SOCIA L s c IENTIST VOLUME 20 NUMB] ER12 DECEMBER 1992 ADVISORYEDITORS EDITORIAL BOARD AshokMitra Madhu Prasad Amalendu Gnha Utsa Patnaik IrfanHabib R.R.Krishnan Amiya Bagchi D.Raghunandan Kishore Theckedath C.Rajamohan Jacob Eapen C.P.Chandrasekhar CONTRIBUTING EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Thomas Isaac Rajendra Prasad Sanjaya Barn Atis Dasgupta EDITOR Javeed Alam Prabhat Patnaik V.K. Ramachandran Venkatesh Athreya CIRCULATION & ADVERTISEMENT EDITORIAL OFFICE C-20 Qutab Institutional Area C-20 Qutab Institutional New Delhi 110 016. Phone: 6862924 Area, New Delhi 110 016 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Inland Foreign (In US Dollars) Single issue Rs. 15 Annual: Double issue Rs, 20 Air mail 60 Annual (individuals) Rs. 150 Sea mail 50 Annual (institutions & libraries) Rs. 200 Annual (students) Rs. 100 2 years (individuals) Rs. 225 3 years (individuals) Rs. 300 (Rs. 10 extra if by outstation cheque) ISSN 0970-0293 The grant for publication from Indian Council of Historical Research is gratefully acknowledged. Social Scientist^ listed in the International Current Awareness Services and its contents are indexed in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Printed and distributed by Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt Ltd. C-20, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi 110 016.