S O C IAL SCIENTIST
VOLUME 25 NUMBERS 9-10 SEP.-OCT. 1997
ADVISORY EDITORS EDITORIAL BOARD
Ash ok Mitra Madhu Prasad
Amalendu Guha Utsa Patnaik
Irfan Habib 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 Baru
Atis Dasgupta EDITOR
Javeed Alam Prabhat Patnaik
V.K. Ramachandran
Venkatesh Athreya
CIRCULATION & ADVERTISEMENT EDITORIAL OFFICE
35A/1 (Sec. floor) Shahpur Jat, 35A/I (Sec. floor) Shahpur Jat,
Near Asiad Village, New Delhi 110 049 Near Asiad Village,
Phone: 649 7999, 649 1448 New Delhi 110 049
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Inland Foreign (In US Dollars)
Single issue Rs. 20 Annual:
Double issue Rs. 30 Air mail
Annual (individuals) \ Rs. 200 Sea mail 50
Annual (institutions & libraries) Rs. 350
Annual (students) Rs. 125
2 years (individuals) Rs. 300
3 years (individuals) Rs. 400
(Rs. 20 extra if by outstation cheque) ISSN 0970 - 0293
The grant for publication from Indian Council of Historical Research is gratefully
acknowledged.
Social Scientist is listed in the International Current Awareness Services and its contents are
indexed in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.
This issue is printed in Septemberl998
Printed and distributed by Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt. Ltd.
35A/I (Second floor) Shahpur Jat, Near Asiad Village, New Delhi 110 049