CONTRIBUTORS M V NADKARNI is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. PRABHAT PATNAIKis Associate Professor at Centre for Economic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. C S KRISHNA is Assistant Professor of History at Modern Christian College, Madras, MAHADEV CHAKRAVARTI is Lecturer in History, Calcutta University P G Centre, Agartala. GABRIELE DIET RICH teaches at the Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary, Madurai. SUNEET CHOPRA is State Committee Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Western UP.