CONTRIBUTORS ANIS ALAM is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex^ England. DAVID ARNOLD is Research officer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. ^ ANIL BARAN RAY is Reader, Department of Political Science, University of Burdwan, West Bengal. N RAM is Associate Editor of The Hindu, Madras. EDITOR'S NOTE In the article on "State Intervention in the Sugar Economy" (Social Scientist, Volume 6 Number 4 November 1977) the following acknowledgement was omitted: "The author wishes to express his gratitude to N Krishna ji for his guidance and encouragement in the preparation of this paper. Thanks are due to.K. N Raj, I S Gulati, P J Manohar Rao, S K Rao, Chandan Mukharjee and C P Ghandrasekhar for helpful discussions and valuable suggestions."