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On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 and Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, c. 1850–1950, Ian Kerr's Building the Railways of the Raj, Dilip Simeon's The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928–1939, Janaki Nair's Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore and Chitra Joshi's Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories

On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the... Historical Materialism , volume 12:3 (285–313) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Stokes 1978. REVIEW ARTICLES The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 R AJ C HANDAVARKAR Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Building the Railways of the Raj I AN K ERR Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928–1939 D ILIP S IMEON Delhi: Manohar, 1995. Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, c. 1850–1950 R AJ C HANDAVARKAR Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore J ANAKI N AIR New Delhi: Sage, 1998. Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories C HITRA J OSHI Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003. Reviewed by S UMIT S ARKAR The Return of Labour to South-Asian History I Some thirty years ago, Eric Stokes had hailed ‘the return of the peasant’ to modern Indian history. 1 And, indeed, studies of peasant protest and of ‘autonomous‘ or ‘indigenous’ forms of popular, predominantly rural, culture came to be prioritised in HIMA 230_f15_284-313II http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 and Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, c. 1850–1950, Ian Kerr's Building the Railways of the Raj, Dilip Simeon's The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928–1939, Janaki Nair's Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore and Chitra Joshi's Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories

Historical Materialism , Volume 12 (3): 285 – Jan 1, 2004

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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Historical Materialism , volume 12:3 (285–313) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Stokes 1978. REVIEW ARTICLES The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 R AJ C HANDAVARKAR Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Building the Railways of the Raj I AN K ERR Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928–1939 D ILIP S IMEON Delhi: Manohar, 1995. Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, c. 1850–1950 R AJ C HANDAVARKAR Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore J ANAKI N AIR New Delhi: Sage, 1998. Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories C HITRA J OSHI Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003. Reviewed by S UMIT S ARKAR The Return of Labour to South-Asian History I Some thirty years ago, Eric Stokes had hailed ‘the return of the peasant’ to modern Indian history. 1 And, indeed, studies of peasant protest and of ‘autonomous‘ or ‘indigenous’ forms of popular, predominantly rural, culture came to be prioritised in HIMA 230_f15_284-313II

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