The Full List of CSSSC Occasional Papers

1 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta R-1 Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Calcutta 700 094 Occasional Paper Series 1. Asok Sen, ‘Iswarchandra Vidyasagar and his Elusive Milestones’. 2. Bhabatosh Datta, ‘Budget Deficit, Money Supply and Inflation’. 3. Sunil Munsi, ‘Railway Network Growth in Eastern India, 1854-1910’. 4. Dipesh Chakraborty, ‘Sasipada Banerjee: A Study in the Nature of the First Contact of the Bangali Bhadralok with the Working Classes of Bengal’. 5. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ‘Reflections on Patterns of Regional Growth in India During the Period of British Rule’. 6. Gautam Bhadra, ‘Social Groups and Social Relations in the Town of Murshidabad, 1765-1793’. 7. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, ‘Contemporary Studies on the Indian Party System: An Evaluative Account’. 8. Shibani Kinkar Chaube, ‘Studies in the Constitution and Government of India: A Methodological Survey’. 9. Nirmala Banerjee, ‘Demand for Electricity’. 10. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, ‘Comintern and the Colonial Question: The Decolonisation Controversy’. 11. Dipesh Chakraborty, ‘Communal Riots and Labour: Bengal’s Jute Mill Hands in the 1890s’. 12. Nripendranath Bandyopadhyay, ‘An Enquiry into the Causes of the Sharp Increase in Agricultural Labourers in North Bengal’. 13. Arun Ghosh, comp., ‘Research Notes and Documents Collected by the Late Pradyot Mukherjee’. 14. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ‘Choice of Techniques and Technological Development in Underdeveloped Countries: A Critique of the Non-Neoclassical Orthodoxy’. 15. Partha Chatterjee, ‘On the Scientific Study of Politics: A Review of the Positivist Method’. 16. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, ‘Trade and Empire in Awadh, 1765-1804’. 2 17. Shibani Kinkar Chaube, ‘The Ethnic and Social Bases of Indian Federalism’. 18. Debes Roy, ‘Bangla Sambad-Samayik Patre Joti Chinher Byabahar, 1818-1858’. (Use of Punctuation Marks in Bengali Journalistic Prose, 1818-1858). 19. Amalendu Guha, ‘Medieval Northeast India: Polity Society and Economy, 1200-1750 A.D.’ 20. Barun De, ‘The Colonialist Premise in the British Occupation of Bengal: Contributions by Clive and Pitt, the Elder, During 1757-59’, (Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Bhubaneswar, 1977). 21. Partha Chatterjee, ‘Thinking About Ideology: In Search of an Analytical Framework’. 22. Ranajit Das Gupta, ‘Material Conditions and Behavioural Aspects of Calcutta Working Class 1875-1899’. 23. A.P. Rao, ‘An Essay on John Rawls’ Theory of Distributive Justice and its Relevance to the Third World’. 24. Keya Deb, ‘Impact of Plantations on the Agrarian Structure of the Brahmaputra Valley’. 25. Amalendu Guha, ‘Assamese Peasant society in the Late Nineteenth Century: Structure and Trend’. 26. Indrani Ray, ‘Of Trade and Traders in Seventeenth Century India: An Unpublished French Memoir by George Roques’. 27. Abanti Kundu, ‘Pattern of Organisation in Handloom Industry of West Bengal’. 28. Subhendu Dasgupta, ‘Foreign Technical Collaboration in Indian Business Houses 1957- 76: A Quantitative Analysis’, (First published: Business Standard, Annual Number, 1980). 29. Indrani Ray, ‘The Multiple Faces of the Early 18th Century Indian Merchants’. 30. Partha Chatterjee, ‘Agrarian Relations and Politics in Bengal : Some Considerations on the Making of the Tenancy Act Amendment, 1928’. 31. N. Krishnaji, ‘Cobb-Douglas Agricultural Production Functions: A Sceptical Note’ (First published in Economic and Political Weekly, 16(42-43) 1981). 32. Hiteshranjan Sanyal, ‘Rarher Itihas Prasange Kayekti Katha’ (in Bengali) (A Few Observations on the History of Rarh, (Forthcoming in Prof. Nihar Ranjan Ray Felicitation Volume, Calcutta). 33. Subhendu Dasgupta, ‘Continuity of Linkages: A Study of Transnational Corporations in the Power Sector of India, 1947-1967’, (First published: Economic and Political Weekly, July 11-18, 1981). 34. Sunil Munsi, ‘An Enquiry into the Nature of Frontier Settlements: Case Study of Hill Darjeeling’. (First published in Geographical Review of India, June, 1981). 35. Iqtidar Alam Khan, ‘Coming of Gunpowder and the Response of Indian Polity’. 36. Keya Dasgupta, ‘The Formation of a Transport Network in an Export-Oriented Economy: Brahmaputra Valley, 1839-1914’, (Geographical Review of India, 44, 1 March, 1982, Calcutta). 37. Gyanendra Pandey, ‘Economic Dislocation in Nineteenth Century Eastern UP: Some Implications of the Decline of Artisanal Industry in Colonial India’, (Also appeared in 3 Essays on the Social and Economic History of India in the Colonial Period). 38. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ‘Merchants and Colonialism’. 39. Gyanendra Pandey, ‘Rallying Round the Cow: Sectarian Strife in the Bhojpur Region, c.1888-1917’. (Forthcoming in Subaltern Studies, Vol.II). 40. Dipesh Chakraborty and Ranajit Das Gupta, ‘Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century: Two Views’. 41. Abanti Routh, ‘Determinants of Territorial Specialisation in the Cotton Handloom Industry in Early Colonial Bengal’. 42. Javeed Alam, ‘Dialectics of Capitalist Transformation and National Crystallization: Some Notes on the National Question in India’. 43. Amalendu Guha, ‘A Historiographical Perspective for North-east India’ (First published in Man in India, 62, Sept. 1982). 44. Saugata Mukherji, ‘The Jute Industry in Eastern India during the Depression and its Influence on the Economy of the Region’. (Also appeared in Dietmar Rothermund, ed., The Great Depression and the Periphery: Asia, Africa and Latin America (in German) Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schoning, 1982). 45. Amalendu Guha, ‘The Indian National Question: A Conceptual Frame’. (First published in Economic and Political Weekly, 31 July, 1982). 46. N. Krishnaji, ‘Family Size, Levels of Living and Differential Mortality’. 47. Partha Chatterjee, ‘More on Modes of Power and the Peasantry’. 48. Debes Roy, ‘Pre-British Bengali Prose: Search for Sources’. 49. Sanjeeb Mukherjee, ‘The Indian Big Bourgeoisie and the State: An Exploratory Analysis’. 50. Amalendu Guha, ‘More About Parsi Seths: Their Roots, Entrepreneurship and Comprador Role, 1650-1918’. 51. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ‘Money and Credit as Areas of Conflict in Colonial India’. 52. Hitesranjan Sanyal, ‘Literary Sources of Medieval Bengali History: A Study of a Few Mangalkavya Texts’. 53. Saugata Mukherji, ‘Agricultural Marketing in a Colonial Setting: An Introduction’. 54. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ‘Towards a Correct Reading of Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism’. 55. Pranati Chaudhuri, ‘Refugees in West Bengal: A Study of the Growth and Distribution of Refugee Settlements within the CMD’. 56. Parthasarathi Banerjee, ‘Induction of Computers in India’. 57. Gyanendra Pandey, ‘Encounters and Calamities: The History of a North Indian Qasba in the Nineteenth Century’, (Also appeared in Ranajit Guha ed., Subaltern Studies, II). 58. N. Krishnaji, ‘Poverty and Fertility: A Review of Theory and Evidence’. (First published in Economic and Political Weekly, Annual Number, May 1983). 59. Partha Chatterjee, ‘The Colonial State and Peasant Resistance in Bengal 1920-1947’. (Also in Past and Present, Oxford). 60. Asok Sen and Alok Banerjee, ‘Calcutta Metropolitan District in the Urban Context of 4 West Bengal (1651-1981)’. 61. Sanjeeb Mukherjee, ‘The Bourgeoisie and Politics in West Bengal’ (Also appeared in Rakhahari Chatterjee, ed., Politics in West Bengal: Institutions, Processes and Problems, Calcutta: World Press, 1985. Also translated into Bengali in Aneek, 20(5) November 1983). 62. Asok Sen and Alok Banerjee, ‘Migrants in the Calcutta Metropolitan District 1951- 1971’. 63. Uttam Kr. Bhattacharya, ‘The Growth of the Machine Tool Industry in India’. 64. Amalendu Guha, ‘The Ahom Political System: An Enquiry into the State Formation Process in Medieval Assam 1228-1714’. (First published in Social Scientist December 1983). 65. Asok Sen, ‘The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism’ (First published in Economic and Political Weekly, July 28, 1984, Review of Political Economy). 66. Asok Sen, ‘Weber, Gramsci and Capitalism’. (Also in ICSSR Delhi Seminar Volume on Marx, Marshall, Schumpeter and Keynes). 67. Amalendu Guha, ‘Neo-Vaishnavism to Insurgency: Peasant Uprisings and the Crisis of Feudalism in late 18th century Assam (Also in Ashok Mitra, ed., The Truth Unites: Essays in Tribute to Samar Sen). 68. Sunil Kumar Munsi, ‘Some Observations on the Trend of Urbanisation in West Bengal’. 69. Gyanendra Pandey, ‘The Congress and the Nation, c. 1917-1947’. 70. Manoj Kumar Sanyal, ‘Price of Rice and Land Transfer in the West Bengal Districts (1905-6 - 1941-42)’. 71. Nirmala Banerjee, ‘Women and Industrialisation in Developing Countries’. 72. Keya Dasgupta and Amalendu Guha, ‘The 1983 Assembly Poll in Assam: An Analysis of its Background and Implications’. 73. Ramachandra Guha, ‘Eco-Development Debate: A Critical Review’. 74. Ruma Chatterjee, ‘Cotton Handloom Manufactures of Bengal 1870-1921’. 75. Saugata Mukherji, ‘Agrarian Class Formation in Modern Bengal 1931-1951’. 76. Hiteshranjan Sanyal, ‘Trends of Change in the Bhakti Movement in Bengal’. 77. Ramachandra Guha, ‘Forestry and Social Protest in British Kumaun, c 1823-1921’. 78. Javeed Alam, ‘Class Community and Nationality Formation: A Theoretical Exploration Through Two Case Studies’. 79. Bhubanes Misra, ‘The Cotton Mill Industry of Eastern India in the Late Nineteenth Century’. 80. Ramkrishna Chatterjee, ‘Christian Missionaries and Labour Migration to Assam Tea Gardens in Colonial Times’. 81. Bimal Kirshan Matilal, ‘Scepticism and Mysticism in Indian Philosophy’. 82. Keya Dasgupta, ‘Wastelands Colonization Policy and the Settlement of Ex-Plantation Labour in the Brahmaputra

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