1st Edition
Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory The Left in South India
Introduction. 1. Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Theory and Communism 2. Socialist Beginnings 3. Towards Communism 4. Questioning Autonomy: Relinking Art and Life 5. The Rise of the Popular in Culture 6. Redistribution and Recognition: The Land Reforms and the Workers’ Act 7. Reconstituting the Political: The People’s Plan 8. The Incomplete National-Popular. Conclusion.
Biography
Nissim Mannathukkaren is Associate Professor in the International Development Studies Department at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the author of the book The Rupture with Memory: Derrida and the Specters that Haunt Marxism (2006). His research has been published in journals such as Citizenship Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Third World Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Critical Realism, International Journal of the History of Sport, Dialectical Anthropology, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Sikh Formations. He is a regular op-ed contributor to the English-language press in India.
