SOCIAL s c IENTIST VOLUME 21 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 1993 ADVISORY EDITORS EDITORIAL BOARD AshokMitra Madhu Prasad Amalendu Guha Utsa Patnaik IrfanHabib R.R. Krishnan Amiya Bagchi Kishore Theckedath Jacob Eapen D. Raghunandan C. Rajamohan C.P. Chandrasekhar CONTRIBUTING EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Thomas Isaac Sanjaya Baru Atis Dasgupta Javeed Alam V.K. Ramachandran Rajendra PrasadEDITORPrabhat Patnaik Venkatesh Athreya CIRCULATION & ADVERTISEMENT EDITORIAL OFFICE R-271 (Lower ground floor) Greater I< New Delhi 110 048. Phone: 6862924 Cailas shi R-271 (Lower ground floor) Greater Kailash I, New Delhi-48 SUBSCRIPTION RATES InlandSingle issue Double issue Rs.Rs. 15 20 Foreign (In US Dollars)Annual: Air mail 60 Annual (individuals) Rs. T50 Sea mail 50 Annual (institutions & libraries) Rs. 200 Annual (students) Rs. 100 2 years (individuals) 3 years (individuals) (Rs. 10 extra if by outstation cheque) Rs. Rs. 225 300 ISSN 0970-0293 The grant for publication from Indian Council of Historical Research is gratefully acknowledged. Social Scientis tis listed inthe International Current Awareness Servicesand its contents are indexed in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. • Printed and distributed by Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt. Ltd. R-271 (Lower ground floor) Greater Kailash I, New Delhi 110 048.