OUR CONTRIBUTORS Dr V A GAITONDE is a social scientist and journalist in Bombay. Dr K ALT AN KUMAR SEN GUPTA is in the Department of history, Rabin' dra Bharati University, Calcutta. CP NARATANAN is Reader in statistics, Indian School of Social Sciences, Trivandrum. N RAM is Vice-president of the Students' Federation of India and Ph D research student at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jdwahaflal J^ehru University, New Delhi. G V RAO is a political analyst from Goa. . I J1T RO T is editor ^MARXIST REVIEW, Calcutta. Dr RAMA VARMA is a student of demography from Cochin.