CONTRIBUTORS V B ATHJR.ETA is follow at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. ADHIR CHAKRAVARTI is professor of history at Jhargram Raj College, University of Calcutta. ARLENE KAPL AN DANIELS is director. Programme for Women^ North-western University Euanston^ USA. E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD is member of the Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist). MOIN SHAKIR i^ in the department of political science, Marathwada Univer-sity^ Aurangabad.