SOCIAL SCIENTIST NOTES K. Marx Capital Vol.III edited F. Engels (Progress Publishers Moscow.) K. Marx Theories of Surplus Value Part 11 (subtitled 'Volume IV of Capital', translated by Emile Burns, (Progress Publishers Moscow, and Lawrence and Wishart London, 1969) KarlKautsky Die Agrarfrage (1898) translated into French with the title La Question Agraire ( E Milhaud and C Polack , Paris 1900), translated into English with the title The Agrarian Question ( Zwan , London ) VI Lenin 'Capitalism in Agriculture' (Review of K.Kautsky, Die Agrarfrage in Collected Works Vol.4 Progress Publishers Moscow). VI Lenin The Agrarian Programme of Social Democracy in the First Russian Revolution 1905-1907 Collected Works , Vol. 13 (Progress Publishers Moscow). Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations edited by E Cannan , p. 56 (Methuen University Paperbacks 1961 ). We had tried to explore theoretically in what way Absolute Rent paid by petty producers in India can also constitute a barrier to the expansion of capitalist production in a paper written in 1979 and published as U. Patnaik 'Classical Theory of Rent and its Application to India with some thoughts on Sharecropping' in The Journal of Peasant Studies Oct. 1983 also included in my forthcoming book The Long Transition : Essays in Political Economy (Tulika Delhi, 1999). Published in Social Scientist, Marx Centenary Volume 11, pp 71-83 (Social Scientist Press Trivandrum, March 1984 )