Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century: Two Views

By Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Dasgupta

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.
the essay asks pertinent questions about the morality of labour, history of peasant revolts, capitalist intervention, religious discrimination among labourers etc.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199486670
• ISBN13: 9780199486670
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 7.1"