Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 7 JULY NUMBER 12 1979 CONTENTS Sanat Bose 3 Parties and Politics in Indian Trade Union Movement— Early Phase (1917-1924) K L Julka 13 Herbert Marcuse^s Messianic Humanism: Politics of the New Left Deb Kumar Bose 24 Industries Under the Rolling Plan NOTES Sara Rai 32 Realism as a Creative Pro- cess: Features of Munshi Premchand's Ideology Sekh Rahim Mondal 43 Kinship, Inheritance among Muslims: Socio - Cultural Consequences BOOK REVIEWS Prakash Karat 49 Blinkered View of Left Unity Ashok Dhawale 57 Memoirs of an Angry Ameri- can Malathi Damodaran 70 Health Care System Articles, notes, and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.