CONTRIBUTORS NIRMALA BANERJEE is a Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta P 1BRAHIM is a lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Kerala SATIS H MISHRA is a research scholar at the Cambridge University B T RANADIVE is President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and a Member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) DAVID SBLBOURJVE teaches at Ruskin College, O^fatd KARTHIGESU SIVATHAMBr is Associate Professor of Tamil at the University of Sri Ltinka EDITOR'S NOTE The article "Imperialism and Science" by Anis Alam (Social Scientist Volume 6 Number 5 December 1977) appeared in the Winter 1978 issue of Race and Class. We are grateful to the editors of that journal, wterf had commissioned the article, for allowing us to use it. The co-author of the article "Land Reforms in West Bengal" (Social Scientist Volume 6 Number 6/7 January/February 1978) is Ratan Ghosh and not Ranjan Ghosh as indicated in the contents. The error is regretted.