NOTE 85 responding to the primary contradiction located in the structure of discrimination where the question of Nepalese identity had acquired predominance over the issues of class exploitation (P. 19). Subsequent to the resolution of the ethnic contradiction, class issues could regain their original significance. It is within this framework that, an alternative analysis of the emergence or organised peasant power in the rural areas can be attempted. NOTES 1. A prominent leader of fanners' movement 2. A prominent leader of the peasant and agricultural labour movement. 3. The class differentiation among the peasantry is made on the basis of two important criteria; (a) the extent of land owned and (b) use of family labour to cultivation. The rich peasant household is one which possesses land in excess of what is possible for it to exploit fully through its own family labour and may lease-out its excess land to tenants much like the landlord household. In contrast, the middle peasant is a self cultivating household which cultivates its lands almost entirely with the help of family labour and employing casual wage labour only during brief peak seasons of harvesting or transplanting. It is left with little or no surplus. The poor peasant household is left with excess labour power, which it either sells, or it leases-in land from a landlord or a rich peasant. Production from its own lands being in deficit of its household consumption requirements, it has to participate in the tenancy or the labour market or both. A poor peasant can also be a landless tenant cultivator-cum agricultural labourer (See Patnaik 1976; Bardhan 1979; Rudra 1978). 4. In a conference convened by Jharkhand Coordination Committee (JCQ during the beginning of 1990 under the leadership of Dr. B.P. Keshri, Head of the Department of Tribal and Regional Language in Ranchi University, as many as 48 organisations and groups including the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, All Jharkhand Party, Indian Peoples' Front etc. attended. 5. The Chatra Yuva Sangarsh Vahini was established by Jayaprakash Narayan who in his last years gave a call for Total Revolution in India (1974). The Vahini was established as a non-party political youth vanguard of the movement practising satyagraha as a form of militant nonviolence (See Mukherji 1989). 6. Bhartiya Kisan Union is emerging as the national front for the various regional farmer's associations such as the Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam, Shetkari Sangathana (Maharastra), Karnataka Rajya Ryota Sangha, Punjab Khetibari Zamindar Union and so on (the last has merged with the BKU). REFERENCES Balgopal, K. 'Peasant Struggle and Repression in PeddapaUy', EPW, Vol. 17 (2), 1982, pp. 814-16. Bardhan, Pranab, 'On Class Relations in Indian Agriculture' EPW, XIV (19), 1979, pp. 857-60. Bhalla, G.S., 'Peasant Movement and Agrarian Change in India', Social Scientist, Vol 11 (8), 1983, pp. 39-57