Utsa Patnaik is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. One of the country’s foremost scholars on agrarian issues, she has authored The Long Transition: Essays on Political Economy (Tulika, New Delhi, 1999), Peasant Class Differentiation (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1987) and The Agrarian Question and the Development of Capitalism in India (OUP, New Delhi, 1986).