SOCAL SCI E NTIS T VOLUME 29 NUMBERS 9-10 SEPT.-OCT. 2001 ADVISORY EDIITORS EDITORIAL BOARD Ashok Mitra Madhu Prasad Amalendu Guha Utsa Patnalk Irfan Habib D Raghunandan Amiya Bagchi C P Chandrasekhar Kishore Theckedath Jacob Eapen CONTRIBUTING EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Thomas Isaac Rajendra Prasad Atis Dasgupta Javeed Alam EDITOR VK Ramachandran Prabhat Patnalk Venkatesh Athreya CIRCULATION & ADVERTIISEMENT EDITORIAL OFFICE 35A/1 (3id floor) Shahpur Jat, 35A/1 (3rd floci) Shahpur Jat, Neai Asiad Village, New Delhi 110 049 Near Asiad Village Phone 649 7999, 649 1448 New Delhi 110 049 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Inland Foreign (In US Dollars) Single issue Rs 20 Annual Double issue Rs 30 Air mail 60 Annual (individuals) Rs 200 Sea mail SO Annual (institutions & libraries) Rs 350 Annual (Students) Rs 125 2 years (individuals) Rs 300 3 years (individuals) Rs 400 (Rs 20 extra if by outstation cheque) ISSN 0970 - 0293 Social Scientist is listed in the International Current Awareness Services and its contents aie indexed in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Printed and distubuted by Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt. Ltd. 35A/1 (3id floor) Shahpui Jat, Near Asiad Village, New Delhi 110 049