SOCIAL SCIENTIST though they defied him as "Ishwar Ka Avatar". She thus implies the existence of autonomous domain of peasant consciousness and insurgency, virtually reinforcing Shukla's pointer to these phenomenon. K.K. Sharma, in his article "Nationalist Struggle and Agrarian Movement in Bihar, 1927-1947", without trying to be pedantic, examines the nature of the linkage and tensions between agrarian struggles and the nationalist movement in Bihar. He marshals the data to show how the nationalist leadership tried to "harness agrarian discontent to the cause of the nationalist movement without taking up the class demands of the peasants", and concludes that their attempt to sweep the agrarian class contradictions under the carpet often resulted in disharmony between the two movements. Sharma's arguments are concise and coherent but his focus is mainly on the organizational level - Kisan Sabha and the Congress interrelations. Had he descended down to the ground level his investigations could have been more revealing, but probably he is handicapped by the nature of information available in official and private archives. Bhojnandan Prasad Singh and Manoj Kumar Roy in their scholarly article "Peasant Protest and Congress Leadership in Bihar, 1930-1934" join the historiographical debate over the pattern of imbrication of peasant insurgency with the Congress led nationalist movements, and unknowingly contest the analysis and conclusions of K.K. Sharma. Depending heavily on Bipan Chandra's thesis (Presidential Address to Indian History Congress, Amritsar Session 1985, later published in a book form) the writer-duo assert that the role of Congress leadership and the peasantry in the nationalist politics and movements were complementary, not antagonistic to each other. They also deprecate Subalternist exaggeration of the existence of dichotomy between the mainstream nationalism and the peasant insurgency. They argue forcefully, but the coherence of arguments and fluency of factual narration are often hamstrung by the excessive zeal for theoretical underpinnings, Ranjan Kumar in his essay, "Kisan Sabha and the Congress Socialist Party in Bihar: Cooperation and Confrontation, 1939-1955", systematically narrates the early cooperation and later rift between the two organizations during their efforts to champion peasants' cause in Bihar. He describes how the socialists by constantly goading Sahajanand from reformism to radicalism revolutionized the ideology and programmes of the Kisan Sabha, and how with the help of the rural activists provided by the Kisan Sabha, they started politicizing