Rajnarayan Chandavarkar

Imperial Power and Popular Politics

Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850 1950

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major re-appraisal of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780521596923
• ISBN-10: 0521596920
• Artikelnr.: 29338936

Inhaltsangabe

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.