two views Chakrabarty, Dipesh creator Dasgupta, Ranajit text History. New Delhi Oxford University Press 2019 monographic eng

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xliv, 66 p. 18cm (hb) Part of the 'Occasional Papers' series of CSSSC, this essay is a brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal. it 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. 0the essay asks pertinent questions about the morality of labour, history of peasant revolts, capitalist intervention, religious discrimination among labourers etc. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Dasgupta ; introduction by Janaki Nair. Includes bibliographical reference and index. Labor India Bengal History Labor India Bengal 331.095414 9780199486670 200220 20200220113054.0 21008116