CONTRIBUTORS DEBESH CHAKRABORTY is in the Department of Economics, Jadhav pur University, Calcutta. DIPANKAR GUPTA is with the Centre/or Social Studies,,Surat, IRFAN HABIB teaches history in DAV Post-graduate College, Buland-shahr. ^OYA HASAN is with Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. RAJU KURIAN is a research scholar at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. S K MITTAL teaches in the Department of History, Meerut College, Uttar Pradesh. E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). GAIL OMVEDT is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. Paper used for printing this number has been made available by the Government of India at a concessional rate.