CONTRIBUTORS TRIDIB K CHAKRABARTI is with the Sociology Group of the Indian Institute of Management^ Calcutta. ERNEST FEDER is at the Free University of Berlin. BARBARA HARRISS is a Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. SARASWATHI MENON is a research scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. LNSHARMA is Reader in Behavioural Political Science, A Jrf S Institute of Social Studies, Patna.