Unish Shotoke Banglar Shromik Itihaser Koyekti Dik Duti Porjacholona |
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| Author:
| Chakrabarty, Dipesh
Dasgupta, Late Ranajit
Mondal, Anirban |
| Series edited by:
| Chaudhury, Rosinka
Chatterjee, Partha |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-949097-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2019 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $10.00 |
Book Description:
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A brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal, this book 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...
More DescriptionA brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal, this book 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.