CONTRIBUTORS VERONIKA BENNHOLDT'THOMSEN is in -the Department of ' Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany. MRIDUL EAPEN is Research Associate at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER is a sociologist from Bombay BARBARA HARRISS is Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies^ University of East Anglia, Norwich. ART KEM.ASANG is a research scholar from Indonesia now working in the School of Peace Studies, Bradford University. ASHOK MITRA is Minister for Finance in the Government of West Bengal. Paper used for printing this number has been made available by the Government of India at a concessional rate.