CONTRIBUTORS Dr DA VID ARNOLD is in the school of Social Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia, Dr D CHAKRABORTT is in the Department of Economics, Jadhavpur University^ Calcutta. Dr BINOD S DAS is in the Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. E M S Namboodiripad is member of the Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist). G PARDESI is in the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.