The Indian Railways Strike of 1974
Author: Stephen Sherlock
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 532
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The Indian Railways Strike of 1974
Author: Stephen Sherlock
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9788171675395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of relationship amongst the railway workers, unions and the state during 1960-74 and their role in bringing about a countrywide railway strike in 1974. The author examines the rejection of the officially sanctioned unions by many railway workers and their attempts to give shape to new organisations which better articulated their interests.Part One of the book analyses the structural relationship amongst the officially recognised unions, railway workers and the management, and the reasons for the recognised unions' declining support. Part Two discusses the strategies followed by the recognised unions to undermine the new unions. Part Three traces the course of the 1974 strike itself and the government's decision to crush the strike.
India's Railway History
Author: John Hurd II
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-08-03
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9004230033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.
The Crisis of 1974
Author: Raṇabīra Samāddāra
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789384082963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book on the Indian Railway Strike of 1974 looks at the history of the time, the role of the rank and file in the strike, and the fate of the strike itself. Even as one of the most distinctive aspects of the strike was the autonomy of the rank and file, the significance of the struggle had much to do with the nature of the time. The country was in the midst of a general political crisis, sections of the peasantry were in revolt, and there were expressions of solidarity from the industrial working class. However, the strike leadership was not resolute and decisive, and failed the rank and file. In the absence of a political vanguard, the uprising was left without a determined subject. The railwaymen did not transform India, but established for the first time in the political history of post-Independent India the autonomy of the political practice of masses. Suddenly, the strike had opened up a vision whose infinite nature unnerved both the party of order and the parties of constitutional opposition.
India Since Independence: Making Sense Of Indian Politics
Author: Ananth V. Krishna
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9788131734650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrewing Resistance
Author: Kristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-29
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1108857868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized. Various groups fought for the social justice but in response, Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi suspended the constitution, and with it, civil liberties. The hope of decolonization that had turned to disillusion in the postcolonial period quickly descended into a nightmare. In this book, Kristin Plys recounts the little known story of the movement against the Emergency as seen through New Delhi's Indian Coffee House based on newly uncovered evidence and oral histories with the men who led the movement against the Emergency.
The Quest for Modern Assam: A History
Author: Arupjyoti Saikia
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2023-08-28
Total Pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9357082123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A model work of historical scholarship'-Ramachandra Guha 'The most well-researched, comprehensive history of contemporary Assam ever written'-Partha Chatterjee The crucial battles of World War II fought in India's north-east-followed soon after by Independence and Partition-had a critical impact on the making of modern Assam. In the three decades following 1947, the state of Assam underwent massive political turmoil, geographical instability, and social and demographic upheaval, among others. Later, the truncated state suffered widespread unrest as various groups believed their cultural identity and political leverage were under threat. New social energies and political forces were unleashed and came to the fore. Definitive, comprehensive and unputdownable, The Quest for Modern Assam explores the interconnected layers of political, environmental, economic and cultural processes that shaped the development of Assam since the 1940s. It offers an authoritative account that sets new standards in the writing of regional political history. Not to be missed by any one keen on Assam, India, Asia or world history in the twentieth century.
India Since Independence: Making Sense of Indian Politics
Author: Ananth
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 8131742822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia Since Independence: Making Sense of Indian Politics is a comprehensive account of India's post-independence political history. It discusses the emergence of Mahatma Gandhi,the role of Indian capitalists in the freedom struggle, the predominance of the Congress party, rise of Indira Gandhi, Congress split of 1969, the infamous Emergency of 1975, the decline of the party, and the formation and demise of the Janata Party. It covers the political scenario in various states; the Bofors scandal; and the Ayodhya campaign.
State and Capital in Independent India
Author: Chirashree Das Gupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-11-02
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1316758958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a historical account of the relationship between state and capital from independence to the liberalization episodes of the 1980s and after. It provides a focused analysis of the organization of business houses, corporate governance structures, labour laws, and the institution of the family and personal laws, and explains the institutional basis of regional differences in accumulation and uneven development in independent India. By addressing questions of agrarian, capital, technology and fiscal constraints which were characteristic of the economy at independence, this book provides an insightful study of the political economy of the role of changing social relations in India after independence.
Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age
Author: Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3319632876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age. Those who study Marx, particularly in the West, often lack an understanding of post-colonial realities; conversely, however, those who fashion post-colonial theory often have an inadequate understanding of Marx. Many think that Marx is not relevant to critique postcolonial realities and the legacy of Marx seldom reaches the post-colonial countries directly. This work will read Marx in the contemporary post-colonial condition and elaborate the current dynamics of post-colonial capitalism. It does this by analysing contemporary post-colonial history and politics in the framework of inter-relations between the three categories of class, people, and postcolonial transformation. Examining the structure of power in postcolonial countries and revisiting the revolutionary theory of dual power in that context, it appreciates and explains the transformative potentialities of Marx in relation to post-colonial condition.
