2 SOCIAL SCIENTIST \ super-structure relationship that so occupied Gramsci is illustrated by the U.K. miners' strike. Historically, even the economic struggles of British miners have had important political repercussions. In the mid-1920's, the miners' strike had triggered off the General Strike in Britain; in the early 1970's, the miners' strike had brought down the Conservative Government of Edward Heath; and now in the mid-1980's, the miners' strike has once again posed the most serious challenge to the political sway of Thatcherism. Andrew Glyn's article, which is of course economic-theoretic rather than socio-historical, sketches the economic background of the current miners' strike, and argues the economic rationale behind the miners' demand. In the process, he raises a number of pertinent theoretical points regarding the appropriate criteria of social rationality for the introduction of technical change in an industry, which students of economics should find particularly interesting. We also publish in this number the text of the report prepared by the Delhi^Science Forum on the tragedy in Bhopal. Nothing perhaps illustrates quite so vividly the utter callousness and insensitivity of our elite as the rapidity with which the tragedy in Bhopal has been forgotten. By publishing this report, we hope to fight this forgetfulness. At a later stage we propose to bring out a special number of Social Scientist devoted to an examination of .the operation of multinational corporations in our country. We urge the readers to make use of the wealth of information provided in the report for bringing home to as many people as possible the truth about the Bhopal tragedy; that is the least we owe to the memory of the Bhopal dead. And finally, we publish a review article by Suranjan Chatterjee on the Cambridge Economic History volume on modern India which regrettably had to be excluded at the last moment from our December -special number owing to space constraints.