Class Conflict And Modernization In India

Author : Aniruddha Bose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317333225
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Conflict and Modernization in India written by Aniruddha Bose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days of the British Raj Calcutta was a great port city. Thousands of men, women, and children worked there, loading and unloading valuable cargoes that sustained the regional economy, and contributed significantly to world trade. In the second half of the nineteenth century, in response to a shift from sailing ships to steamers, port authorities in Calcutta began work on a massive modernization project. This book is the first study of port labor in colonial Calcutta and British India. Drawing on primary source material, including government documents and newspaper records, the author demonstrates how the modernization process worsened class conflict and highlights the important part played by labor in the shaping of the port’s modernization. Class Conflict and Modernization in India places this history in a comparative context, highlighting the interconnected nature of port and port labor histories. It examines how the port’s modernization affected the port workforce and the port’s managers, as well as the impact on class formation that emerged as labourers resisted through acts of everyday resistance and organized strikes. A detailed study of state power, technological change, and class conflict, this book will be of interest to academics of modern Indian history, labour history and the history of science and technology.

Author : Giri Raj Gupta
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cohesion and Conflict in Modern India written by Giri Raj Gupta and published by Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raju J. Das
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415564
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India written by Raju J. Das and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Das deploys class theory to decipher India’s economic and political situation. It deals with the specificities of India’s capitalism and neoliberalism, and their economic consequences. It critically examines lower-class struggles led by the Left, and the fascistic politics of the Right.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922030
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Technology written by David Arnold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would question the dominant role that technology plays in modern life, but to fully understand how India first advanced into technological modernity, argues David Arnold, we must consider the technology of the everyday. Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate “big” technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India, and follows their impact on the ways in which people worked and traveled, the clothes they wore, and the kind of food they ate. But the effects of these machines were not limited to the daily rituals of Indian society, and Arnold demonstrates how such small-scale technologies became integral to new ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule and Indian nationhood. Arnold’s fascinating book offers new perspectives on the globalization of modern technologies and shows us that to truly understand what modernity became, we need to look at the everyday experiences of people in all walks of life, taking stock of how they repurposed small technologies to reinvent their world and themselves.

Author : Elizabeth Chatterjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199098808
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class and Conflict written by Elizabeth Chatterjee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, Pranab Bardhan published his classic work The Political Economy of Development in India. It went on to become one of the most influential references on the political economy of development in the pre-reform period of independent India. Class and Conflict reflects on the enduring influence of Bardhan’s original publication in the context of post-liberalization developments in India. Drawing on their own world-leading research, the contributors to this volume engage with a wide range of issues, such as whether big business dominates India today, how subsidies retard economic growth, and how the middle classes are transforming politics. Together they try to answer the big question: what has really changed in the political and economic climate of the country over the last 30 years? Exploring the continuities and changes that have characterized India’s political economy since 1984, this volume takes stock of the main challenges of India’s economic development today. It contributes to current debates on economic growth, crony capitalism, agrarian crisis, the politics of class and caste, and the role of the state in a liberalizing economy.

Author : Shapurji Saklatvala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is India Different? written by Shapurji Saklatvala and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125004226
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Change in Modern India written by Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Is A Compilation Of A Series Of Lectures Delivered By The Eminent Social Anthropologist M. N. Srinivas. These Lectures Have Been Widely Acclaimed And Have Since Been Recommended Or Prescribed As A Text For Students Of Sociology, Anthropology And Indian Studies. The Book Remains The Classic Of Social Anthropology As It Was Hailed, When First Published.

Author : Yogendra Singh
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Stratification and Change in India written by Yogendra Singh and published by Manohar Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a profile of Indian sociology in terms of its concepts and theories. It also exposes the dilemmas and structural contradictions in the process of social stratification and change in India. It particularly examines concepts and processes of caste, class and peasantry, elites, social mobility, structural dif-ferentiations, policy of reservation and its impact in SCs/STs and OBCs

Author : Hellen E. Ulrich
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170170235
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Competition and Modernization in South Asia written by Hellen E. Ulrich and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William F. Kuracina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351679392
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Left Unity in India written by William F. Kuracina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical assessments of Left unity in 1930s India misrepresent activities designed to achieve unity. The common treatment of the relationship between Indian socialists and communists emphasizes disunity and the inability to find common ground. Scholarly discussions about unity in fact highlight its impracticality and the inevitability of its failure. This book proposes that during this moment, for socialists and communists, unity was not just an ideal, but was in fact considered to be a possible and very realizable goal. Rather than focusing exclusively on ideological fissures as the literature does, the book explores the possibilities for unity. The author investigates the United Front as a conceptual framework for collaboration, as a scheme for assessing the extent to which cooperation between socialists and communists was feasible and practicable during the mid-to-late-1930s in India. He employs the notion of United Front as an instrument for identifying and compensating for the prejudices which permeate sources about the cooperation between the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI). The author challenges the historicism found in extant scholarly assessments of Left unity by illustrating the ways in which the partners engaged in united front activities and approached the common goal of Left unity despite their fragmented ideological perspectives. The book presents the United Front not as an unsuccessful phase of collaboration, but rather as a concerted attempt to achieve ideological convergence and Left homogeneity which ultimately failed to radicalize Indian nationalism because, in reality, conditions for Left unity did not exist. The book will be of interest to academics studying South Asian history and politics in particular, and socialism, communism, nationalism and imperialism more generally.