activist, Raymond Williams who passed away recently was a major figure of the British Left. Asha Kanwar, in providing a critical appreciation of Williams' work on the English novel, locates him within a 'socialist-humanist' tradition which has come to occupy a prominent place in British radical thought, and of which Williams was both an inheritor as well as perhaps the most powerful contemporary exponent. Corrigendum: In Ashok Mitra's article titled 'Disproportionality and the Services Sector' in Issue No. 179, the second sentence of the last paragraph on page 6 should read as follows: This expansion in the government sector has little causal relationship with developments in either agriculture or industry. The error is regretted.