Author: Publisher: Bharathi Puthakalayam
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Bharathi Puthakalayam
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Quest for Modern Assam: A History
Author: Arupjyoti SaikiaPublisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357082123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
'A model work of historical scholarship'-Ramachandra Guha 'The most well-researched, comprehensive history of contemporary Assam ever written'-Partha Chatterjee The crucial battles of World War II fought in India's north-east-followed soon after by Independence and Partition-had a critical impact on the making of modern Assam. In the three decades following 1947, the state of Assam underwent massive political turmoil, geographical instability, and social and demographic upheaval, among others. Later, the truncated state suffered widespread unrest as various groups believed their cultural identity and political leverage were under threat. New social energies and political forces were unleashed and came to the fore. Definitive, comprehensive and unputdownable, The Quest for Modern Assam explores the interconnected layers of political, environmental, economic and cultural processes that shaped the development of Assam since the 1940s. It offers an authoritative account that sets new standards in the writing of regional political history. Not to be missed by any one keen on Assam, India, Asia or world history in the twentieth century.
The Phoenix Moment
Author: Praful BidwaiPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9351775178
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
'Praful Bidwai's analysis and conclusions compel serious engagement both by academics and political leaders.' - K.N. Panikkar 'Bidwai's assessments will undoubtedly trigger further discussion.' - Romila Thapar 'Praful raises the right questions and is scrupulously fair.' - Susan George India still has a significant and relatively powerful communist movement. In spite of the massive setbacks communist parties have suffered in and since the 2014 national elections, and their general decline during the past decade, the Indian Left is a significant component of the political spectrum. It is represented in virtually every state in the form of trade unions, peasant associations, women's organizations and student unions, and in state legislatures, municipal bodies and village councils. The Phoenix Moment seeks to understand how a communist movement, almost unique within the world's capitalist democracies, flourished for so long in India, and what accounts for its initially gradual and then rapid decline. It also asks how far and in what manner the Left has accomplished its goals; whether it could have achieved more and what its future prospects are. Crucially, political analyst Praful Bidwai investigates whether the Left's core agenda of progressive or socialist transformation can yet be reinvented and restored to relevance - either with its own agency or through other forces, formations and initiatives. Given the paucity of analytical literature on the mainstream Left at the national level, Bidwai's timely and deeply insightful book fills a crucial void.
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
Book Description
Socialist Communist Interaction in India
Author: Madhu LimayePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Festschrift honoring George Fernandes, b. 1930, politician and former union minister of India, on his 60th birthday.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India
Author: V. GeethaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030803759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book offers a reading of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s engagement with the idea and practice of socialism in India by linking it to his lifelong political and philosophical concerns: the annihilation of the caste system, untouchability and the moral and philosophical systems that justify either. Rather than view his ideas through a socialist lens, the author suggests that it is important to measure the validity of socialist thought and practice in the Indian context, through his critique of the social totality. The book argues its case by presenting a broad and connected overview of his thought world and the global and local influences that shaped it. The themes that are taken up for discussion include: his understanding of the colonial rule and the colonial state; history and progress; nationalism and the questions he posed the socialists; his radical critique of the caste system and Brahmancal philosophies, and his unusual interpretation of Buddhism.
Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan
Author: Ted SvenssonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135022143
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as ‘postcolonial’ states in August 1947 constituted and effectuated. Analysing India and Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and utilizing primary data and archival materials, Svensson offers new insights into the current literature, seeking to conceptualise independence through partition and decolonisation in terms of novelty and as a ‘restarting of time’. Through his analysis, Svensson demonstrates the constitutive and inexorable entwinement of contingency and restoration, of openness and closure, in the establishment of the postcolonial state. It is maintained that those involved in instituting the new state in a moment devoid of fixity and foundation ‘anchor’ it in preceding beginnings. The work concludes with the proposition that the novelty should not only be regarded as contained in the moment of transition. It should also be seen as contained in the pledge, in the promise and the gesturing towards a future community. Distinct from most other studies on the partition and independence the book assumes the constitutive moment as the focal point, offering a new approach to the study of partition in British India, decolonisation and the institutional of the postcolonial state. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, South Asian studies and political and postcolonial theory.
Roy, Comintern and Marxism in India
Author: Kiran MaitraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Political Memoirs of an Indian Revolutionary
Author: Naina Singh DhootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Naina Singh Dhoot (1904-1989) played a pioneer role in the communist movement of the Indian subcontinent. He grew up in the Chenab Canal Colony, joined the Ghadar Party in Argentina and studied Marxism in Moscow. Returning to India in 1936, NSD established a night school at Calcutta for teaching Marxism. He revived the muzara movement in the Nili Bar and suffered police torture in the Lahore Fort. He guided major strikes of industrial workers in Jamshedpur, Amritsar and Okara. He strengthened the trade union movement of Kanpur in collaboration with R.D. Bhardwaj and S.S. Yusuf. He was imprisoned in the Deoli Detention Camp along with 260 leading communists. During the different phases of his political career, he worked in close association with Muzaffar Ahmad, Ajoy Kumar Ghosh and Harkishan Singh Surjeet. During the Partition, NSD led numerous campaigns for the prevention of communal riots and rehabilitation of refugees. Remaining underground for five years (1948-52) when the CPI was banned, he organized hundreds of workers at the Bhakra Dam site and led the muzara movement of Una to its logical end. Following the split of 1964, he joined the CPM and began to build the party from below. For nearly five decades, NSD remained involved in the struggles of the toiling masses, propagating Marxism and developing communist cadres. His personal experiences constitute an indispensable source for reconstructing the various political developments in the Indian subcontinent during the last century.
Delhi Reborn
Author: Rotem GevaPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503632121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city, this book revisits one of the most dramatic episodes in its history, telling the story of how the city was remade by the twin events of partition and independence. Treating decolonization as a process that unfolded from the late 1930s into the mid-1950, Rotem Geva traces how India and Pakistan became increasingly territorialized in the imagination and practice of the city's residents, how violence and displacement were central to this process, and how tensions over belonging and citizenship lingered in the city and the nation. She also chronicles the struggle, after 1947, between the urge to democratize political life in the new republic and the authoritarian legacy of colonial rule, augmented by the imperative to maintain law and order in the face of the partition crisis. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Geva reveals the period from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s as a twilight time, combining features of imperial framework and independent republic. Geva places this liminality within the broader global context of the dissolution of multiethnic and multireligious empires into nation-states and argues for an understanding of state formation as a contest between various lines of power, charting the links between different levels of political struggle and mobilization during the churning early years of independence in Delhi.
