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In this book, Das presents a class-based perspective on the economic and political situation in contemporary India in a globalizing world. It deals with the specificities of India’s capitalism and neoliberalism, as well as poverty/inequality, geographically uneven development, technological change, and export-oriented, nature-dependent production. The book also deals with Left-led struggles in the form of the Naxalite/Maoist movement and trade-union strikes, and presents a non-sectarian Left critique of the Left. It also discusses the politics of the Right expressed as fascistic tendencies, and the question of what is to be done.
The book applies abstract theoretical ideas to the concrete situation in India, which, in turn, inspires rethinking of theory. Das unabashedly shows the relevance of class theory that takes seriously the matter of oppression/domination of religious minorities and lower castes.
The book applies abstract theoretical ideas to the concrete situation in India, which, in turn, inspires rethinking of theory. Das unabashedly shows the relevance of class theory that takes seriously the matter of oppression/domination of religious minorities and lower castes.
Price: $332.00
Pages: 658
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
05 March 2020
ISBN: 9789004415553
Format: Hardcover
"This book argues that Indian society is characterized by a complex of forces such as low labor productivity in export-oriented and local subsistence production. The majority of people live in abject poverty. These forces and their economic result have to be understood via class analysis—how large groups of people relate to each other and to nature. Raju Das provides an extensive theoretical and empirical version of this analysis—the best ever written so far."
— Richard Peet, Clark University, USA, in: Critical Sociology 47(6), pp. 1047-1048
"This book is a magisterial examination by Raju J Das of the current political and economic dynamics in India, and confirms his place as one of the leading social scientists contributing to our understanding of what is really happening on the subcontinent. After the hiatus of the cultural turn, this volume returns the focus once more to where it should be: a materialist approach based on political economy and class analysis. As such, it is situated firmly within the intellectual tradition of the best scholarship about India, as exemplified in the earlier mode of production debate. It will surely define how the Indian development path is studied and argued over for the foreseeable future."
— Tom Brass, formerly of SPS, Cambridge University, and Editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies
— Richard Peet, Clark University, USA, in: Critical Sociology 47(6), pp. 1047-1048
"This book is a magisterial examination by Raju J Das of the current political and economic dynamics in India, and confirms his place as one of the leading social scientists contributing to our understanding of what is really happening on the subcontinent. After the hiatus of the cultural turn, this volume returns the focus once more to where it should be: a materialist approach based on political economy and class analysis. As such, it is situated firmly within the intellectual tradition of the best scholarship about India, as exemplified in the earlier mode of production debate. It will surely define how the Indian development path is studied and argued over for the foreseeable future."
— Tom Brass, formerly of SPS, Cambridge University, and Editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies
Raju J. Das holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Columbus, and is currently a Professor at York University, Toronto. He is the author of Marxist class theory for a sceptical world (Brill, 2017).