Govind S Kelkar

October 15, 1977 Portrait of a Village RAMPURA-RAMERI is a village in the district of Jaipur and is located eight miles .off the Delhi-Jaipur highway. The village has a population of 5,000. The major communities of the village are Rajputs, Brahmins, Banias (traders), Jars, and Regars (Chamars). Rampura-Rameri is known as a "progressive" village. Besides agriculture, the major industries of the village include leather-works and carpet-making. The village is provided with modern amenities of life like electricity, tap water, television, a rural bank and educational facilities upto secondary level. In retrospect, then all these amenities and institutions appear skewed in favour of the privileged communities.

for his rightist goals. Analyses of recent events in, China generally describe them as .a conflict between 'moderates' and 'radicals', Such simple categorisation of the participants in the political process in China obscures more than it clarifies because it oversimplifies a very complex set of relationships among these participants. After a careful review of political developments and the kind of alliances which had been underway since the time of the Cultural Revolution, Ginneken has grouped these alliances into three categories: 1) alliances based on political opinions and political style, 2) alliances based on institutional affiliation, and 3) alliances based on personal relations.

Science for the People Govind S Kelkar China; Science Walks on Two Legs, edited by Dan Connell and Dan Gover; Avon Publishers, 1974; pp 316; Price $ 1.75 THE book is a report on China by a 10-member delegation of Science for the People. Science for the People is a national organisation of scientific workers in the United States. The organisation's stated objectives are to analyse and respond to many conflicts between the potential value of science and its actual effects. In this book, the authors describe their visit to China in early 1973 and their view of the ways in which Chinese scientists and workers, specialists and non-specialists, interact with one another to work for common goals.