Politics and Left Unity in India: The United Front in Late Colonial India

ISBN-13: 9780367889180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

William F. Kuracina

Opis

This book proposes that, for socialists and communists, unity was not just an ideal, but was considered to be a realizable goal. Rather than focusing exclusively on ideological fissures as the literature does, the book explores the possibilities for unity. The author investigates the United Front as a conceptual framework for collaboration.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Foundations of the United Front

2. United Front as Mass Activism

3. United Front within the Congress

4. Congress as United Front

5. Conflict about Unity

6. "Unity in action" and the "fighting alliance"

7. Twilight of the United Front

8. The "Pioneers of Unity"

O autorze

William F. Kuracina is Head of the History Department at Texas A&M University–Commerce, US. He is the author of The State and Governance in India: The Congress Ideal, also published by Routledge (2010).