Articles by N K Chandra

N K Chandra India Mortgaged : A Marxist-Leninist Appraisal by T Nagi Reddy; Tarimela Nagi Reddy Memorial Trust, Anantapuram, Andhra Pradesh, 1978; pp xxiv+407, hardcover Rs 40 and paperback Rs 25.

November 26, 1977 WEST BENGAL LAND REFORMS BILL-I Major Move against Semi-Feudal Tenancy THE West Bengal Land Reforms' (Amendment) Bill, 1977, passed by the State Assembly at its last session, marks an important step forward. With consummate skill Benoy Chow- dhury, the veteran peasant leader and now the Minister of Land and Land Revenue, piloted the bill through the Assembly in an astonishingly short period of a couple of days. For once, all the Left parties, including those in opposition like the CPI, the SUC and the CPI(M-L) represented by San tosh Rana backed Benoy Chow- dhury to the hilt against the combined onslaught of Janata and Congress. True to their class character the spokesmen of these two parties expressed vague sentiments in favour of the rural poor, but wanted to kill time by referring the bill to a select committee; once the demand was refected, they walked out of the House, It was not a case of a storm in a tea cup. The issues at stake are rather far-reaching. The three-and-a- half-page bill has three major provisions.

of Gains N K Chandra This paper starts with the premise that for nearly every Third World country some economic relations with the USSR is incomparably more advantageous than exclusive reliance on the Western imperialist group of nations. What, however, is not clear is the distribution of gains, which, this paper seeks to examine.

This paper has attempted to investigate a few related aspects of the manifold economic ties between India and the Western powers. Much of the present structure of the relationships has been historically determined by nearly two centuries of British ride. Yet the attainment of political freedom by India and most other countries in the third world has bred the illusion that the latter group of countries ipso facto pursue their national interests in their dealings with their ex-masters.

N K Chandra The Muslim League, the main political force behind the creation of Pakistan, was from its inception dominated by two classes: the zamindars from north-west India and the traders from western India. Even after the numerically dominant poor Muslim peasants from East Bengal rallied to the League, its organisation remained very firmly under the control of these two classes.