THE CONTRIBUTORS PARTHA CHATTER JEE is Fellow, Centre/or Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta^ SH1BANI KINKAR CHAUBE is Fellow, Centre/or Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. AMALENDU GUHA is professor of economic history^ Centre/or Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. IRFAN HABIB is professor in history at the Centre of Advanced Study, Aligarh Muslim University. PRAKASH KARAT, president of the Students9 Federation of India, is a research scholar at j[awaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. SUNIL MUNSI is at the Centre/or Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD is member of the Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist). A J IT ROY is editor of MARXIST REVIEW, Calcutta.