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

Klappentext A major re-appraisal of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Zusammenfassung A powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence! representing 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan (University of Cambridge) Chandavarkar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.1998
• EAN: 9780521596923
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59692-3
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education