CONTRIBUTORS AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI is Professor of Economics, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. DEBESH CHAKRABORTY is in the Applied Economics Department, Jadhavpur University, Calcutta. IGNATIUS CHIT HELEN is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, G JV Khalsa College, Bombay. ^AFAR IMAM. is Associate Professor, Centre for Soviet and East European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. GEORGES KRISTOFFEL LIETEN teaches sociology at the University of Amsterdam. V RAMCHANDRAN is a social worker from Poona. VIMAL RANADIVE is Vice-President of the All'India Democratic Women9 s Association. R K SAMANTA is Scientist in ICAR Research Complex, Shillong.