Comrades against Imperialism
Comrades against Imperialism

Author: Michele L. Louro

Publisher: Global and International Histo

Published: 2018-03

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1108419305

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Examines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to Nehruvian Socialism
My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to Nehruvian Socialism

Author: C. H. Hanumantha Rao

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789332704350

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This insightful and inspiring volume explores the major ideological and strategic developments since the 1940s, tracing the shift in the author's outlook from a Marxist in his student days to a Nehruvian. Hanumantha Rao discusses issues he faced as member of the Planning Commission under the leadership of Prime Ministers Mrs Indira Gandhi and Shri Rajiv Gandhi relating to economic planning and policies in India in the light of the Nehruvian perspective of a mixed economy with socialist orientation within a democratic set-up. This book discusses globalization and economic reforms in India in the wake of the breakdown of centralized planning in former socialist countries, along with the relevance of Nehruvian model of addressing the poverty and inequality.

Nehru and Bose
Nehru and Bose

Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9351188493

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

‘Nobody has done more harm to me . . . than Jawaharlal Nehru,’ wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? And what prompted Nehru to weep when he heard of Bose’s untimely death in 1945, and to recount soon after, ‘I used to treat him as my younger brother’? Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s fascinating book traces the contours of a friendship that did not quite blossom as political ideologies diverged, and delineates the shadow that fell between them—for, Gandhi saw Nehru as his chosen heir and Bose as a prodigal son.

Communism and Nationalism in India
Communism and Nationalism in India

Author: John Patrick Haithcox

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1400869323

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

M. N. Roy, the founder of the Communist Party of India, has been described by Robert C. North as ranking "with Lenin and Mao Tse-tung." This book, focusing on the career of Roy, traces the development of communism and nationalism in India from 1920 to 1939. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Letters for a Nation
Letters for a Nation

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-10-25

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9351188507

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In October 1947, two months after he became independent India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the first of his fortnightly letters to the heads of the country’s provincial governments—a tradition he kept until a few months before his death. This carefully selected collection covers a range of themes and subjects, including citizenship, war and peace, law and order, governance and corruption, and India’s place in the world. The letters also cover momentous world events and the many crises the country faced during the first sixteen years after Independence. Visionary, wise and reflective, these letters are of great contemporary relevance for the guidance they provide for our current problems and predicaments.

Re-Envisioning Socialism
Re-Envisioning Socialism

Author: Prabhat Patnaik

Publisher: Tulika Books

Published: 2016-01-08

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9788189487966

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The papers in this volume are informed by a perception that can be summarized as follows. A capitalist economy is a self-driven or 'spontaneous' system. State intervention in its functioning, driven by political compulsions, tends to make it dysfunctional. This necessitates either further interventions, leading to a transcendence of the system itself, or a progressive slide-back to the pre-intervention state. To say this is not to suggest that capitalism does not need the state. It does, not only for the maintenance of capitalist property relations and for providing it with the external, precapitalist surroundings that are necessary for its functioning; but also for accelerating, through its intervention, its immanent tendencies. But state intervention that is contrary to its immanent tendencies makes capitalism dysfunctional, setting up a dialectics either of subversion of or subservience to the logic of capital. It follows that all the shibboleths of capitalism, namely freedom, democracy and individual subjectivity, are actually unachievable under capitalism. They can be realized only if the spontaneity of the economic terrain is broken through the coming into being of socialism, where the nature of property relations is such that people can shape their economic lives through collective political intervention. The case for socialism arises precisely because capitalism is not a malleable but a spontaneous system.