Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS Mw"^ f'""'^"", , . Ashok Mitra Indian School of Social Sciences Amalendu Guha VOLUME 16 JULY IrfanHabib NUMBER 7 1986 Amiya Bagchi Kishore Theckedath CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shimla) V K Ramachandran (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD Jacob Eapen Madhu Prasad MANAGING EDITOR Rajendra Prasad EDITOR Prabhat Patnaik CONTENTS EDITORIAL OFFICE 423, V P House, New Delhi-110 001 Editorial Note , CIRCULATION AND uses and Limits °f Foucault : A Study of ADVERTISEMENT the Theme °f Origins in Edward B-l. Second Floor LSC. saidfs 'Orientalism' J Block Saket. —Rashmi Bhatnagar 3 New Delhi-110017 After 'Orientalism': Colonialism and SUBSCRIPTION RATES* E^lish ^^V studies m India ^ . —-Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 23 INLAND 3 years :Rs 150 Oriental Phantoms 2 years : Rs 120 -Kalpana Sahni 36 Annual : Rs 65 Orientalism and Architectural Culture (Students : Rs 50) —Sibel Bozdogan 46 Institutions and Libraries :Rs 100 NOTE Single copy : Rs 6 Coconut Economy of Kerala *Rs 3 extra if by cheque —Ajoy Mathew 59 FOREIGN BOOK REVIEW (Annual in US dollars) ^^ ^ j^ Air Mail : 50 —Nina Rao 71 Articles and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.