98 SOCIAL SCIENTIST which describes the ranks from Yak-bisti to Shash Hazari, Umara and Khwanin, and drawing of the branding mark on the left flank of the horse. All this notwithstanding, many people would be looking forward to the early publication of The Apparatus, Vol. ii, and a new, re-written, text of the book, incorporating the mass of new information collected by the author himself along with the views expressed in the new books published during the intervening period. QEYAMUDDIN AHMAD Professor of History Patna University, Patna