Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 7 JANUARY NUMBER 6 1979 CONTENTS Claude Meillassoux 3 Overexploitation and Overpopulation: the Proletarianization of Rural Workers Saraswathi Menon 14 Responses to Class and Caste Oppression in Thanjavur District: 1940-52, Part I Raju Kurian 32 Patterns of Emigration from Kerala NOTE Krishna;! Hariharan 54 Eisenstein and the Potemkin Revolution BOOK REVIEWS B T Ranadive 62 On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat H N Gohain 73 On Vidyasagar's Life and Work Articles, note and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.