1st Edition
Politics and Left Unity in India The United Front in Late Colonial India
By William F. Kuracina
Copyright 2018
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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The historical assessments of Left unity in 1930s India misrepresent activities designed to achieve unity. The common treatment of the relationship between Indian socialists and communists emphasizes disunity and the inability to find common ground. Scholarly discussions about unity in fact highlight its impracticality and the inevitability of its failure. This book proposes that during this... Read more
Introduction
1. Foundations of the United Front
2. United Front as Mass Activism
3. United Front within the Congress
4. Congress as United Front
5. Conflict about Unity
6. "Unity in action" and the "fighting alliance"
7. Twilight of the United Front
8. The "Pioneers of Unity"
Biography
William F. Kuracina is Head of the History Department at Texas A&M University–Commerce, US. He is the author of The State and Governance in India: The Congress Ideal, also published by Routledge (2010).
