• 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
• BISAC Subject(s): Asia / South / General

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, Professor, University of Chicago, Ranajit Dasgupta, Professor, Indian, Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor, CSSC

Dipesh Chakrabarty: Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago