Social ScientistMonthly Journal of the Indian School of Social SciencesVOLUME 3 DECEMBER < NUMBER 5 1974E^»• , .\CONTENTS\ / / / Suhas Chattopadhyay 3 Inflation, Stagnal nAlternative Approach to Planning K Sivathamby 20 Early South Indian Society and Economy: The Tinai ConceptNOTESV A Gaitonde 38 An Answer to the Theory of V Convergence P Mohanan Pillai 52 Secondary School TeachersREPORT61 Economic Crisis in India and tlie Fifth Five Year Plan : Conclu- j sions of the Third All India Conference of the Indian ^ School of Social Sciencesy^ BOOK REVIEW i H S Verma 89 Metropolitan Hyderabad and | Its Region: A Strategy for Development Articles, notes and book review express the views of their authors and not ^ necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences, f^ ^