Some aspects of the labour history of Bengal in the nineteenth century: two views
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Beteiligte Personen: Chakrabarty, Dipesh 1948- (VerfasserIn), Das Gupta, Ranajit 1932-1998 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First Edition
Schriftenreihe:Social science across disciplines
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Abstract:Part of the 'Occasional Papers' series of CSSSC, this essay is a brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal. it posits that this consciousness is not a mechanical outcome of the capitalist mode of production, it is not a thing but a process; that even failure must be taken on board in order to flesh out that process; that not only was the working class present (and therefore conscious) of its own making, but drew from rich pre-capitalist cultural traditions of dissent, rebellion and republicanism. 0the essay asks pertinent questions about the morality of labour, history of peasant revolts, capitalist intervention, religious discrimination among labourers etc
Umfang:xliv, 66 pages 18 cm
ISBN:9780199486670