Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950

ISBN-13: 9780521596923 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 402 str.

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar

Opis

Raj Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. He rejects the "Orientalist" view of Indian social and economic development as somehow exceptional, and reasserts the critical role of the working classes in shaping the pattern of Indian capitalist development. This work represents a major contribution not only to the history of the Indian working classes, but to the history of industrial capitalism and colonialism as a whole.

Recenzje

"...a stimulating reassessment of the interplay between class relations and political discourse in the India of the Raj." Thomas R. Metcalf, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Industrialization in India before 1947: conventional approaches and alternative perspectives; 3. Workers, trade unions and the state in colonial India; 4. Workers' politics and the mill districts of Bombay between the wars; 5. Workers, violence and the colonial state: representation, repression and resistance; 6. Police and public order in Bombay, 1880–1947; 7. Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896–1914; 8. Indian nationalism, 1914–47: Gandhian rhetoric, the Congress and the working classes; 9. South Asia and world capitalism: towards a social history of labour; Bibliography; Index.