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

Raj Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. He rejects the "Orientalist" view of Indian social and economic development as somehow exceptional, and reasserts the critical role of the working classes in shaping the pattern of Indian capitalist development. This work represents 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. Imperial Power and Popular Politics Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary A B C D G H J K L M P S T U V W Z 1— Introduction 2— Industrialization in India before 1947: Conventional Approaches and Alternative Perspectives I II III IV V VI 3— Workers, Trade Unions and the State in Colonial India 4— Workers' Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay between the Wars I II III IV V 5— Workers, Violence and the Colonial State: Representation, Repression and Resistance I II III IV V VI 6— Police and Public Order in Bombay, 1880–1947 I II III IV V VI VII 7— Plague Panic and Epidemic Politics in India, 1896–1914 I II III IV V VI VII 8— Indian Nationalism, 1914–1947: Gandhian Rhetoric, the Congress and the Working Classes I II III IV V VI VII VII 9— South Asia and World Capitalism: Towards a Social History of Labour I II III Bibliography Manuscript Sources Unpublished Proceedings of Committees of Enquiry Private Papers Papers of Organizations Official Publications Parliamentary Papers His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) Government of India Government of Bombay Labour Office, Bombay Annual Reports Non-Official Reports Newspapers Published Sources Books, Pamphlets and Articles Unpublished Papers and Dissertations Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful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 exceptional and somehow distinct from that prevailing in capitalist societies elsewhere, and reasserts the critical role of the working classes in shaping the pattern of Indian capitalist development. Sustained in argument and elegant in exposition, these essays represent 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. Imperial Power and Popular Politics will be essential reading for all scholars and students of recent political, economic, and social history, social theory, and cultural and colonial studies.--Publisher description Rajnarayan Chandavarkar. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 351-376) And Index.