Struggle for Hegemony in India 1920-47

The Colonial State, the Left and the National Movement, Volume 1: 1920-34
1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-8039-9405-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Gewicht: 550 g

This path-breaking study is the first volume (covering the period 1920-34) of a three volume study of the role of the Communist Party of India during the freedom struggle.

To aid a better understanding of the national movement and its relationship with different social groups and classes, the authors view the Congress Party and the left movement as two components of the same totality, each moving in to occupy the space left vacant by the other. In the analysis of the structure and character of the three contenders (the colonial state, the Congress Party and the left) in the triangular struggle for hegemony, the authors explore historical problems and processes in the light of Gramsci's theories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joshi, Shashi

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Hegemony and the Historical Method
The Irrelevance of Leninism
The Non-Cooperation Movement and the Birth of Workers' and Peasants' Parties
To Be or Not To Be
Communist Party or WPP?
The Colonial State, Indian Capitalists, and the Left
State, Nation and Class
Nehru's Paradigm
Towards Left Hegemony
Molecular Changes in Mass Ideology
Salt and the Steelframe
Contending Hegemonies
'Sarkar Hargai'
Of Strategies and Methods of Struggle
The Politics of Nation and Class
'Sectarianism' or Alienation?
In the Ghetto
M N Roy, Indian Communists and the Third International
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Joshi, Shashi
Shashi Joshi is former Senior Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. A PhD in History from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr Joshi began her career as a senior lecturer in History at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has also been a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. From 1983 to 1987, she was co-director of the ‘History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947’—a project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).

Dr Joshi has authored a book, The Last Durbar: A Dramatic Presentation of the Division of British India, published in India and Pakistan simultaneously in 2006. She has authored Religion, Mission and Caste: Essays in the History of Christanity in India (2008). Presently, she is finalising the manuscript for another book, ‘In Gandhi’s Arc: Charles Andrews and Gandhi’, to be published in 2012.