Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 6 JANUARY/FEBRUARY NUMBER 6/7 1978 CONTENTS Ashok Mitra 3 Introduction Ranjit Sau 9 West Bengal : Freak of History or Yenan of India Sunil Munshi 14 Calcutta : Classes and Class Polic- ies in Metropolitan Development Arabinda Biswas 25 Problems of Labour and Enter- Nripen Bandhyopadhyay prise in West Bengal Agriculture — A Regional Study K Nagaraj ^ ^^ Reforms in West Bengal Ranjan Ghosh 6 Vijay Kumar Thakur 68 Beginnings of Feudalism in Bengal Anil Rai 83 Trends in the Jute Industry Since Independence DOCUMENT Government of 102 Industrial Policy Resolution West Bengal NOTES D K Bose 109 Unemployment in West Bengal Angshutosh Khan Gautam Bose 114 Left Cultural Movement in West Debaprasad Chakrabarti Bengal Articles, document and notes express the views of the culhors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences,