CONTRIBUTORS PROBODH DHOR CHA KRABAR TI is a research scholar in political science at the University of Calcutta. Dr KRISHAN DIJTT teaches history at D A V College, Mu^affarnagar. Rev Fr FRANCOIS HOUTART is professor of sociology at the Catholic Univer' sity of Loiivain, Belgium. C S LAKSHMI is research fellow of the Tamil .Nadu Council of Historical Research. Dr S K M1TTAL teaches history at Meerut College, Meerut. GHANSHTAM PARDESI is in the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. RAM NARESH PRASAD is doing postgraduate research for a Ph D at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. NAL1NI RAN JAN ROTCHOWDHURTis senior lecturer in history, B B Evening College, Agartala. Dr SHEO NA TH SINGH is deputy director, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya.