Some aspects of labour history of Bengal in the nineteenth century : two views /
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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Social science across disciplines.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xliii, 66 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199486670 0199486670 |