David Lehmann most suitable one, for conferences are occasions for the renewal of old networks and the creation of new ones. On this occasion I found a particularly varied combination the Chilean Oppo- sition (two activist-offcials from Popular Unity days), Indian officialdom (two IAS land reform enthusiasts), four Latin American agrarianists (two Jews, two non-Jews), several present and former Cambridge graduate students dispersed through South and South- East Asia, and even an old disused" Oxford/India network (whose tentacles reach into Cambridge, Sussex, the Ford Foundation and so on).
