Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 10 FEBRUARY NUMBER 2 1982 Editor CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik Editorial Note 1 Editorial Board El Salvador: Towards Another Viet- Jacob Eapen nam Kitty Menon — Sujit Dutta 4 Madhu Prasad Neutron Bomb: American Dream and Editorial Office Global Nightmare — C Raja Mohan 18 423, V P House, New Delhi-110001 Communalism and Communal Vio- lence in India Circulation and — Zoya Khaliq Hasan 25 Advertisement PB No 116 On the Problem of a Theory of Trivandrum-695 001 Knowledge in Marx — Satinath Chakraborty 40 Subscription Rates INLAND NOTE Single Copy : Rs 6 (Rs 8 in Bangladesh, Technology Policy and Self-Reliance Pakistan and — M J K Thavaraj 56 Sri Lanka) Annual : Rs 65 Half-yearly : Rs 35 BOOK REVIEWS FOREIGN (Annual in US Essays in Honour of Dr Gyanchand dollars) — Ashok Mitra 63 ^ea Mail: 18 Air Mail: 30 (USA and Canada) 24 Infra-Firm Trade and Developing Countries (Other countries) — Venkataraman Bhaskar 65 Articles^ note and review express the vie-ws of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.