Class Conflict and Modernization in India: The Raj and the Calcutta Waterfront (1860-1910)

ISBN-13: 9780367875152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 154 str.

Aniruddha Bose

Opis

This book is the first study of port labor in colonial Calcutta and British India. Drawing on primary source material, including government documents and newspaper records, the author demonstrates how the modernization process worsened class conflict and highlights the important part played by labor in the shaping of the port’s modernization.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. The Last Days of Sail

2. The Beginnings of a Modernization Project

3. A Dangerous and Difficult Workplace

4. The Culmination of a Crisis

5. The Limits of Resistance

Conclusion

O autorze

Aniruddha Bose is Assistant Professor of History at Saint Francis University, USA. His research interests lie in South Asian labor history. He is the author of "Science and Technology in India: The Digression of Asia and Europe," History Compass (February 2007).