Articles by N Krishnaji

Family Size, Levels of Living and Differential Mortality in Rural India Some Paradoxes N Krishnaji The family size and death rate paradoxes discussed in this paper arise wholly out of the inappropriate use of per-capita expenditure for analysing demographic differentials. The paradoxes disappear once an appropriate variable, such as property holdings, in brought into the analysis. The issue has far- reaching implications, not only for our understanding of demographic differentials hut also for measurement of poverty.

A Sceptical Note with Special Reference to Agriculture N Krishnaji This paper shows that observations generated from a technology with fixed coefficients can be approximated welt by a Cobb-Douglas function with constant returns-to-scale. The approximation is shown to be robust with respect to both heterogeneity in input-output ratios and aggregation, under reasonable assumptions.

N Krishnaji In the Wake of Naxalbari: A History of the Naxalite Movement in India by Sumanta Banerjee; Subarnarekha, Calcutta, 1980: pp xii +
THE Naxalbari movement was hailed as "Spring Thunder over India". The analogy is in a sense inappropriate for this was no seasonal burst; it had roots in the past and its quick spread to other areas changed the horizon of politics in India as no other left movement has since Independence. It held promise but it failed. But the questions it raised are still relevant, The nature and course of the movement in Naxalbari, Srikakulam and other areas is historically linked to the earlier experience of Indian communists. Tebhaga, Telengana and the subsequent preoccupation with electoral politics are all parts of this experience. But in some respects it was unique in Indian history. The movement that followed in the wake of Naxalbari in areas such as Srikakulam made a more forceful demonstration than did Telengana that armed struggle can be real; and that liberated zones, peoples' courts, and seizure of political power need not remain entirely imaginary.

Familiar Story N Krishnaji Anatomy of a Peasant Economy: A Rice Village in the Philippines by Y Hayami in association with M Kikuchi, P F Moya, L M Bambo and E B Marciano; International Rice Research Institute Manila

January 13, 1879 People's Science Movements A Vaidyanathan N Krishnaji K P Kannan THERE has been a growing realisation among scientists and social workers that science and scientific research in India, as presently taught and practised, has acquired an elitist character with little or no relevance to or concern for the needs of the people. This has led to the emergence of a number of voluntary organisations ranging from those explicitly oriented towards the 'popularisation of science to those which seek to inculcate among the masses a scientific approach to understanding society and social Lange as a necessary pre-condition for progressive social transformation. These groups, spread all over India, vary in size and scope ranging from small groups working on particular problems in a limited area to a mass movement like the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Pari- shad (KSSP). A significant feature of these new activities is that they have begun to attract highly trained scientists and technologists who have become disenchanted with the relevance of what they have learnt and what they are doing in the 'scientific establishments