CONTRIBUTORS H JV GOHAIJV is Reader in English at the Gauhati University, Gauhati, Assam. KRISHNAN HARIHARAN is a film maker, Yukt Cooperative, Bombay. RAJU KURIAN is a research scholar at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. CLAUDE MEILLASSOUX is Professor at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. SARASWATHI MENON is a research scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 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).