CONTRIBUTORS Dr CAROL A BROWN is assistant prof essor in the department of urban studies^ Queens College, City University of New York. KUMARESH CHAKRAVARTT is in the department of Bengali, Delhi College, University of Delhi. Dr, ALETAMMA GEORGE is professor and head of the department of statistics, University of Kerala. LEELA GULA TI is an economic analyst in Trivandrum. E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD is member of the Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India ( Marxis t). Dr GAIL OMVEDT is assistant professor of sociology. University of Calif ornia (San Diego). Dr MARTIN OPPENHEIMER is associate professor and chairperson of the department of sociology, Liuingston College, Rutgers University. VIMLA RANDIVE is secretary of the All India Plantation Workers9 Federation. Dr MANORAMA SA VUR teaches sociology at the University of Bombay. MTTH1LT SHIVARAMAN is vice-president of Tamil Nadu Democratic Women's Association. WANDANA SONALKAR is a research fellow with Shankar Brahme Samaj Vidnyana Granthalaya, Poona. MICHAEL THARAKAN is at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. SOPHIE M THARAKAN is in the department of English, St Mary's College (Trichur), University of Calicut.