NOTES 121 In order to-b^ able to mobilize and educate the masses, some elementary freedoms of speech and organization are essential. In their absence, political work becomes restricted and dimcult. Thus a total rejection of the parlimentary system may not be at all times helpful or tactical. One has to use it to protect the available freedoms which are prerequisites for organizational and educational tasks. BIIARAT JHTJNJHUNWALA 1 Legitimacy is tlie foundation of such governmental power as ..exercised both with a consciousness on the government's part that it lias a right to govern and with some recognition by the governed of that rig hf\ (Emphasis added). International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, The Macmillan Company and tlie Free Press, Vol 9, pp 244-48. 2 Hiren Mukherjee, Gandhijiy People's Publishing House. 9 Parliamentary in that they accept parliament as representative of the masses and work solely within that framework. I use the word ''parliament^' to include the state legislatures also. 4 The Constitution of India specifies the right to private property as an ^inalienable" right, which is not the case even in the US and UK constitutions. 5 While the index of real wages of industrial labourers have remained constant at 100 between 1960 and 1971, tlie wages of agricultural labourers have fallen to 68 in Kar-nataka, 84 in AP, 87 in MP, 84 in Kerala, 98 in Bihar and 110 in Tamil Nadu. Data from Labour Bureau, and Agricultural Situation in India.