Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Industrialization in India before 1947: conventional approaches and alternative perspectives; 3. Workers, trade unions and the state in colonial India; 4. Workers' politics and the mill districts of Bombay between the wars; 5. Workers, violence and the colonial state: representation, repression and resistance; 6. Police and public order in Bombay, 1880–1947; 7. Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896–1914; 8. Indian nationalism, 1914–47: Gandhian rhetoric, the Congress and the working classes; 9. South Asia and world capitalism: towards a social history of labour; Bibliography; Index.

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A major re-appraisal of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence.

Reviews

"...I recommend highly Imperial Power and Popular Politics to the readers of Labor History. mperial Power and Popular Politics is stimulating history that is suggestive and substantively satisfying." Ian J. Kerr, Labor History "These essays confirm the productive nature of the innovative analytical move that Chandavarkar made in enlarging the scope of Indian labor history to include the politics of the neighborhood and the city." Dipesh Chakrabarty, American Historical Review "...a stimulating reassessment of the interplay between class relations and political discourse in the India of the Raj." Thomas R. Metcalf, Journal of Interdisciplinary History