Articles by Gail Omvedt

THE title of this book is partly a misnomer since it deals only with peasant struggles of the colonial period, thus avoiding some of the major practical and theoretical issues raised by such recent struggles as Naxalbari and the current upsurge of caste-enveloped agrarian class conflict. But within these limits it is a useful contribution. A R Desai has brought together selections from some of the most important works of left activists- theoreticians (Natarajan, Sundarayya, ikhbir Choudhury, Sunii Sen), some academic articles, selections from the British and from some of the early Kisan Sabha leaders themselves.

econometric model. As in the case of any pioneering effort, it is not free of defects. Possibly the most useful outcome of this work will be to motivate THE threat of famine hangs over Kampuchea today. And it is a terrible irony that this time it comes not with an imperialist invasion but on the heels of a "socialist" one, and not simply because the armies have disrupted agricultural production but as the result of a deliberate developmental policy emphasising high-technology "modernisation'' (Kampuchea is lated to join the Mekong Develop- ment Project once Vietnam can convince the other members to let it in) and integration with the world market economy with all its implications, including allowing all the middle class bureaucrats and "experts" to return to Pnomh Penh. Even more pathetic is the recent statement of the Vice- Minister for Foreign Affairs illustrating the accepted new dependence: "We cannot rebuild our country with our own hands. We need the help of socialist nations and peace-loving peoples all over the world... We need the assistance of all the peoples and organisations of the world" (Times of India, May 26). It is as if Kampuchea were Bangladesh in 1973-74

This paper attempts to survey the history of Dalit struggles in relation to the national movement and the communist movement and to bring to the fore the important role the Dalit movement has played in the democratic movement of the country and is going to play in the new democratic struggles in the future. 

got a $ 500 million contract for the construction of a pipeline. Siam Cement got a $ 50 million loan arranged by the Chemical Bank and Guaranty Trust of the USA.

The Bourgeois State in Post-Colonial Social Formations Bharat Patankar Gail Omvedt Two important changes have occurred since the end of the second world war which serve to characterise a different phase of imperialism. These are, first, a change in the character of the State in most third world countries from a colonial state to a politically independent bourgeois State and, second, a change in the mechanisms through which the imperialist system dominates the third world.