In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian social and economic development as exceptional and somehow distinct from that prevailing in capitalist societies elsewhere, and reasserts the critical role of the working classes in shaping the pattern of Indian capitalist development. Sustained in argument and elegant in exposition, these essays represent a major contribution not only to the history of the Indian working classes, but to the history of industrial capitalism and colonialism as a whole. Imperial Power and Popular Politics will be essential reading for all scholars and students of recent political, economic, and social history, social theory, and cultural and colonial studies.

A major re-appraisal of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence.
Reviews
"...I recommend highly Imperial Power and Popular Politics to the readers of Labor History. mperial Power and Popular Politics is stimulating history that is suggestive and substantively satisfying." Ian J. Kerr, Labor History
"These essays confirm the productive nature of the innovative analytical move that Chandavarkar made in enlarging the scope of Indian labor history to include the politics of the neighborhood and the city." Dipesh Chakrabarty, American Historical Review
"...a stimulating reassessment of the interplay between class relations and political discourse in the India of the Raj." Thomas R. Metcalf, Journal of Interdisciplinary History



Book Information
ISBN 9780521596923
Author Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
Format Paperback
Page Count 402
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm