SOCIAL SCIENTIST VOLUME 22 NUMBERS 5-6 MAY-JUNE 1994 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. Phone: 6862924 Greater Kailash I, New Delhi-48 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Inland Foreign (In US Dollars) Single issue Rs. 15 Annual: Double issue Rs. 20 Airmail 60 Annual (individuals) Rs. t50 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 Scientists 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. R-271 (Lower ground floor) Greater Kailash I, New Delhi 110 048.