Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 3 JANUARY/FEBRUARY NUMBER 6/7 1975 CONTENTS Ashok Mitra 3 Current Crisis, Planning and Growth Prabhat Patnaik 22 Current Inflation in India M J K Tfaavaraj R Radhakrishna 43 Fiscal Policies and Inflation: The Indian Experience 57 Distributional Effects of Current Atui Sarma N KrishnajiE M S Namboodiripad Inflation 75 State Intervention and Food-grain Prices 91 A Worl<^ without InflationNOTES Susantha Goonetilake 97 Imperialism and Development Studies in Sri Lanka Bharat Jhunjhunwala 112 Parliamentary Process as a Stabilization Mechanism BOOK REVIEWS T G Sankaran G Ramachandra Raj 122 Planning in Crisis 126 Indian Public Schools Articles, notes and book reviews expn necessarily of the editors or of the Indian 'ss the views of their authors and not School of Social Sciences.