Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 7 JUNE NUMBER 11 1979 CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik 3 Industrial Development in India since Independence C S Krishna 20 Struggles of the Textile Mill Workers in the Madras Presidency,1929-1933 M V Nadkarni 35 Marketable Surplus, Market Dependence and Economic Development NOTE Mahadev Chakravarti 51 Beef-Eating in Ancient India COMMUNICATION Aligarh Historians Group 56 The RSS Coup in the ICHR : Its First Fruits Gabriele Dietrich 61 Brief Reply to a Critic BOOK REVIEW Suxxeet Chopra 66 Bourgeois Historiography and the Peasant Question Articles, note, communication and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.