Capital and Labour Redefined
India and the Third World
Published on 1. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-84331-069-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a historical background to the formation of the Indian capitalist class from before British colonial rule in India. It analyses the nature of that class, the ways in which it changed under colonial rule, and the state of independent India; it also sets some of the peculiarities of capitalist organization in India and the ideology of big capital in their historical context.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7+ tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84331-069-3 (9781843310693)
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Person
Amiya Kumar Bagchi is the RBI Professor of Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta.
Content
Acknowledgement; Capital and Labour at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century; The Economics of Business and the Business of Economics; Merchants and Colonialism; Reflections on the Nature of the Indian Bourgeoisie; Colonialism and the Nature of 'Capitalist' Enterprise in India; The Ambiguity of Progress: Indian Society in Transition; Wealtha nd Work in Calcutta: 1860-1921; Working-Class Consciousness; Dualism and Dialectics in the Historiography of Labour; Neo-liberal Economic Reforms and Workers of the Thrid World: At the End of the Second Millennium of the Christian Era; Predatory Commercialization and Communalism in India; Multiculturalism, Governance and the Indian Bourgeoisie; Index