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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2006

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
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Abstract

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The discussion of labour history in South Asia was first shaped in the early twentieth century by the hands of the members of a very limited intelligentsia who assumed an adversarial role in relation to capital and colonial state power. Many of them happened to be activists and leaders in the organizations and protest movements of the working classes. Their constituents, sections of the labouring poor, were particularly underprivileged in the general context of economic underdevelopment and low per capita GNP in South Asia.

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Research Article
Information
International Review of Social History , Volume 51 , Issue S14 , December 2006 , pp. 7 - 19
Copyright
2006 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Footnotes

The author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Marcel van der Linden for his suggestions and comments on this essay.