TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakrabarty,Dipesh
AU  - Dasgupta,Ranajit
TI  - Some aspects of the labour history of Bengal in the nineteenth century: two views 
SN  - 9780199486670
U1  - 331.095414 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Labor
KW  - India
KW  - Bengal
KW  - History
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical reference and index
N2  - 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
ER  -