SOCIAL SCIENTIST
The theoretical struggle in the realm of archaeology is an important part of the struggle against the communal forces, and we are glad to be able to publish these two papers, which, like the formation of ASHA itself, are a part of that struggle.
Jallianwala Bagh occupies a unique position in the history of India's freedom struggle. In any history of contestation of oppression, there is usually a particular turning point, a sort of qualitative break, marking a change in the character of contestation, where it ceases to be capable of accommodation and gets perceived as a "fight to the finish'. Jallianwala Bagh in our case, like the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa, was such a turning point. K.L. Tuteja's analysis of Jallianwala Bagh should be of deep interest, especially when we are recollecting our freedom struggle after fifty years of Independence. The paper's use of the term "communitarian nationalism', which is distinguished both from communalism and from supra-community nationalism, is especially noteworthy.
We also publish the results of a field-study of the sugarcane economy of Western Uttar Pradesh by Kalim Siddiqui which shows increased differentiation among the peasantry, together with greater market participation by all sections and deeper penetration of capital into agriculture in recent years.