CONTRIBUTORS K T AMMUKUTTT is Economist in the rational Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, G BANDYOPADHYAY is in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. C S KRISHNA is Assistant Professor of History, Modern Christian College, Madras. ARUNENDU MUKHOPADHTAT is Reader in the Department of Agricultural Economics^ Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Kalyani, West Bengal. RAJATSUBHRA MUKHOPADHTAY is Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD is General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist). ASWINI fAL is in the West Bengal Comprehensive Area Area Development Corporation, Calcutta. JAGANATH PATHT is Reader in the Department of Sociology, South Gujarat University, Surat. V SHIVA is in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Paper used for printing this number has been made available by the Government of India at a concessional rate.