Indian Village . By S. C. Dube. Foreword by Morris E. Opler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955. xiv, 248. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $3.00.

analysis of Indian economic change, although Henry Aubrey in an article in the December 1955 Number of the Journal of Economic History has illuminated part of the problem. It would be unfair, then, to expect Mr. Ornati to grapple systematically in his handbook with these complex and important theoretical issues. But it is unwise of him to ignore the richer and more sophisticated explanations that are necessary. It is just because the traditional analytic framework is in such a shambles, and because Mr. Ornati persists in using it, that his historical sections are inadequate for a proper understanding of the basic forces at work. At the same time, the functional aspects of Indian industrial labor problems can be found more accurately portrayed in recent volumes of the Indian Labour Yearbook. There is a useful Bibliography appended to the book. There is also a gracious Introduction by C. N. Vakil, Director of the School of Economics and Sociology, University of Bombay.