Working class and the nationalist movement in India

By:

"Chatterji, Rakhahari"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; South Asian Pub.; 1984Description: 215. pSubject(s):

Nationalism

DDC classification:

320.54 Cha

Summary: This book fills a major gap in the literature on modern India's effort at nation-building by exploring the inner recesses of the relationship between the nationalist movement and working class polities. While its focus is on the critical years between 1920 and 1925, it covers a period roughly from 1870 to 1925 and beyond. It shows that during the few years from 1920 to 1925 crucial questions were raised about the role that organized working class would play in the national movement. It argues that the way these questions were answered led, on the one hand, to the exclusion of the working class from the vital process of nation- building, and on the other, to the domination of the national movement and consequently of the independent Indian state by the native bourgeoisie and the aggressive sections of the middle class from whose ranks bureaucrats as well as professional politicians were drawn.

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This book fills a major gap in the literature on modern India's effort at nation-building by exploring the inner recesses of the relationship between the nationalist movement and working class polities. While its focus is on the critical years between
1920 and 1925, it covers a period roughly from 1870 to 1925 and beyond. It shows that during the few years from 1920 to 1925 crucial questions were raised about the role that organized working class would play in the national movement. It argues that the way these questions were answered led, on the one hand, to the exclusion of the working class from the vital process of nation-
building, and on the other, to the domination of the national movement and consequently of the independent Indian state by the
native bourgeoisie and the aggressive sections of the middle class from whose ranks bureaucrats as well as professional politicians were drawn.

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