CONTRIBUTORS ARABINDA BISWAS and NRIPEN BANDHYOPADHYAT teach at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. D K BOSE Is Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute^ Calcutta. DEBAPRASAD CHAKRABARTI and GAUTAM BOSE are at the Indian School of Social Sciences, Calcutta. RAM JAN GHOSH is Research associate at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. ANGSHUTOSH KHAN is a research scholar at the Department of Physics, University of Calcutta. ASHOK MITRA is Finance Minister, Government of West Bengal. SUN1L MUNSHI teaches at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. K NAGARAJ is a research scholar at the Indian Statistical Institute^ Calcutta. ANIL RAI teaches at the PGDA V College, Delhi University. RANJIT SAU is Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. VIJAY KUMAR THAKUR teaches at the Department of History, Patna University.