CONTRIBUTORS Dr AM1TA K BAGCHI is professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. ARUN PRO K AS CHATTERJEE is senior advocate of the supreme court of India and the West Bengal high court, Calcutta. Dr BARUN DE is professor of history at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences', Ca Icut ta. Dr AMALENDU GUHA is professor of economic history at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Rev Fr FRANCOIS HOUTART is professor of sociology at the Catholic University of Louuain, Belgium. ANIL RAI teaches economics at PGDAV College, Delhi University, Dr ASOK SEN is professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. P M V SRINIVASAN is research scholar in the field of history and philosophy of natural sciences, working in Madras on a life science project,