Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 8 MAY NUMBER 10 1980 CONTENTS Nico Kielstra 3 The Nature of Islamic Re- volutions Dipankar Gupta 22 The Shiv Sena Movement: Its Organization and Opera- tion, Part One Mridul Eapen 38 Trends in Public Sector Em- ployment and Earnings, Part Two NOTE Harihar Bhakta 52 Production Relations and Spatial Variation in Agri- cultural Wage Rates BOOK REVIEWS K K Das Gupta 60 Social Change in Soviet Cen- tra) Asia Sanjaya Barn 65 Capitalist Accumulation and Theories of Growth Articles, note, and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.