ON June 26, 1975, the lights of democracy went out in India as Mrs. Gandhi imposed her now famous Emergency. Since that time, thousands of Indians have been jailed and the Indian press virtually muzzled. One of the publications to perish under the Emergency was Seminar, a monthly magazine which closed down last August rather than submit to pre-censorship. The government's move against Seminar, then one of India's leading journals of thought, was prompted in part by an article written by India's most prominent social scientist, Rajni Kothari. The Quarterly is honored to be able to present a revised version of this essay to an American audience. As a result of the views he expressed, Mr. Kothari was advised to take his family with him when he left India to take up the Ira D. Wallach Professorship of World Order Studies at Columbia University last fall, and he now lives with his wife and three sons in Leonia, New Jersey. Founder of the Centre for the study of Developing Societies, in New Delhi, Mr. Kothari is the author, among other books, of Politics in India, Footsteps into the Future, and Democratic Polity and Social Change in India: Crisis and Opportunity.

The American tendency to equate war with an athletic contest is analyzed and deplored by Bernard P. Kiernan A professor of social sciences at Concord College in West Virginia, Mr. Kiernan is the author of The United States, Communism, and the Emergent World. His interests in the relation between war and games may well derive from the fact that he is an avid chess player and a member of the United States Chess Federation. And his doctoral dissertation was an institutional study of international master chess before World War I in the context of Western culture at that time.