RAMESHWAR TANDON is Research Professor at the International Institute for Special Education, Lucknow, India. For the past several years, he worked with Professor Rao at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore; also with Professor Kishwar Shabbir Khan at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He is author-editor of thirty books for the New World Order series in collaboration with Sir Hans Singer of IDS, Sussex and Neelambar Hatti, Lund University.