Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century

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Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Dasgupta, Rosinka Chaudhuri

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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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Publisher	Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
Pages	112
Search language	english
ISBN_13	978-0-199-48667-0 primary

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