SOCIA L SCI ENTIST VOLUME 21 NUMBERS 9-11 SEPT.-NOV. 1993 ADVISORY EDITORS EDITORIAL BOARD Ashok Mitra Madhu Prasad Amalendu Guha Utsa Patnaik Irfan Habib R.R. Krishnan Amiya Bagchi D. Raghunandan Kishore Theckedath C. Rajamohan Jacob Eapen C.P. Chandrasekhar CONTRIBUTING EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Thomas Isaac Rajendra Prasad Sanjaya Baru Atis Dasgupta EDITOR Javeed Alam Prabhat Patnaik V.K. Ramachandran Venkatesh Athreya CIRCULATION & ADVERTISEMENT EDITORIAL OFFICE R-271 (Lower ground floor) Greater Kailash I R-271 (Lower ground floor) New Delhi 110 048 Greater Kailash I, New Delhi-48 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Inland Foreign (In US Dollars) Single issue Rs. 15 Annual: Double issue Rs. 20 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 S ervices and its contents are indexed in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.This issue is priced at Rs. 35/-•Printed and distributed by Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt. Ltd.R-271 (Lower ground floor) Greater Kailash I, New Delhi 110 048.