Imperial power and popular politics : class, resistance and the state in India, c. 1850-1950 /

In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian social and economic development as e...

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Egile nagusia: Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan
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Argitaratua: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Aurkibidea:
  • 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 in 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, 1914-1947: Gandhian rhetoric, the Congress and the working classes
  • 9. South Asia and world capitalism: towards a social history of labour.