Unish Shotoke Banglar Shromik Itihaser Koyekti Dik: Duti Porjacholona [Hardcover]

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. The essay asks pertinent questions about the morality of labour, history of peasant revolts, capitalist intervention, religious discrimination among labourers etc.

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Dipesh Chakrabarty(born 1948) studied Physics at Presidency College, Calcutta, and Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He received a PhD in History from Australian National Univerl#&