Some aspects of the labour history of Bengal in the nineteenth century: two views
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Main Authors: Chakrabarty, Dipesh 1948- (Author), Das Gupta, Ranajit 1932-1998 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2019
Edition:First Edition
Series: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
Physical Description:xliv, 66 pages 18 cm
ISBN:9780199486670