• ISBN13: 9780199486670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• Pages: 110
• Original Price: INR 250.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 140 grams

Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversation between them in October 1981 on working-class consciousness in Bengal. The arguments posited here show that rather than being a direct, mechanical outcome of the capitalistic mode of production, working class consciousness is a process. Asking questions about the morality of labour, history of peasant revolts, capitalist intervention, and so on, this is a classic work on labour history.

Dipesh Chakrabarty is Lawrence A. Klimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago, USA. Ranajit Das Gupta was a Fellow at the CSSSC in the 19 and 0s, and later joined the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, as faculty.