Economic and Political Weekly INDEX Vol. XIV, Nos. 1-52 January-December 1979 Ed = Editorials MMR = Money Market Review F = Feature RA= Review Article CL = Civil Liberties SA = Special Article C = Commentary D = Discussion P = Perspectives SS = Special Statistics BR = Book Review LE = Letters to Editor ACCIDENTAL DEATHS Explosion at Bargolia Colliery: Assam; AGRARIAN REFORMS Seema Guha (C) Evading Political Causes of Poverty: Issue no: 14, Apr 07-13, p.650 Preview of an FAO 'World Conference' (C) ACCOUNTING Issue no: 28, Jul 14-20, p.1147 Depreciation Practices and Dividend Decisions in Joint Stock Companies; N L AGRARIAN RELATIONS Dhameja (RA) Agrarian Relations and the Left Movement Issue no: 21, May 26-Jun 01, p.M47 in Kerala A Note on Recent Trends; N Krishnaji (SA) ADULT EDUCATION Issue no: 09, Mar 03-09, p.515 One Year of Adult Education: Education; A R Kamat (C) Agrarian Relations in a Khasi State; Bani Issue no: 51-52, Dec 22-Jan 04, p.2083 Prasanna Misra (SA) Issue no: 20, May 19-25, p.888 AFGHANISTAN Deeper Foreign Involvement: Afghanistan Bonded Labour Astir: Bihar (C) (Ed) Issue no: 11, Mar 17-23, p.577 Issue no: 38, Sep 22-28, p.1596 Caste, Class and Economic Opportunity in Mending of Fences: Afghanistan (Ed) Kerala: An Empirical Analysis; P Issue no: 45, Nov 10-16, p.1820 Sivanandan (SA) Issue no: 07-08, Feb 17-Mar 02, p.475 AFGHANISTHAN-SOVIET UNION RELATIONS Soviet Putsch in Kabul (Ed) Champaran in Historical Perspective; N Issue no: 51-52, Dec 22-Jan 04, p.2069 Benjamin (BR) Issue no: 01, Jan 06-12, p.27 AFRICA Another Episode in a History of Pillage: Farm Workers vs Rich Farmers: Class and Central African Republic; Noel Caste in a Punjab Village; Aminder Pal Castelino (C) Singh (C) Issue no: 45, Nov 10-16, p.1835 Issue no: 42-43, Oct 20-Nov 02, p.1753 Fiasco of 'Kosi Kranti': Bihar; AS (C) Issue no: 34, Aug 25-31, p.1451 1 AGRARIAN RELATIONS Rural Class Structure in Post-Independence Historical Development of Thanjavur Kisan Assam; Ranajit K Bhadra (SA) Movement: Interplay of Class and Caste Issue no: 04, Jan 27-Feb 02, p.165 Factors; Saraswathi Menon (SA) Issue no: 07-08, Feb 17-Mar 02, p.403 Settlers' Fight for Evacuee Land: Punjab; Amarjit Chandan (C) Implementation of Land Reforms: Problems Issue no: 05-06, Feb 03-16, p.188 and Prospects: Karnataka; James S X Melchior (C) Siren Call to Agricultural Labour: Bihar; Issue no: 18, May 05-11, p.799 AS (C) Issue no: 27, Jul 07-13, p.1116 In Defence of Operation Barga; Buddhadeb Bose and Asim Mukhopadhyay (LE) A Theory of Rent and Agrarian Relations; Issue no: 42-43, Oct 20-Nov 02, p.1741 Ranjit Sau (RA) Issue no: 26, Jun 30-Jul 06, p.A42 Island in an Ocean of Bondage: Bonded Labour (Ed) Towards a Functional Land Redistribution Issue no: 05-06, Feb 03-16, p.170 Programme; R K Rath (SA) Issue no: 02, Jan 13-19, p.79 New Agrarian Crisis; Gail Omvedt (BR) Issue no: 17, Apr 28-May 04, p.773 AGRIBUSINESS Women, Food and Technology: Case of India; On Class Relations in Indian Agriculture: Brita Brandtzaeg (SA) A Comment; Pranab Bardhan (SA) Issue no: 47, Nov 24-30, p.1921 Issue no: 19, May 12-18, p.857 AGRICULTURAL CREDIT Operation Barga: A Comment; Suhas Moneylenders' Management of Loan Chattopadhyay (SA) Agreements: Report on a Case Study in Issue no: 49, Dec 08-14, p.2022 Dhanbad; Hans-Dieter Roth (SA) Issue no: 28, Jul 14-20, p.1166 Operation Barga: West Bengal; Asim Mukhopadhyay (C) Priority Sector Credit; V Rangarajan Issue no: 37, Sep 15-21, p.1566 (LE) Issue no: 27, Jul 07-13, p.1109 Peasant Movement in Awadh; David Hardiman (BR) Rural Retrogression and Institutional Issue no: 24, Jun 16-22, p.1006 Finance; V A Avadhani (RA) Issue no: 26, Jun 30-Jul 06, p.A75 Peasant Movement in Peddapalle: Andhra Pradesh; Subba C V Rao (C) Small Farmer Development; Krishna Raj Issue no: 46, Nov 17-23, p.1869 (SA) Issue no: 21, May 26-Jun 01, p.913 Peasant Revolt in Bhojpur; Kalyan AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Mukherjee (C) Agricultural Economy of Kumaon Hills: A Issue no: 36, Sep 08-14, p.1536 Comment; J Bandyopadhyay and S Shiva (SA) Peasant Struggles under the British; Gail Issue no: 41, Oct 13-19, p.1733 Omvedt (BR) Issue no: 41, Oct 13-19, p.1713 AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT The Benor System; Nijanyanupi (P) Relative Efficiency of Owner and Tenant Issue no: 17, Apr 28-May 04, p.761 Cultivation: A Case Study; Manabendu Chattopadhyay (RA) Employment and Agriculture in the Draft Issue no: 39, Sep 29-Oct 05, p.A93 Plan, 1978-83; J N Sinha (SA) Issue no: 35, Sep 01-07, p.1503 2 AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Review: 'Real Truth' to Order; Nirmala New Agrarian Crisis; Gail Omvedt (BR) Banerjee (BR) Issue no: 17, Apr 28-May 04, p.773 Issue no: 40, Oct 06-12, p.1674 Waning Developmental Impact of Government Siren Call to Agricultural Labour: Bihar; Expenditure: Central Budget, 1979-80 AS (C) (C) Issue no: 27, Jul 07-13, p.1116 Issue no: 10, Mar 10-16, p.541 Tea Pluckers: Limits of Distant Concern AGRICULTURAL INCOME (C) Agricultural Holdings Tax: A Modified Issue no: 04, Jan 27-Feb 02, p.135 Scheme: A Comment [with Reply]; D Bandyopadhyay and Amaresh Bagchi Victims of Green Revolution: Punjab; (SA) Amarjit Chandan (C) Issue no: 04, Jan 27-Feb 02, p.167 Issue no: 25, Jun 23-29, p.1035 AGRICULTURAL LABOUR AGRICULTURAL LAND Bonded Labour Astir: Bihar (C) Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Case Issue no: 11, Mar 17-23, p.577 Study; K P Kannan (RA) Issue no: 09, Mar 03-09, p.M13 Employment, Income and Food Intake among Agricultural Labour Households; P G K AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY Panikar (SA) Import Substitution in Machinery and Issue no: 34, Aug 25-31, p.1464 Transport Equipment Sector, 1960-70; Vidya Pitre (SA) Farm Workers vs Rich Farmers: Class and Issue no: 29, Jul 21-27, p.1212 Caste in a Punjab Village; Aminder Pal Singh (C) AGRICULTURAL PLANNING AND POLICY Issue no: 42-43, Oct 20-Nov 02, p.1753 Agricultural Economy of Kumaon Hills: Threat of Ecological Disaster; Madhava Island in an Ocean of Bondage: Bonded Ashish (SA) Labour (Ed) Issue no: 25, Jun 23-29, p.1058 Issue no: 05-06, Feb 03-16, p.170 Agricultural Planning and Policy in Draft Moneylenders' Management of Loan Sixth Plan: Will Farmers Fulfill Agreements: Report on a Case Study in Planners' Expectations?; N S S Narayana Dhanbad; Hans-Dieter Roth (SA) and Kirit S Parikh (SA) Issue no: 28, Jul 14-20, p.1166 Issue no: 30-32, Jul 28-Aug 17, p.1295 Plight of Migrant Labour: Punjab; Amarjit Employment and Agriculture in the Draft Chandan (Ed) Plan, 1978-83; J N Sinha (SA) Issue no: 17, Apr 28-May 04, p.755 Issue no: 35, Sep 01-07, p.1503 Population Pressure and Labour The Old and the New in Indian Absorbability in Agriculture and Agriculture; V M Rao (BR) Related Activities: Analysis and Issue no: 28, Jul 14-20, p.1157 Suggestions Based on Field Studies Conducted in Punjab; Manmohan H K Singh The Old and the New in Indian (SA) Agriculture; V M Rao (BR) Issue no: 11, Mar 17-23, p.593 Issue no: 28, Jul 14-20, p.1157 Real Wage Rates of Agricultural Labourers Organisational Problems of Small Farmer in Punjab, 1961-77: A Preliminary Development Administration; Amal Ray Analysis; Sheila Bhalla (RA) (RA) Issue no: 26, Jun 30-Jul 06, p.A57 Issue no: 51-52, Dec 22-Jan 04, p.A161 3 AGRICULTURAL PLANNING AND POLICY Wrong Props (Ed) Small Farmer Development; Krishna Raj Issue no: 19, May 12-18, p.825 (SA) Issue no: 21, May 26-Jun 01, p.913 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION Agricultural Prices, Production and AGRICULTURAL POLICY Growth; S K Ray, Ralph W Cummings, Jr 'People's Participation' Becomes Modish: and Robert W Herdt (RA) Agriculture; Sumanta Banerjee (C) Issue no: 39, Sep 29-Oct 05, p.A97 Issue no: 35, Sep 01-07, p.1496 Agricultural Resources in Underdeveloped The Benor System; Nijanyanupi (P) Countries: Competition between Man and Issue no: 17, Apr 28-May 04, p.761 Animal; Ernest Feder (SA) Issue no: 30-32, Jul 28-Aug 17, p.1345 Crop Insurance: Need for a New Approach; A K Agarwal (RA) Indian Planning in the Eighties; Yoginder Issue no: 39, Sep 29-Oct 05, p.A125 K Alagh (SA) Issue no: 30-32, Jul 28-Aug 17, p.1273 FAO and Poverty; A J Ledesma (LE) Issue no: 36, Sep 08-14, p.1525 Indo-US Relations, 1947-1976; S H Deshpande (BR) Producer Levy, Evasion and Income Loss: Issue no: 03, Jan 20-26, p.110 Empirical Evidence from Coastal Districts of Andhra Pradesh; K Subbarao More Uneven Growth (Ed) (RA) Issue no: 23, Jun 09-15, p.953 Issue no: 12-13, Mar 24-Apr 06, p.A2 New Agrarian Crisis; Gail Omvedt (BR) Wooing the 'Kisan': The Economy; BM Issue no: 17, Apr 28-May 04, p.773 (Ed) Issue no: 01, Jan 06-12, p.2 Relative Efficiency of Owner and Tenant Cultivation: A Case Study; Manabendu AGRICULTURAL PRICES Chattopadhyay (RA) Agricultural Prices, Production and Issue no: 39, Sep 29-Oct 05, p.A93 Growth; S K Ray, Ralph W Cummings, Jr and Robert W Herdt (RA) Rural Employment: Facts and Issues; M L Issue no: 39, Sep 29-Oct 05, p.A97 Dantwala (SA) Issue no: 25, Jun 23-29, p.1048 Deceptive Stability (Ed) Issue no: 05-06, Feb 03-16, p.169 Technological Potentialities of Peasant Agriculture; P C Joshi (RA) Explaining Price Behaviour; D M Nachane Issue no: 26, Jun 30-Jul 06, p.A47 (BR) Issue no: 25, Jun 23-29, p.1045 Transfer of Technology and Agricultural Development in India; G S Bhalla Farm Prices and Class Bias in India; D S (RA) Tyagi (RA) Issue no: 51-52, Dec 22-Jan 04, p.A130 Issue no: 39, Sep 29-Oct 05, p.A111 Trends in Agriculture in India, 1949-50 - Irrelevance of APC: Pulses (Ed) 1977-78; T N Srinivasan (SA) Issue no: 49, Dec 08-14, p.1982 Issue no: 30-32, Jul 28-Aug 17, p.1283 AGRICULTURAL PRICES COMMISSION Waning Developmental Impact