1st Edition

M. N. Roy Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism

By Kris Manjapra Copyright 2010
228 Pages
by Routledge India

226 Pages
by Routledge India

226 Pages
by Routledge India

This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N. Roy, one of India’s most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist Party, member of the Communist International Presidium, and a major force in the rise of Indian communism, M.N. Roy was a colonial cosmopolitan icon... Read more
List of Illustrations -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Swadeshi Avant-Garde -- 2. Marxist New Time -- 3. The Transformations of M. N. Roy -- 4. Criticism and Incarceration -- 5. Interstitial Politics -- 6. Radical Humanism -- Epilogue -- References and Select Bibliography -- Index.

Biography

Kris Manjapra is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University.