CONTRIBUTORS B G BAIG is a social scientist from Bombay. K K DAS GUPTA is Professor at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Poona. HETUKARJHA is in the Department of Sociology, Patna University, Patna. GOPAJOSHI is Research Associate, Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies, University of Delhi. ABANTI KUNDU is Fellow in Geography, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. SUGUNA PAUL is in the Department of Sociology, South Gujarat University, Surat. K RAMAN PILLAI is Professor of Political Science, University of Kerala, Trivandrum. K P SIGH is in the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.