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Book review: Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, Leftism in India, 1917—1947. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007, 272pp; ISBN: 9780230517165 (hbk)
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 211-212
ISSN: 1745-2538
Surveying and Mapping in Colonial Sri Lanka: 1800–1900 (review)
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 160-164
ISSN: 1527-8050
The Dialectics of Resistance: Colonial Geography, Bengali Literati and the Racial Mapping of Indian Identity
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 53-79
ISSN: 1469-8099
Commercial recruiting and Informal Intermediation: debate over the sardari system in Assam tea plantations, 1860–1900
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 3-29
ISSN: 0026-749X
The Dialectics of Resistance: Colonial Geography, Bengali Literati and the Racial Mapping of Indian Identity
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 53-79
ISSN: 1469-8099
AbstractThrough a study of hitherto unexplored geography textbooks written in Bengali between 1845 and 1880, this paper traces the evolution of a geographic information system related to ethnicity, race, and space. This geographic information system impacted the mentality of emerging educated elites in colonial India who studied in the newly established colonial schools and played a critical role in developing and articulating ideas of the territorial nation-state and the rights of citizenship in India. The Bengali Hindu literati believed that the higher location of India in such a constructed hierarchy of civilizations could strengthen their claims to rights of citizenship and self-government. These nineteenth century geography textbooks asserted clearly that high caste Hindus constituted the core ethnicity of colonial Indian society and all others were resident outsiders. This knowledge system, rooted in geography/ethnicity/race/space, and related to the hierarchy of civilizations, informed the Bengali intelligentsia's notion of core ethnicity in the future nation-state in India with Hindu elites at its ethnic core.
The Paradox of Peasant Worker: Re-conceptualizing workers' politics in Bengal 1890–1939
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 47-74
ISSN: 1469-8099
AbstractThis essay explores labor politics in Bengal in the period between 1890 and 1939. It investigates numerous supposed paradoxes in labor politics such as the coexistence of intense industrial action marked by workers' solidarity and communal rioting between Hindus and Muslims, labor militancy and weak formal trade union organization. In existing historiography, these paradoxes are explained through a catch all phrase 'peasant worker'—a concept that perceives Indian workers as not fully divorced from rural society and thus were susceptible to fragmentary pulls of natal ties that acted as a break on the emergence of class consciousness. In contradistinction to such historiography this paper argues that religion, language and region did not always act as a break on workers' ability to unite. It demonstrates that workers' politics was informed and influenced by notions of customary rights based on mutuality of shared interests at workplaces. When workers perceived that management violated such customary rights, they formed alliances among themselves and engaged in militant industrial action. In such circumstances, workers' natal ties assisted in producing solidarities. By drawing upon Chandavarkar's works, this essay accords importance to the contingency of politics in the making and unmaking of alliances among workers and thus argues that in different political circumstances religious or other forms of natal ties acquired different meanings to different groups of workers.
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In: Modern Asian studies, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 47-74
ISSN: 0026-749X
Book Review: God Willing: The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 397-399
ISSN: 1745-2538
Population, Gender, and Politics: Demographic Changes in Rural North India. By ROGER JEFFERY and PATRICIA JEFFERY. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1997. Pp. xvi, 278
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 763-767
ISSN: 1469-8099
Strikes and 'Communal' Riots in Calcutta in the 1890s: Industrial Workers, Bhadralok Nationalist Leadership and the Colonial State
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 949-983
ISSN: 1469-8099
The growth of industrial suburbs with a large working-class population around Calcutta in the final years of the nineteenth century profoundly influenced the politics on the streets of the 'second city' of the British empire. The increasing concentration of a large industrial work force in the newly growing mill towns around Calcutta in these years was accompanied by frequent industrial action and violent confrontations between the colonial law enforcement agencies and various sections of factory operatives in the city and the suburban mill towns. In the 1890s, when the Indian Jute Mill Association (hereafter IJMA) extended working hours and increased the work load in the factories, Calcutta and suburban mill towns witnessed numerous strikes. In 1895 these strikes frightened the jute mill owners so much that the IJMA pleaded with the government to reorganize police forces in the mill municipalities in order to protect the European managerial staff from the wrath of angry workers.
Strikes and 'Communal' Riots in Calcutta in the 1890s
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 949-984
ISSN: 0026-749X
Electoral politics in South Asia
In: Monograph / Department of History, University of Calcutta 18
Knowledge for Politics: Partisan Histories and Communal Mobilization in India and Pakistan
In: Partisan Histories, S. 111-126
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