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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2010
Print publication year:
2009
Online ISBN:
9780511642036
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511642036
Subjects:
Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Twentieth Century Regional History
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Book description

Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century. He died sadly young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial collection of unpublished lectures, papers and articles. These have now been assembled and edited by Jennifer Davis, Gordon Johnson and David Washbrook, and their appearance will be widely welcomed by large numbers of scholars of Indian history, politics and society. The essays centre around three major themes: the city of Bombay, Indian politics and society, and Indian historiography. Each manifests Dr Chandavarkar's hallmark historical powers of imaginative empirical richness, analytic acuity and expository elegance, and the collection as a whole will make both a major contribution to the historiography of modern India, and a worthy memorial to a major scholar.

Reviews

'Overall, this is an important, provocative and highly impressive collection. it appears even more impressive when we consider that it consists almost entirely of unpublished, semi-published and unfinished papers left by Chandavarkar at the time of death.'

Source: The Journal of Urban History

'All the essays in the volume are alive with Chandavarkar's voice; his gentle intellectual power and soft revolutionary influence. They issue a timely challenge to South-Asianists of all stripes as well as a new generation of scholars to think across ossifying disciplinary boundaries and thought-clogging accepted intellectual discourses to reanimate the study of South Asian society.'

Source: The Journal of Asian Studies

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Contents

Contents
References
Bibliography of the published works of Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
BOOKS
Chandavarkar, RajnayaranThe Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850–1950. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘“Strangers in the Land”: India and the British since the Late Nineteenth Century’, in Bayly, C. A. (ed.), The Raj: India and the British, 1600–1947. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1990.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Workers’ Resistance and the Rationalization of Work in Bombay between the Wars', in Haynes, D. and Prakash, G. (eds.), Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia. Oxford University Press and University of California Press, 1991.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Plague Panic and Epidemic Politics in India, 1896–1914’, in Ranger, T. and Slack, P. (eds.), Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perceptions of Pestilence. Cambridge University Press: Past and Present, 1992.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Nationalism, Ethnicity and the Working Classes in India, 1870–1947’, in Berger, Stefan and Smith, Angel (eds.), Nationalism, Labour, and Ethnicity, 1870–1939. Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 242–69.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Questions of Class: The General Strikes in Bombay, 1928–29’, in Parry, Jonathan P., Breman, Jan and Kapadia, Karin (eds.), The Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour. New Delhi and London: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 205–37. Published simultaneously in Contributions to Indian Sociology, 33, 1 and 2, 1999.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘“The Making of the Working Class”: E. P. Thompson and Indian History’, in Chaturvedi, V. (ed.), Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London: Verso, 2000, pp. 50–71. (Reprint of previously published article.)
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Imperialism and the European Empires’, in Jackson, J. (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe, 1900–1945. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘From Neighbourhood to Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Left in Bombay's Girangaon in the Twentieth Century’, in Adarkar, Neera and Menon, Meena, One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices: The Millworkers of Girangaon: An Oral History. Calcutta: Seagull, 2004.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Workers’ Politics and the Mill Districts of Bombay between the Wars', Modern Asian Studies, special issue, 15, 3 (July 1981), 603–47. Also published in Alavi, H. and Harriss, J. (eds.), The Sociology of Development in South Asia: Selected Readings (London: Macmillan, 1989) and in translation in Purusartha, special issue (Paris, 1992).
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Industrialization in India: Conventional Approaches and Alternative Perspectives’, Modern Asian Studies, special issue, 19, 3 (July 1985), 623–67. Also published in O'Brien, P. (ed.), Industrialization: Critical Perspectives (London: Routledge, 1998) and in translation in Lardinois, R. (ed.), L'Inde: études de sciences sociales et anthropologie (Paris, 1989).
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘From Communism to Social Democracy: The Rise and Resilience of Communist Parties in India, 1920–1995’, Science and Society, 61, 1 (1997), 99–106.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘“The Making of the Working Class”: E. P. Thompson and Indian History’, History Workshop Journal, 43 (Spring 1997), 177–96.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Questions of Class: The General Strikes in Bombay, 1928–29’, special issue of Contributions to Indian Sociology, 33, 1 and 2 (1999), 205–37.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Customs of Governance: Colonialism and Democracy in Twentieth Century India’, Modern Asian Studies, 41, 3 (2007).
REVIEW ARTICLES
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Midnight's Children Come to Power’, London Review of Books (lead article), 30 March 1989.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘India for the English’, London Review of Books (5 March 1990); reprinted in The Times of India Review of Books, 1, 1 (August/September 1990).
OTHER OUTPUT
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Tipoo's Tiger’, film for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Nehru Gallery of Indian Art, 1990.
Chandavarkar, Rajnayaran, ‘Political Ties that Heal and Bind’, The Guardian, 22 May 1991.

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