SOCIA L SCIE NTIST VOLUME 21 NUMBERS 7-8 JULY-AUGUST 1993 ADVISORY EDITORS EDITORIAL BOARD Ashok Mitra Madhu Prasad Amalendu Guha Utsa Patnaik IrfanHabib R.R.Krishnan Amiya Bagchi KishoreTheckedath Jacob Eapen D.Raghunandan C.Rajamohan C.P.Chandrasekhar CONTRIBUTING EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Thomas Isaac Sanjaya Baru Atis Dasgupta Javeed Alam Rajendra PrasadEDITORPrabhat Patnaik V.K. Ramachandran Venkatesh Athreya CIRCULATION & ADVERTISEMENT EDITORIAL OFFICE C-20 Qutab Institutional Area C-20 Qutab Institutional New Delhi 110 016. Phone: 6862924 Area, New Delhi 110 016 SUBSCRIPTION RATES InlandSingle issue Double issue Rs. 15 Rs. 20 Foreign (In US Dollars)Annual: Air mail 60 Annual (individuals) Rs. 150 Sea mail 50 Annual (institutions & libraries) Rs. 200 Annual (students) Rs. 100 2 years (individuals) Rs. 225 3 years (individuals) Rs. 300 (Rs. 10 extra if by outstation cheque) ISSN 0970-0293 The grant for publication from Indian Council of Historical Research is gratefully acknowledged. Social Scientis t is listed in the International Current Awareness Services and its contents are indexed in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. • Printed and distributed by Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt. Ltd. C-20, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi 110 016.